Girls in my basement

Ian's class has a group science project that is due this Thursday - don't even get me started on when I found out about it.  Anyhoo, it is a large group project with different pieces to it.  Right now there are 4 girls and 2 boys in the basement.....pre-teenage girls and boys.  Everything filters into my office from below and the conversations are SO interesting.  Are they getting work done?  Sort of.  But mostly they are talking about who likes who and who is going out with who.  I am so not ready for this stage of my life.  I am a perpetual teenager myself, as most of you can attest to.  How can there be pre-teens in my own basement?  What a day it has been.  Why can't they go back to just eating paste and having cooties?