Overturn ● Emblem3

Thirty-one - "This is our night"

I'm so so sorry for the late update but i've been really busy with school that I barely have time to write. But here's an extremely long chapter just to compensate the long wait! You might get emotional by the end of it :/

(This is not edited, I'll come back here later to fix the errors)

- Sorry for any grammar errors -

Madison’s POV

“Oh god, I’m scared”

“Scared of what? It’s just a box” Carol says pointing to the big blue box I have in front of me. It has a white tie wrapping around it and it looks so pretty. But I’m scared of what’s inside…

“Yeah, with a dress picked by Wes. You know what that means? He knows nothing about girly stuff, he doesn’t know how to pick a dress. I don’t know how to pick a dress, how does he?” I say running my fingers on the lines of the box. Wes offered himself to pick out a dress for me to wear at the summer ball tonight. At the time my answer was quick and with no hesitation but now, I’m afraid I did the wrong thing by agreeing. I mean, I’m also afraid, not just because of the piece of fabric that it’s inside this box but because I don’t know what to expect when I walk in the ball room. Everything will remind me of the biggest heart break of my life. I know Wes is different; he would never do the same as Chad did but it’s normal that I feel this insecurity.

“C’mon open that thing!” Carol’s too excited to know what’s inside. She’s jumping up and down waiting for me to finally open it. I laugh and then take a deep breath and prepare myself for what he chose me. I put both of my hands on either sides of the box and slowly lift the cover up. As soon as the cover is on the level of my eyes, I see white paper, I don’t see a dress yet, I suppose it’s under it. But, there’s something on the side. It seems like a letter or something. It’s pink so it really catches my eye. Carol takes it out and starts opening it.

“What are you doing? That’s mine you know” I say to her while she hides the letter under her jacket. I grab her arms and stop her from reading it. When I finally reach it she rolls her eyes at me.

“You suck” she says, dragging her feet to the bottom of the bed and sitting there. She crosses her arms over her chest and stares at me, waiting for me to read it out loud.

“What?” I ask. I finish unwrapping the letter since it’s already half opened and a white paper comes from within. I notice Wesley’s handwriting which it’s quite hard to decode. I start reading but I’m immediately stopped by Carol who’s now clearing her throat making me look at her.

“Read it” she says.

“I’m trying” I respond, turning my eyes back to the letter.

“Out loud” she says again with a different voice tone while leaning her back down on the bed. I roll my eyes, she’s so…ugh, she’s so my best friend.

“Okay bitch” I walk to the chair in front of my desk and sit there. I notice something coming from the paper, it smells nice. I bring it closer to my nose and yeah, it has Wesley’s perfume. Did he really put perfume on this? I’m impressed, it seems that this is really a big deal to him, going to this formal with me.

“What the fuck are you doing?” Carol’s looking at me smelling the letter with her head resting on the covers of the bed. She has a confused expression on her face.

“This smells go-“

“Okay you know what, I don’t care, just read it” she finishes talking and turns her face up to the ceiling, closing her eyes.