Just Keep Swimming

Chapter 14

"Bye babe," Katie says giving Jackson a quick kiss.
"Bye," he says back.
"Don't have to much fun you two," Cameron says as we walk away.
"Will try," I reply.

We laugh until we get into the car. We turn on the radio and jam out. Then, after 10 minutes in the car. I turn the radio off. And look over at her. She's driving so she doesn't look back.

"Why did you stop the music," she asked.
"I just have to ask you a question," I reply.
"Okay," she says," ask me anything!"
"You have no idea where the prom shop is do it you?"
"NOPE!"

We laughing and then Katie stops.

"No I'm serious," she says," you might want to start up google maps."

~•~•~

We walk into "The Prom Shop" and start laughing. If you haven't notice we laugh a lot. It's kind of our thing. Anyways back to us laughing like the idiots we are.

"I can't believe we went the wrong way," I say.
"It's your fault!," she replies," it took you 7 times until you actually put the right address in."
"I didn't know there were so many "the prom places" around here," I answer.

We walk in and start looking at the knee high dresses. Then, this lady walks spots us and watches us for a minute. We're not really liking these dresses and we walk past her.

"Hi welcome to The Prom Shop," she says," do you two need help with anything?"
"Yes, actually," Katie says," I'm looking for a blue and white dress with all these designs and skin tight but puffs out at the thighs or knees."
"I have couple of dress you would probably want," she says smiling, big," what about you?"

When she asks me what I want I look up at her and I know who she is.

"Mrs. Jamison," I ask," is that you?"
"Oh my gosh Avery," she says," and Katie I didn't even notice it was you, too."
"Wait. You guys are sophomores, why are you going to junior prom?," she adds.
"Our boyfriends asked us to go with them," Katie responds.
"Oh really," she says," who's you're boyfriend?"
"Jackson."
"Oh your the one he asked on the bus," Mrs. Jamison replies," You guys are so cute together."
"My boyfriend-,"
"Oh Avery, I already know it's Cameron," she interrupts ," your mom told me!"

I forgot my mom and her were good friends.

"Anyway what dress where you looking for Avery?"
"Actually I have no idea," I say," but I know I don't want a short dress. I am 100% I want a dress that goes down to the floor."
"Okay, I have an idea," she replies," come here."

She leads us to a group of dresses and and pulls 3 blue dresses out. Katie approves to all the dresses and goes to the dressing room.

"Now let's search for some dresses!"

~•~•~

Mrs. Jamison helps me find 4 dresses I like. Red, gold, purple, and orangey pink. After we helped Katie pick out a dress, they helped me pick out mine. Katie found exactly what she wanted and I picked the orangey pink dress.
We go to the register, Mrs. Jamison checked us out, and gives us the discount and she gives us her employees discount. We pay for the dresses and grab them.
"Thanks Mrs. Jamison," we say.
"No problem girls," she replies," and also call me by my first name, Jen."
"Okay," we say waving," Bye Jen."

~•~•~

I close the trunk and carefully bring my dress into my house. Katie sits on my couch and just watches my mom's favorite show, "Teen Mom". She looks at it amazed. I walked back down stairs.

"I don't get how they do it," she says.
"What do you mean?," I sing.
After laughing, she responds with," how the mom's do it. I can't imagine being 16 and having a kid."
"I can't either," I reply," and I don't expect it happening to me."

She laughs and nods with agreement. We then leave and head to her house. Her little brother is in their living room playing Call of Duty. He doesn't look up at us or even notice us.

"Hi James," she says walking pass him.
"Hi Katie," he responds.
"Hi James," I say.
"Oh Avery," he replies, pausing his game," I didn't know you were here."

Should I mention her brother has a crush on me?

"Well, now you do," I say," and now I'm leaving."

I walk over to Katie's bedroom and I can hear James' little feet tap the floor behind me. When I walk in I see Katie hanging up her dress in her closet. She turns toward us and sees James hugging me.

"Hey, she's taken remember," Katie tells him pulling him off of me.
"Yeah, taken by me," he says winking at me," hey baby!"
"Sure keep dreaming lover boy," she says pushing him out of her room.

She closes the door and our phones go off. She grabs hers from her bed and I pull out mine of my pocket.

"Jackson?," I asks.
"Yeah," she says," Cameron?"
"Yep," I reply," they want us over now."
"Okay let's go."

We leave the house and get in her car. While we're driving we start to talk about our relationships.

"So are you and Jackson a thing now," I ask.
"Um, I guess so," she says confidently," it feels good to say that."
"To say you're in love?"
"Heck no," she replies," it's because I get to tell people about my hot boyfriend!"

We laugh so hard that it hurts. Then she asks me about Cameron and me.

"We're good," I say," we never fight and if we do it ends with tickling, kisses hugs, or movies."
"Awe you guys are so cute," she replies.
"I can't wait for us to go on double dates," I say.
"Omg that's gonna be so much fun!," she squeals.

We arrive at Jackson's house and laughs about the conversation. We walk into the house and have a fun time with our friends.

(A/N: prom dresses will be revealed on prom night.)