Weirdo's (TQG Benny Watts) {Tbs}

Part 16

I sat on my bed contemplating everything and nothing, I looked at the little dress erica bought for me, she went out and got me this puffy, thrilly blue dress I know she was offering the dress I would wear to prom but... I hated the damn thing. but I had gone through all my dresses and somehow I didn't have any that I hadn't already worn! I sat up and pouted trying to think

"Hey, little spider? you okay?" My dad asks popping his head around the door

"Fine. trying to be... creative"

"you can't force creativity y/n" he says "You trying to think about your prom dress?"

"umm hummm" I nodded

"well? what are your colours gonna be?"

"I think black. It's the only thing benny has that looks decent"

"so you're going with benny?"

"I am" I nodded

"As... friends or something else?"

"else" I smiled

"You know... I might have something that could be helpful" he says "One moment"

I was confused as he headed downstairs for a moment returning with a battered old box, sitting it on my bed

"What is this?" I asked

"This... was your mothers," he says opening the box revealing a peach pink dress with barely much structure or petticoats to speak of the pink hadn't aged well, and I could spot a few wholes in the strange art deco lace, "it's what she wore when we got married at the courthouse, just before you where born, I was... saving it for when you got married, but the moths have been at it and the fabrics starting to turn, besides I know you will want to make yourself the most beautiful gown in the world if you ever get married,"

"Dad... I can't -"

"Please, it's no good to anyone sitting in a box as moth food. use your magic to make it yours. she would have wanted that" he says handing it over to me

I pulled it completely from the box, it hit the floor, this long pleated dress with this strange lace over it all from neck to wrists, "I can't- even if I did it would be... far to nice for the likes of some stupid school dance. I'll be overdressed"

"you won't be overdressed. you'll be better dressed than the rest of the girls there. you have to stop comparing yourself to them, little spider, thinking you need to be this little crab under the rocks to stay out of sight and stay quiet. we only live this life once y/n huddling away from it all will just make it all pass so much slower, and so much sadder. Take moments by the throat. grab them all and remember your my little spider the world is yours to take and you can do whatever you want to it. just like this dress. I'll leave you to your work" he says giving my head a kiss.