The Project

Prom-ise

Prom had passed by in a blur of coloured chiffon and suits, laughter and dancing, friends and their partners spinning past on a crowded dance floor like spinning tops until they fell exhausted into chairs at the side. All evening had been like a fairytale, but for me, the best was yet to come.
He came over to my table where i sat with my friends and their boyfriends, his stride powerful, completely unlike his usual stance. He walked straight up to the table and nearly knocked the drinks over because he tripped over her chair leg.
The guys all started laughing and the girls joined in nervously. His normally doe-like eyes smouldered darkly, instantly silencing the laughter. This wasn't normal. He turned to face me, his dark hair flopping over his left eye.
"Lilly," he struggled " I was wondering, well if you would dan-. No, I mean, umm, go out with me?"
I was shocked, and evidently, everyone else was too. I knew they would laugh if I said yes, but I wanted to so badly. I had struggled to keep my emotions in check for years, so the people who are now my friends would accept me, but now I realised I had wasted my time. These people were turning me into another barbie-fied gossip-fed clone. Looking at his face now, I knew that it was time to break the cycle.

As I stared into his desperate face, I closed my eyes and said the word I had wanted to say ever since I met him:
"Yes."
Silence. Then the laughter began. Chloèy gasped, "Lils, you cannot be serious, like, he is such a complete loser!". "Yeah!"s,"that's,like, so true"s and "what are you thinking?!?"s erupted from around the table, but I stood up and my glare silenced them all.
"Yes, I'm going to go out with Ben. So what. Why would you even care!" I growled. "Lils-" Chloèy began, "you can have nothing to say to me worth listening to Chloèy. I've heard you all talking about me, about your little 'project'! When you started talking to me, surrounding me in your world, I should have known better.", my voice raising, "I know what you've been planning! How you will set me up with that fuckboy Damien and solve two problems to your status with one easy solution. Well, sorry to spoil your fun, but it's OVER. I'm not your little 'project' Lils anymore! Im Becca, I'm my own person, and I'm going out with Ben!"
They stared, and started whispering amongst themselves, all apart from Chloèy who had turned bright red, and was staring daggers at me and Ben. I turned to walk away and found out why. The entire, glittering ballroom was deadly silent. And everyone was watching me.
Ben's green eyes flashed towards me, searchingly, "Hey, Becky, wanna quit this plastic princess party?"
I smiled, a warm glow bubbling through me,
"I thought you'd never ask!"

And as we ran out of the ballroom, I said, "Promise me that you'll forgive me for what I've said, please Ben, I'm so sorry-"
"Of course I forgive you! Your my Becky now and I've wanted this for so long, so badly, you've made me so happy and there's nothing to apologise for!
We ran out of the hotel doors into the last glowing threads of sunlight, and waved down a taxi, and as we bundled in, I felt like I was leaving the past behind in that ballroom and stepping into the future.

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Authors note-

Hello there, this is hopefully my first original bit of work ( sorry if you have read something or written something like it ) so I hope that you like it!

Someone might have noticed that her name changes in this chapter, but all will be revealed!

God that sounds so weird. Sorry.
This pile of crap is dedicated to my fellow idiots Lord-ofthe-Fandoms , jessicaaball ,  ryantrbl , dippy8390 &
X_JustThisFangirl ! Thanks guys! Now thanks to you I will never sleep again.