The Second Choice

Night to rememebr

Today is the day of the dance and of course that's all that everyone is talking about. What they are gonna wear and how they are going to get their hair/nails done. Meanwhile I'm here freaking out and trying to process what Alexia told me yesterday. "He likes you" does that mean that he might ask me to dance? Or maybe he just won't make a move at all. School goes by pretty fast and as I'm heading down the 3 flight of stairs Talia calls my name so we both go down together, and when we reach outside she starts running to the main entrance of our school while telling me to follow her. As I follow her I ask her "Where are we going" before I could get an answer she says "Bye Crystal" and she winks at me, confused I look to my right and see Micheal sitting in the steps smiling at me. "Hey Crystal" yet again he pulls the front of his hair. "Hi" I say looking down at the floor. God help me I'm so awkward. "So are you going to the dance?" "Yes I am" I say smiling and my mom pulls up at school. Kind of happy that she interrupted how weird I am with him. I look back at him a final time and he says "can't wait to see you."

Butterflies in my stomach starts to form as the hours pass by. I hate school dances especially the fact that I have to walk in alone wearing a dress and heels, plus Amelia isn't coming because she caught the flu so she won't be along my side so that makes this night worse.

Micheal crosses my mind, I don't really know why but he just does like will he like what I wear? Will he even notice when I get there? As I open Snapchat I see that my friend Emerly posted him already there but it's so early that the lights are turned on.

I look at myself in the mirror a final time before leaving. I'm wearing a white lace long sleeve dress and black heels. "I'll be fine" I reassure myself.

When I approach my school I step out of the car and fix my dress and when I turn around there he is. Micheal standing at the front of the door and he's starring at me. "Was he waiting for me?" I doubt it. As I go up the stairs he says "H-hi Crystal" he seems nervous"Hey" I say back, "Ahhh im scared to walk in alone", it's true I'm terrified, if I walk in with him I'll feel so much better. "I'll walk in with you" he says in a nervous tone. "Oh uh sure,thanks"I feel my cheeks on fire, hopefully he didn't notice.

And with that he walks me inside and of course my friends stare. Christina was like "something between you two is going to happen, I know it" and that's when Micheal walks up to us and we smile at each other and Christina gives us a smirk "what?" he says "oh nothing, just that you guys are making it so obvious that you like each other". Oh god, I'm gonna kill her. He turns red and walks away, he didn't even try to deny it.

An hour or so passes and i'm actually having kind of fun dancing with my friends and then a Hispanic song comes on and I see Micheal dances with Talia. My chest gets heavy like it almost... hurts to see him with another girl, like I'm jealous. "Why would I be jealous? I don't even like him" "oh god what's wrong with me?". Christina notices my sudden change in mood and she immediately knows why.

She and our other friend, Delilia walk up to Micheal and they tell him to dance with me. As they are talking to him I can see him looking in my direction. "No way he's actually going to dance with me". I immediately freak out, I can't do it, what if I step on him or what if he feels forced to dance with me? I'm trying to run away into the bathroom but Christina's sister stops me and says " No Crystal, don't go and hide you know that you want to dance with him so stop denying it because everyone but yourself knows." She's right. I wanted nothing more than to be able to share a dance with him, so I stay in the same spot, waiting for him. "Maybe he won't even want to." I think but the rest of my thoughts are interrupted when Micheal walks up to me "Crystal d-do you want to dance?" I can't just say no... I don't want to say no so as he grabs my hand my most favorite love song "Perfect by Ed Sheeran" plays. It was as if the entire thing was planned out. As we start slow dancing I can see the flash from my friends cell phones recording us, but to me all that matters is just this moment of us. He gives me that shy smile that he always does and then that's when it hits me. That girl he was talking about is me , I AM that girl, and that's when I really realized my true feelings for him, I like him I guess my mind didn't want to accept it.

After the song ends we walk up to our teacher Ms.Holly and she has shipped us since day one and she practically dies when she sees us hand in hand. Meanwhile our other teacher Ms.Aurora takes a picture. After that we exchange looks and return to our friends.

They all freak out and show me all the videos and pictures that they took. I told them to send me the pictures and the first thing I did was sent them to Amelia. Damn it, now I owe her a dollar as we made a bet about all of this happening.

I spend the next hour left dancing with my friends, and just trying to process everything that happens. He was my first slow-dance. I really hope that I didn't look too awkward in the moment, I freak out when it comes to him. But he was too so that just made me feel better.

As the end of the dance comes, my parents are here and I have to leave. So I say my bye to my friends and Micheal sees me so I tell him that I'm going and so he gives me a hug, one that I don't try to dodge. "Have a goodnight Crystal" he shyly says and I return a smile.

Later that night I receive a text from saying "Thank you for tonight, I had a lot of fun dancing with you.♥️" and I thank him back with the same red heart. Wow. I actually like him.
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Hi y'all!! Ah I'm so happy to finally upload this chapter. It's probably the best one but the hardest one for me to write. But I really hope that your enjoying the story and next chapter will go out tomorrow, which is another I'm very excited for! Thank you for reading, much love♥️