In case you don't live forever

Chapter 17: Snowball

(The picture is what Peter looks like at the snowball)

Peter's Pov:

I looked at myself in my bathroom mirror, trying to fix my hair. It didn't have any gel in it and was fluffy and curly, how it naturally looks but I always put gel in it although not today. Once I finally had fixed it so it didn't look like I just rolled out of bed, I attempted to tie my bow tie. After a few tries, Steve came in to see me struggling. He turned me around to face him and tied the bow tie for me. "Thanks Steve" I smiled at him. "No problem little bro" He patted me on the shoulder gently. "You look amazing" He told me and I smiled at him before he carried me down the stairs. I still wasn't able to walk without my crutches as my foot was still healing. My dad, Chris popped out of nowhere holding a camera in his hands. "Aww my baby looks so grown up" He said and started taking pictures of me. "Thanks dad" I smiled and he took a few more pictures. "Well we got to go now, bye dad" Steve said and started leaving the house with me slowly following, using my crutches. We got into the car, Steve in the drivers seat and me in the back. Steve drove to Dustin's house and he got in the passengers seat. "What happened to your hair, Dustin?" I asked, looking at Dustin's hair. "Nothing happened to my hair, Edward" Dustin told me and I giggled a little and Steve drove off.

He drove to the school and when we arrived, there was music blasting.  "All right boys, we are here" Steve said and turned to Dustin. "So, remember, once you get in there..." Steve said to Dustin. "Pretend like I don't care" Dustin said. "You don't care" Steve spoke. "I don't care" Dustin said again and I looked at them confused. "There you go. You're learning my friend. You're learning" Steve told Dustin. Dustin looked at himself in the mirror but Steve pulled his hand away from it. "Hey. Come on, you look great, okay? You look... you look great. Okay? Now, you are going to go in there, look like a million bucks and you are going to slam 'em dead" Steve told him. "Like a lion" Dustin said then made the weird purring noise he makes all the time. "Don't do that, okay?" Steve told Dustin. "Okay" Dustin replied. Steve held out his hand and Dustin grabbed it. "Good luck" Steve told him before Dustin got out of the car. Steve watched Dustin go inside and then continued to look. I followed his eyes to see him looking at Nancy who was just in view when you looked through the doors. "Okay stop looking at your ex and help me out of the car, Steve" I said and snapped him out of his gaze. "Oh right" He said before getting out of the car and opening the backseat door. He grabbed my crutches off of the car floor and held them up for me to grab and I got out of the car. "Have fun" He smiled at me and I smiled back before slowly making my way into the school.

When I got inside, I looked for my friends. I saw Will and suddenly my face turned into a tomato. He looked so... so... handsome. I finally got to the table my friends were at. "Hey guys" I smiled at them all. "H..hey Pete" Will smiled at me, blushing as well. Time After Time started playing and Lucas asked Max to dance. They left and started dancing. A girl came up to us "Hey, Zombie Boy. Do you wanna dance?" She asked Will and I was ready to punch her in the face for calling him 'zombie boy'. "Um... I don't.." Will looked at me and I nodded a little, frowning a little. "I mean... I mean, yeah, sure" He replied and they went off. Another girl came up to us, staring me weirdly. It made me very uncomfortable. The girl had curly hair and was about a foot taller than me. I'm pretty sure her name was... Greta. "Hey Crutchie, come dance with me" She said and pulled my arm a little causing me to drop my crutches. She put her arms around my waist and I put mine on her shoulders awkwardly. I was standing on one foot and I could barely stand still so I had to put a little bit of pressure on my broken foot. We managed to dance through the whole song after I had stepped on her toes a numerous amount of times. After she leaned closer to me and closed her eyes, pursing her lips a little. She got closer to me and almost kissed me but I pulled away. "I uh... Mike is calling me. I have to go bye!" I quickly said, then limped back in pain to the table we were sitting at. I sat down at the table, picked up my crutches off the cloor and looked at the dance floor. Will was still dancing with that girl, Lucas was kissing Max, Dustin was dancing with Nancy and Mike was kissing a girl. It was El. He was kissing El. I stood up and slowly made my way to the dude who was playing the music with my crutches clinking and asked him to stop it. He stopped it and everyone stopped dancing and looked at him, annoyed. I hopped to the mic that was by the speaker and started to speak into it. "Hi, um, my name is Peter Harrington but you probably already knew that and I am going to sing a song. It's a song I wrote for someone. Someone very special to me and I have known for very long. I love them so much and I just wanted to sing this song to them now so here I go, I guess" I said and sat on the piano bench to the piano that happened to already be there, rested my crutches on the floor and my fingers started playing the keys.