30 Days of Us

Day 26: "Prom"

Day 26:

The turquoise coloured dress hugs my body tightly. It's a bustier, and there are gems on the top, followed by a tight-fitting dress and a fishtail at the bottom. I sigh and do a weird shimmy in front of the mirror. Does my fats show?

Ugh. Should've picked a loser fitting one.

But that one was so poofy and like...

I LIKE POOFY DRESSES.

YES PRINCESS MIA BUT IT WAS UNCOMFORTABLE.

TRUE.

I tie a princess hairstyle (cuz imma princess) and put on my prom princess tiara. I smile fondly at it. Somehow, even though I'm perpetually always overseas, my friends still grouped up to make sure I'd be "at least a princess". I grab my hairspray and make sure that the tiara stays on my head. I'm touching up my silver/turquoise makeup when there's a knock on the door.

Huh?

Dani left this morning, cuz of some promo thingy (again). I don't have a prom date. Who in the world is that? Maybe it's Abby. Or maybe it's a serial killer, ready to kill me the second I open the door. What if it's...

Right. Human at the door.

I slowly open the door, and there is Dani in a tuxedo and holding his luggage and...

WHAT?!

"Surprise?" Dani holds his hands out innocently, and I burst into a fit of giggles, attacking him in a hug.

"I thought you had promo?!"

"Well yeah but Emma and Tom forced them to cancel so I can take you to prom."

"Tom helped?"

"Yeah! I mean, he's messed with our relationship quite a bit, and like, sort of testing us? And he's quite done, and it's affected us a net total of absolutely zero so he's coming to terms with the fact that we're lasting a little longer than 6 weeks."

"Just a little?"

"Okay, maybe more than a little." Dani rolls his eyes. "Anyway," he takes my hand and puts on a flower bracelet thing around my wrist "shall we?"

"We shall."

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"Don't you dare get drunk or I'll kill you," I warn as we step into the ballroom. "Or at least you won't see your underwear again."

Dani rolls his eyes (again). "Yes mum."

We shuffle in and I thank god I didn't pick that poofy dress because I probably would've knocked people down with it. Some people are wearing big fat neon pink dresses and some wearing...

Practically nothing.

I talk to my friends and we chill until the announcer says that they're going to announce prom queen and king.

Do not get me started on my OTP.

Just.

There's this guy called Ashton, and there's Abby, and dON'T YOU DARE FIGHT ME ON THIS, THEY'RE GONNA GET MARRIED AND HAVE 1837492728 KIDS OK. OK.

Their ship name's weird, most lately Ashby, and that's weird but dO NOT GET ME STArted.

#whereismychill

"Prom King is Ashton!"

MAH SHIP DIS MAH SHIP GUYS ABBY BETTER WIN OMFG.

"Prom Queen is... YES ABBY!!"

I look to my right, where Abby is currently blushing her head off, and we all pile on top of her, hugging and congratulating her.

"Now you guys have gotta get married!" Abby rolls her eyes (why's everyone doing that tonight) and walks on stage.

"Alright. Now, as tradition, we're gonna have to get you to throw a bouquet at the girls, with your back turned to them.

"Like I'm getting married?" Abby asks and everybody almost falls over laughing at the irony.

"I CALL DIBS ON BRIDESMAID!" I yell, and everyone stares but laughs at me. Abby giggles.

"Okay, I need to aim for Nicole. She's dating Daniel Radcliffe and they need to get married." Everyone gasps and cheers.

"Alright," the announcer says "if you manage to get it to Nicole we'll drag her and Daniel up here and make them kiss." Everyone cheers louder and I faceplam, hiding my face.

"1, 2, 3!!" Abby throws the bouquet and I get pushed forward. Next thing I know, the bouquet whacks me.

Right in the face.

"OWW!!" I whine and rub my face, smearing my blusher.

"Come on up!" Dani is onstage, and has the 2000% done look on his face. I giggle at that and get onstage.

"Ok." I say and put my hands on his neck.

"Peck and then we run."

"Deal."

The second our lips touch, we break apart, make Ashby have their first kiss in front of a good 300 people, and run off. Ashton flips us off as we duck into the sea of people who are too busy watching Ashby blush through the kiss and get forced to kiss again.

"Wanna leave?"

"Yeah." It sounds like a movie, and the way we lock each other's gaze for a few seconds while Ashby make out makes it even cheesier. I get a wink from Abby as Dani and I leg it out of there.

The breath of fresh air and the newfound silence is pretty amazing and Dani chuckles in an afterthought.

"What is it?"

"I don't know... I just... I'm proud of you, Nic."

The wind blows in the darkness as I look out to the newfound lake right outside campus.

"Do you want to dance?" Dani shuffles through his iPod and pressed on a song. He takes my hand and leads me further towards the lake as the song starts.

"When your legs don't work like they used to before."

I giggle. "Have you watched that music video?"

"It was amazing."

"Right??"

"Let's try and follow it."

"And darling I will be loving you till we're 70..."

"Just 70?"

"Longer."

"Can you sing? For me?" I smile at Dani's request, remembering how he caught me singing in the shower.

"People fall in love in mysterious ways, maybe just the touch of a hand." Dani smiles and sings along.

"Maybe we found love right where we are."

"Like on an airplane?"

"Like while poking each other?"

"Like while teasing each other about nothing cuz we barely knew each other?"

Dani pulls me close. "Right where we are. It's just what it is. We found love right where we are. Right here."

Cue the romantic kiss.

Yes it happened.

What stOP TALKING ABOUT PROTECTION EW.