Should I Love You?

Chapter 25

I'm laying down with Opal. We're both just staring at the ceiling. She lays on her side facing me.

"How do you think the author is gonna have Ian ask you to prom?"

"However Ian wants too."

"Ain't it weird?"

"What?"

"Well. Our thoughts... They aren't are own. If this really is a book. That means... someone's writing how we think, how we act, what we say. We live our whole lives thinking its all our own, but its an author."

"What if this isn't a book?"

She lifts up. "It is. I feel like. Everything that's happening... Only happens in books. There's no way the schools fuckboi would just drop his ways for a girl."

I stare at Opal. I look at my phone. Ian hasn't tried contacting me all day... No text. No call. I sigh.

I hear my phone ring. I look. Ian... Oh now he calls.

"Hello?" I say.

"Come to the park really quick. Well follow Opal." He hangs up.

I look at my phone. I hear Opal phone vibrate. She smiles.

"Follow me!"

She grabs my hand and starts pulling me.

"Opal. I'm not in proper clothes." I say.

I'm wearing really short shorts and a tank top. She looks. She grabs a dress from her closet and hands it to me. I sigh. I pull it on and she pulls me.

"I'm only wearing this because I don't feel like changing." I say.

I put on my shoes and let Opal continue to pull me. My hair isn't even done. I look like literal trash.

She pulls me to a park and goes straight to the garden. I see Ian talking to Jen. I notice Luke and Kyle sitting on a random bench. Oh my gosh. Why is everyone here?

"We're here!" Opal says.  Opal looks at me. "One sec."

She takes my hair out the bun and fixes it a little bit.

"Okay. We're good."

Ian takes a deep breath. He walks up to me.

"Cazey. I have never been as happy as I am with you. So."

He looks at Kyle and Luke. They stand up and hold up a posterboard that says 'will you go to prom with me?'

I smile. I walk up to it. I look at the border and notice it's picture of me and Ian together.

"Some of these are when I hated you." I say.

I look at Ian and he's holding a bouquet of flowers in one hand and a marker in the other one. I smile and grab the marker. I bend down and check the box next to yes. I turn around and look at him. He smiles and hugs me. I laugh.

Jen claps.  "I got it on recording!"

"So wait... Did you guys take these pictures?" I ask.

"Yes." They all say.

"But... Kyle and Luke was playing. And Jen and Opal was cheering when we kissed at the football game." I say. Looking at the photo.

"I had to do it quickly." Opal says. "But I made sure I got it."

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Im sitting with Opal in her room. I already took the dress off. I'm staring at the pictures.

"I swear. I didn't even know you guys were watching in half of these." I say. Laughing. "Look how annoyed I am in that one." I look at a different one. "This was when I twisted my ankle and he kept following me everywhere."

She looks and laughs. "Kyle and Luke took some of those. So I didn't know some of these existed."

"You guys are stalkers."

"We should go shopping for your dres-"

She's interrupted by her phone. She shows me the message.

Kyle: Look outside.

I get up and go out to her patio. I see Kyle, Luke and Ian. Soon Opal comes out with me.

"Your mom won't let me in. And I think your dad is gonna kill me soon. So I wanna make this quick." Kyle says. Looking at her front door then back up.

I smile. "I feel like Romeo and Juliet." I say.

Opal smacks my arm. "What do you wanna ask?"

"Will you go to prom with me? Like not as a date. But like Ian wants someone to go with and I don't wanna be a third wheel... So I thought Opal might wanna go." He says.

I smile. "Awe. He's nervous. So cute."

"Yes. I'll go with you." Opal says.

I hear her door open.

"What do you kids want?!" Her dad yells.

Kyle and Luke get in Ian's car. Ian looks up at me.

"Nice sleep clothes." He says.

I look at my outfit. "Pervert!!!" I yell.

"Are you creeping on these girls?"

Ian runs and gets in his car. I see her dad run out with a baseball bat. He looks back up. 

"You girls okay?"

I smile.

Opal laughs. "Yeah dad were okay." Opal says.

We both go back inside. I sit with Opal on her bed.

"Prom dresses. Let's go this weekend!!" She yells.