Saving Grace

Chapter 21

Prom was a night for me to remember. After only an hour or so, I was being swept off my feet. Colt was an amazing dancer. I totally sucked it up.

"This can't be fun for you, Colt. I'm slowing you down in everything."

"I am having fun. And you don't slow me down. You make this night amazing. I'll go get something to drink. Fruit punch okay?"

"Yes."

As soon as he walked away, Queen King was by my side.

"Well if it isn't little Miss Sophomore. This is a dance for Juniors and Seniors only."

"I was asked by a Junior. Why do you care?"

"Because Colt was mine first! And some new girl walks in and ruins everything!"

"Get away from her Stella. We're done so stop obsessing over it."
Colt was back! And just in time.

"Colt! C'mon. I was just messing with her."

"Sure. Let's go Gracie."

"Gladly." I was probably being childish, but as we walked off I turned my head and stuck my tongue out at her.

Other than that little hitch, I had a blast and so did Colt. Every once and while there would be a slow dance. I was falling for him all over again.

Prom ended at 11:00 so almost everyone headed to Colt's for his big After-Party.

"I had fun tonight." We both said once we were alone in the limousine.

"I don't feel like I should've come. Like I was the outcast. You should've been with your friends and I kept you from doing that just because I was too shy to talk to anyone."

"Grace! How many times do I have to say that you didn't ruin anything for me! I love you way too much to care!"

"Colt, you can't always be there for me, caring about me. There may and will come a day when you won't be able to be there for me."

"Why would you even say that? Maybe I do want to be there for you."

"No you don't Colt. You think you do, but you don't. I'm sorry but I'm thinking about reality not some stupid fantasy in my head."

"Stop thinking that way. Why would you want to think that way?"

"I think the way I do because I don't want to get hurt. I don't want to fall down and break apart." I thought of my dream where Stella was holding a glass a ball, me, and dropped it shattering it to a non-repairable state. "I'm afraid, Colt. I'm afraid that I will fall and break and nothing will ever be able to fix me."

"There's nothing you should be afraid of. I won't let anything happen to you. You're perfectly safe."

"You've already let something happen to me. You let me fall. Fall madly in love you. I'm afraid I'm going to lose you in an instant." I was crying, probably messing my makeup up, but it's now or never to do this. "I'm like a glass ball. Fragile. And it's like that glass ball is now in your hands."

"I promise not to ever break you or drop you. I promise I will hold into you forever. I love you."

"I love you too."

At Colt's party, everyone was having an incredible time. I didn't want the night to end. I didn't want to go back to reality. But I knew I had to.

Colt drove me home at 1:30 AM. I was feeling so devastated and I didn't know why. I was having so much fun a moment ago. What happened to me?