Pretty Ugly

Prom's and Confession's

When I get there it looks like Jonny was just about to leave.

Everybody parts ways so that we could get to each other.

"You came!" Jonny says.

"Of course I came!" I tell him.

"So where do we go from here?!" he asks me.

"I don't know but wherever it is, it's going to be together!" I tell him.

"Together?!" he says.

"Together Jonny, plain and simple." I say to him.

He grabs me and kisses me and everyone coo's and cheers.

Then Ms. Strict walk's in.

"Alright! No more Ms. Nice Guy!" she says.

Delilah's POV

The Exposé crew walks in and swarms me.

"Alright Delilah, the jig is up. It's time to tell everyone why you aren't giving Jonny the civil rights every human alive... or dead deserve!" Eddie says holding the mic up to my mouth.

I snatch it from him and turn to the camera.

"It's not about civil rights, it's about protecting this country and making the world a better place. As Vice President Nixon said, (got cut off)!" Eddie snatches the microphone from me.

"I know why you hate Jonny Warner, why don't you just tell the truth!" Eddie says.

Everybody starts swarming me and I don't have anywhere to turn.

"Alright! Alright! I'll tell you everything!" I yell trying to get them away from me.

A boy on the stage hands me a microphone.

"It was years ago, I blush to say how many! My mother warned me about hanging out with boys from 'the wrong side of the tracks', but did I listen? NO!" I say.

"I remember like it was yesterday!" Eddie says.

All the students gasp.

"That's right! Eddie wanted to take me to the prom! But if I couldn't go with him, I wasn't going at all! So I snuck out, and met up with him. We drove around all night, we ended up parking off of old highway 3, between the burmashade signs. It was a flurry of hot, sweaty, sorted, PASSION!!! Five minutes had ruined my life forever!" I say.

"Five minutes?!" the staff and students around the room ask.

"It was young!" Eddie says.

Everyone laughs.

"I was very young!!!" Eddie says blushing from embarrassment.

"I'll always remember the night I missed my senior prom Toffee, because that's the night MY CHILD WAS CONCIEVED!" I say ashamed.

"When my parents learned the truth, they sent me to a home for unwed mothers in the wilds of Santa Fe! I lost EVERYTHING! That's why Toffee, I will not let you make the same mistakes! I say.

"So come on corpse boy! You've got an appointment in hell, and I'll take you there myself, IF I HAVE TO!" I say halfway dragging him out of the room.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you! Eddie says angrily.

"You're mad Flagranté! Why?" I ask him.

"Because you'll never be able to live with yourself having thrown out, your own son!" he says seriously and everyone gasps.

"Mom?" Jonny says in a childlike voice.

"My baby?!" I say.

"My own rotted flesh and blood?!"

I gasp

"But how?" I ask Eddie.

"Well I took one good look at Jonny here and underneath all of the goo I recognized something. I did a little digging in Our Lady of Divine Masochism. A few well greased palms, and a couple of soon to be broken promises, and I had my proof!" Eddie explains.

"Dad?" Jonny says running over to Eddie and shaking his hand but Eddie pulls him into a hug.

"Oh, Jonny! Well I suppose this changes everything!" I say.

"I'm still dead!" Jonny says.

"Details, details! Hey, what do you say next week we throw you a fancy funeral?!" I say.

"Oh, I don't know!" Jonny says moving away from me.

"Ice cream! Any flavor you want?" I say trying to bargain with him

"And cake? Can we have cake too?!" he asks.

I chuckle a little bit.

"Anything for, mommy's little corpse!" I say.

All of a sudden Jonny turns around and grabs me in a big hug and I can't explain what I felt but it just warmed my heart and melted away all of the hurt and anger I felt.

"Oh I love my job! Mother and son reunited, and daddy makes three!" Eddie says more like a question than a statement.

I turn around.

"What?!" I ask.

"What do you say Delilah, one big nuclear family!" Eddie says.

"Oh Eddie!" I say running over to him.

He dips me Tango style and kisses me. When he lifts me back up Toffee immediately asks me.

"And Jonny? Can he come back?!" she says.

"Well of course he can! Now what is everyone standing around for, after all this is a prom!" I say excitedly and the deejay starts the music back up.