Months passed and soon, I was going to the winter gala where the students were noticed for sports and any good things they did at the school. Of course when I came here I decided to join the tennis team which was hard but fun. Getting ready for the ball was crazy. I decided to wear a black gown with a red wine color silk bow around the waist. The dress of course was strapless and my hair had to be up in a style so I just put it up in a bun and let my bangs out. I put minimal make up on and soon I was ready to go. I grabbed the gloves I had to wear and went downstairs to see Chris and Fuchsia, and Eli and his girlfriend dressed up. What was crazy is she was wearing this short tight skimpy dress so you could tell she wasn’t from our school. She stood out like a sore thumb.
“Oh my gosh Lia, you look beautiful” Terry said hugging me. This boy is like a brother to me.
“Thank you” I smiled.
“You’re forgetting something” Chris said.
“Really what?”
“This” He gave me a necklace that had my birthstone on it. I smiled and hugged him tightly.
“Thank you so much” I said wiping the tears out of my eyes. I felt my phone vibrate and I stopped the hug. I looked at my phone as I wiped my eyes.
“Oh, Char is here, she was wondering if we could pick her up since it’s on the way to the school?”
“Yeah, come on lets go then” Chris said holding the door open for us girls and following behind. Terry yelled something out of the house but I couldn’t hear him. As soon as we pulled up, I could tell that was Char. She was wearing a black and silver cocktail dress and her hair was out and wavy. She was holding something in her hands.
“Hey girl” I said opening the car door for her.
“Hey what’s up?”
“Nothing much” I hugged her as she sat beside me.
“I love your dress”
“I should say the same thing, this dress is hot”
“You know, hot people have to wear hot stuff, what’s crazy is I just wore this to homecoming and now I’m wearing this today” I laughed because of the fact she never wears stuff a second time.
“True” I said agreeing with her. “Recycling finally”
“Yeah, and saving my money finally” We laughed and talked the whole ride to the gala. When we got there, we found a table that we all could sit at. The music was bumping and people were ordering what they wanted to eat. I loved the colors they chose, it went with the theme masquerade. I of course bought my own mask while others had to buy one in order to get into the gala. The colors were black, dark purple, a red wine color and Fuchsia. We sat at the table talking and then finally, my song Dance by big Sean came on and of course my friend and I had to go and dance. I left the table and we started booty bouncing in our dresses. I mean hey, I had a poofy dress on but you could still see my ass jumping. Her on the other hand, you could see all that since she had a straight dress that hugged her body. As we danced 2 guys came behind each of t=us and we started to throw it back like what we did when we were in Jersey. Finally the song ended and we were about to go sit down when the guy I danced with stopped me.
“Hold on were just getting this party started” He said shooting me a killer smile. I saw him around school before once but never again. “Hi, I’m Manny” I the guy said.
“I’m Lianna”
“So Lianna, are you gonna dance with me again or go sit down and be a prude?”
“Prude? Are you from jersey?”
“Nah, I stay out there though”
“Oh” I smiled. Luckily, the next song that came on was Amen by Meek Mill and you know I love this song. We were dancing and of course as we were having fun, the principle got on the mic. And we all had to go to our seats. We separated and soon she was calling our names to get our awards. I won 2 plaques for tennis, winning the county finals and the state finals. Then I won an award for extracurricular activities I did. Eli of course won an award for basketball and then Manny won like most of the awards there just for being the best wide receiver in football, forward on basketball, doing community service, and he also got a full scholarship to the school of his choice. I was shocked at how good he was.
Soon, the whole gala was over and we were leaving the party. Chardonnay got the boys number and couldn’t stop texting him. As we were walking towards the car, I heard someone call my name. I turned around to see Manny.
“Hey what’s up?” I asked.
“I was wondering if I can have your number and maybe we could talk” He said smiling. When I tell you his smile made my heart stop it was like that beautiful.
“Uh sure” The whole time I gave him my number, I had the feeling someone was staring me down.
“Thank you, I’ll text you tonight” He gave me a hug and winked as he walked away. He smelled like Hollister cologne.
“Lia, I’m not going home so Eli said hell drop you and your friend off” Chris said halfway in and out of the car.
“Okay that’s fine” I said rolling my eyes. Chris drove off as Char and I got into the backseat of Eli’s car. I was aggravated. The whole ride Eli and Tina was holding hands. We dropped Char off at the train station and I got out of the car to hug her and tell her to text me later. When I got back, I could tell something happened because both Eli and Tina were acting weird.
“So uh, I saw you talking to Manny” He said out of the blue.
“Yup” I looked out of the window.
“So what’s up, yall go out now or something?”
“Or something” I said staring at the houses pass.
“Why do you care Eli?” Tina asked sapping her head towards him.
“I just wanted to know” Eli said in defense. She said Mmhmm and went back to her cell phone. I had to surpass a laugh until we dropped her off. As soon as she shut the door I was dien. He looked at me from the rearview mirror but I didn’t give a fuck. I looked down at my phone that vibrated and it was Manny. I smiled at his message and saved his number into my phone.
