Young Love (Gabentine Fics)

Prom

".....and then after this, we're all going to eat at Red Lobster. Clementine, are you even listening to me?"

I'm pulled from my thoughts as Sarah huffs at me in agitation for not paying attention to her. I smile at her in the mirror as Molly curls the last piece of my hair and sticks it into place.

"Sorry, Sarah. I didn't get much sleep last night from thinking about tonight. We're going to Red Lobster after this, right?"

Sarah sighs and nods her head as Brie finishes up her hair. We had already had our makeup done earlier, had manicures and pedicures yesterday, and we just finished our hair. Now, all we have to do is change into our dresses and take pictures with our dates.

Speaking of which....

"Hey, Sarah. Where are the guys at?"

Sarah and I pay at the counter before leaving the shop and get into Sarah's little Chevy Cobalt.

"Um, I think Gabe said something about him and Duck convincing Javi about renting a limo. So, they'll meet us at your house and that's where we'll take pictures."

I nodded my head and turned on the radio as we pulled out of the parking lot.

"Peace up, A-Town down."

Sarah immediately turned the radio up and started singing along, horrendously. I laughed and joined in because tonight was our Senior prom and we're going to make it a night to remember.

"Next thing I knew, she was all up on me screaming. Yeah (yeah!) yeah (yeah!) yeah, yeah! Yeah (yeah!) yeah (yeah!) yeah, yeah!"

We pull up in my driveway and I see that Lee has already invited everyone over.

Shoot me now.

By everyone, I mean Kenny, Katjaa, Carley, Carlos, Javi, Kate, Mariana, and even David. I groan out loud and Sarah pats me on the back out of sympathy before getting out of the car. I begrudgingly slink out as well and we both walk towards the door, which is already open with Lee standing in the doorway.

"Excuse me, do you beautiful women know where these two tomboy girls are? I've been looking everywhere and just can't seem to find them."

Sarah looks confused and turns around to see who exactly he was talking to. I face palm and slap her arm as she realizes that Lee was talking to us.

"Oh, Mr. Everett. Stop it. You're going to make me blush."

Lee grins at Sarah and me as I push him aside to get into the house. Literally everyone is in our living room and all eyes are on me as I enter their line of sight. I wave sheepishly at them and they look at me in shock before Kenny starts sniffling. I can't help but to laugh when he does it and that breaks everyone out of their trance. Katjaa consoles Kenny as he mumbles something about he's getting old and his babies are going up. Sarah finally joins me and distracts them long enough for me to slip away.

I head to my bedroom and find Mariana in there, looking at a picture of me, her, and Gabe when we were younger. I smile faintly as I remember that day Javi took us to the zoo and he almost fell in the penguin habitat because he wanted to pet one.

"Don't you miss those days?"

My voice startles Mariana and she looks up at me in surprise.

"Wow. Look at you, Clem! You're beautiful!"

"Thanks, Mari."

I cross my room to get my dress out of my closet and lay it on my bed. Mariana hands me my pair of heels and I thank her before placing them on the floor by my bed.