Princess of the Nothings

My name is Ariana, and yesterday I was officially named Princess of the Nothings.

It was the school dance. I had the prettiest baby blue dress, a HOT date, and I had not fallen over anything all day! (YAY ME!!) I'm prone to falling, tripping, scraping, hurting, injuring-

Okay, NOT the point. Anyway, my day had been just- WONDERFUL. "Wanna dance?" Hunter asked, his dimple so deep and so far in his face that I could eat pudding out of it. Omigod, YES!! "Sure," I said all calmly, though I was a jumping bucket of nothingness inside (Which is what I would become even more of later). "You look really pretty," he said. "You do too." I said. "HANDSOME! I mean, not that your face isn't pretty but, that expression is meant for-" OH MY GOD HE WAS LOOKING AT ME LIKE I WAS THE DUMBEST THING EVER!!!! Why was I so stupid? WHY?!! "You're so cute," he laughed. I was cute? I WAS CUTE!! "Well, you are too," I said. He laughed again. Was he laughing at me? But he just called me cute! Then he looked like, SUPERSERIOUS. "You don't think I'm laughing at you, do you?" he asked. "NO!" I screamed.

Awkard silence and stares....

"Um, no.. Of course not." I said. He smiled. "I really LIKE you." he said. He emphasized the word like. Like he really, really LOVED me!! SQUEEAAALLL! His blue eyes were SO, um, BLUE. "Best. Day. Ever." I said, not really meaning for anyone to hear it, but obviously Hunter did. "Mine too," he said. I laid my head on his chest, and he laid his chin on my head. We danced silently, me praying that this night would NOT end, which it eventually would. Besides- who was the princess of this dance? I had been nominated.

"And its time to announce today's princess!" Olivia Schulden, a girl on the event comittee said. "And it is...."

My heart was pumping. Hunter leaned in real close...

"Is...."

He puckered out his cute lips.

"IS....."

"We got closer and closer.....

"Ariana Jones!"

"WHAT?!" I asked, pulling away from Hunter. "What?" Hunter asked, looking at Olivia. "What?" the whole room echoed, distracted from everything. Olivia glanced down at her card again. "Yep, that's right," she said, the card now facing everyone. "Ariana Jones," I walked to the stage, face gleaming, while everyone clapped. I stood on stage, crown on my head, Hunter in my heart. He smiled at me with a thumbs-up sign. I looked straight in his eyes, blew him a kiss, and winked. He caught it and sighed dreamily. SQUEEEAAAALLL!

As I looked into the crowd, I saw Catee and her friend Joslyn giggle and run backstage. I ignored them. Olivia handed me the microphone and stepped back. "Um, I just wanted to say that-"

WOOSH! That was all I heard. I saw red, I felt wet and sticky. My dress had red liquid all over it. I heard a laugh and then another. I turned around and saw Catee and Joslyn with an empty punch bowl. "Seeing red?" Catee asked.

My face turned red. I heard, a laugh, then another, and then the whole room was laughing. At me. Hunter refused to meet my eyes. He just looked down. Then he faced me, and I could see how sad his eyes were. How sorry. "This girl is officially our new Princess of the Nothings!" Catee said, taking the mic from me. "How embarrassing." she laughed.

Princess of the Nothings started 3 years ago when a girl in 6th grade fell straight through the food table at her dance. Ever since then, no girl wasn't careful on dance day. If you even tripped, you'd be crowned Princess of the Nothings. "Yeah!" screamed the last girl who was crowned Princess of the Nothings, Alexa Chan. I looked at Hunter. He looked at me. Tears swelled in my eyes. I ran out the room, officially the new Princess of the Nothings.