You All Along

Chapter 20

SONGS FOR THIS CHAPTER

Diana (One Direction)

Why Don’t We Go There (One Direction)

Make Me Wanna Die (The Pretty Reckless)

All Of Me (John Legend)

Wherever you are (5SOS)

Alive (One Direction)

Rolling In The Deep (Adele)

Jar OF Hearts (Christina Perri)

Layla’s P.O.V

There we go, I thought to myself. I can’t put it in words how it felt when all of a sudden he knelt down with a promise bracelet. We’re officially together now, and in front of the whole school he asked me to be his girlfriend, I could feel the tears build up and I blinked, causing them to drop on my cheeks. “Hey, baby? Oh my god, why are you crying?!” Jeff asked rushing to my side, and cupping my cheeks. “I love you, so much,” I said and wrapped my arms around his neck, kissing him on the cheek. He carried me on his lap and circulated his arms around my waist, and kissed me on the forehead and whispered,” I love you more than anything. Believe when I say it. But now we need to eat something. I’m hungry,” he said, carrying me off his lap and stood up, pulling Akshay together with him.

“I told you, you guys are perfect together. See? Now the whole school knows that you both are official!” Irene said as she sat beside me, pinching my cheeks. “Thank You! And how about you and Akshay?” I asked her, smirking and pointing at my new best friend’s date. “Oh! No! We’re just uh here for the urm dance, only,” she stuttered, blushing uncontrollably. “Sure, sure. Just for the dance, aye?” I said, taking a sip of the delicate champagne and I saw her nodding and fidgeting with the beads on her purse. “YOU’RE FIDGETING GIRL! YOU LIKE HIMM!!” I teased her, over the loud music in the room. “What?! NO! STOP LAYLA!” she denied and I simply laughed, obviously finding it amusing that she likes Akshay.

“What are you girls laughing about?” Jeff and Akshay asked as they both brought four plates of whatever the decided was tasty. “Oh, nothing. Irene here likes someone, but she’s denying it,” I said, and Akshay’s face fell, like a bombshell was dropped on him head, and I nudged Irene with my elbow, and she just smiled. “Well, who’s in our little girl’s heart?” Jeff said to Irene, and I silently told him the answer. “Well, I think we should be eating, sit down,” Akshay told, uncomfortably. Jeff sat down beside me, kissing my cheeks and bringing his plate closer to him. Two tiny club sandwiches, French fries, a dark chocolate cupcake, deep fried prawn wontons and a tiny chicken pop tart. Who classified these as prom food? I don’t know. But still, I was hungry so I started with a French fry and ended up stuffing everything else in my mouth. ‘So, what’s next? I heard there’ll be prom king and queen thingy later, and then a lucky draw and then a dance and we’re done,” Akshay told us. “Great! So we’ll be home by midnight,” I told them and continued eating.

We cleaned our plates and downed our last drops of champagne as the students’ head spoke on the microphone, “AND NOW! THE MOMENT WE’VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR! THE PROM KING AND QUEEN FOR THIS YEAR!” and everyone started cheering. I had no clue who was going to win, but I didn’t care either, so I started playing with Jeff’s fingers as they announced the prom king first. “ANY GUESSES WHO THE PROM KING IS? IT’S ADAM MANCHESTER! LET’S GIVE HIM A BIG CLAP EVERYONE!” they announced and my head shot up, Adam? Oh well, okay. They gave him his silver crown kind of thing and he stood awkwardly at the corner of the stage. “AND NOW! THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL TODAY WILL WIN THE PROM QUEEN TITLE! AND THAT IS…..LAYLA YOUNG! CONGRAGULATIONS LAYLA!!” I heard them say, but nothing got into my head, I was still playing with Jeff’s fingers, when he shook my shoulders and I looked up to see him pale faced. “What’s wrong, baby?” I asked him. “Layla, you’re the prom queen. You have to go up stage now. You..uh..you will have to dance with Adam,” he stuttered and what I did. I stared at him. I can’t be prom queen, look around me there are tones of beautiful girls around, I can’t be prom queen, especially not with Adam. I shot up and looked at Akshay and Irene and they just shrugged. I shot Adam a look, and he just looked back at me, obviously he too had no clue how did that happen. Did someone do this on purpose after seeing Jeff asking me to be his girlfriend? “Layla Young?” the students’ head called again, and I picked up myself and ran up the stage. “CONGRAGULATIONS LAYLA! YOU’RE THE PROM QUEEN FOR THIS YEAR! AND BY THE WAY YOU LOOK ABSOLUTELY STUNNING!” he said and winked at me, and I swear if I hadn’t had self control, I’d have hit him with a brick on stage. That stupid asshole. I was given a silver tiara and a sash that had the words ‘PROM QUEEN’ printed in huge white letters. Great! “Now, for the last dance for today, the prom king and queen will be starting off the dance!” he said and got off the microphone. Adam and I got down the stage and walked towards the dance floor. “I swear I had no idea this was coming. Don’t be mad. You don’t have to dance, if you don’t want to, Layla,” Adam whispered as we walked. “Its okay, I’m fine,” I muttered. My eyes searched the crowd for Jeff, I spotted the table we were sitting. Akshay and Irene were there, but Jeff wasn’t.

Hello butterflies! Um Hi, I didn't know what to write for this chapter until the lasssst minute, but there you go! Hope you all like it! Vote, Comment, Share PLEASEEEE! I LOVE YOU ALLLL PEEPS! :*

Kisses from the other side of the screen!