A Night at the Prom

Chapter 5

Tonight was the night. The night of all nights. It was prom night. Everyone was approaching the school in their little tuxedos and dresses and they all had the most happy expressions on their faces. All except one.

"Porrrrrrrrim! why do you have to go? i mean....i dont even have a date!" It was around seven o clock at night and Kankri was having his suit pressed up by Porrim. His suit was a Iron color suit and had a grey dress shirt underneath along with a red bow tie to match.

"Well Kankri, you cant just stay at home while all your friends are out there having fun. Everyone is going to be there and so will you, you hear me mister?" Porrim had a dark long silky dress with a shade of Jade on the sash and sides of it along with some jade earrings and long black gloves. "But what about all my activites that i was going to have planned? I mean i'm suppose to finish up that essay thats due within the week and finish my project and lastly i--ACK!" his words were cut off due to the fact Porrim tightened his bow tie hard.

"Listen to me Kankri Vantas. You aint going to be weasling your way out of this. Now stop acting like such a child and fix the cuffs on your jacket! they look very uneven." Porrim let go of Kankri's bow tie as she started to go over to a mirror that was by the front door and began to fix her hair while Kankri was gasping for air for he almost dodged being strangled to death. A few minutes later, Porrim put Kankri in her car as she drove him all the way down to the school and began to park it on the side of the school. The moment they went inside, they could see that it was packed with young students who were about to graduate and make something of their lives.

"Well this is brilliant. I'm stuck here with no acts of activities and worst of all i already feel like a pathetic has-been. Porrim cant i just go home?....Porrim?" Kankri looked around the room to see that Porrim had just left Kankri by himself while she went over to Aranea and Meenah who just seemed to be talking by themselves. As Kankri examined the whole room it was indeed packed with kids. He could see Rufioh and Horuss talking by the exit door while Damara seemed to be sneaking up on him. Cronus who was just....well....dancing it up over by the punch bowl while getting a few giggles from some of the girls, though most of it seemed like they were mocking him rather then being flattered by his moves and lastly he could see Mituna dancing with Latula. Just the mere sight of them gave him a unsettling feeling his stomach.

"Forget this. I dont care if i get a earful from Porrim. I'm not going to be wasting my whole entire night by just standing here and acting like i even care about being here. Time to abscond on out of here". Kankri began to turn his back on the dancefloor as he started to put his hands on the door and opened it up. As he was walking down the hallway, he saw something. Or rather someone. "...Holy mother of gog. Is that who i think it is?" With that sheer shock of surprise, it was. It was Meulin Leijon who had her hair all tied up in a pony tail that was held up by a kitty hairclip, a Olive and green sparkling dress with black heels and black long gloves. She also had a white fuzzy scarf that was tucked tightly around her neck and had her hands on her tiny kitty purse. She slowly was making her way in with a meek expression on her face but it soon changed when she saw Kankri just standing there. Her expression was now more happier now that she finally saw a familiar face as she soon approached Kankri, but was rather curious as to why Kankri's mouth was wide open like that. It was almost as if he saw a ghost.

"Hm? Kankritty? What are you doing here? I thought you said you didnt want to come here....Hm? Whats wrong?" She was tilting her head from left to right as she was alittle worried as to why Kankri was just standing there. But after a few moments of silence, Kankri closed his mouth and shook his head. "Oh. My dearest apologizes Meulin. I just....wow....i barely even recognize it was you. I mean....look at you! I never knew you actually wore this kind of material design of fabric before." Kankri was honestly bewildered to see Meulin like this. Too be honest he couldnt help but slightly blush at just how pretty she looked. But soon his attention got back as he looked around and noticed something was wrong.

"Hold on....Meulin. Where is Kurloz? Is he running late or got into a terrible accident? I would assume that he would have walked in here with you by now. Is he perhaps just outside and letting you just walk in on your own?". Kankri had his hand on his hip as he cocked his brow at Meulin. "Well....i asked Purrloz before if he wanted to go before but he told me that he had plans with his Father....plus i wanted to ask you but...." She had her head down as she had her eyes gaze down at the ground with a saddened expression. Kankri then was surprised to hear that she wanted to ask him out. But when did she ask him? Kankri then started to remember back on what happened during lunch time where she did remember saying something about Prom until the bell ranged.

"Oh gog! Was that what you were going to tell me?....Oh my most sincerest apologizes Meulin....i just figured that you were going with Kurloz sense you two are mostly inseparable."

"Yeah...i been told that alot. But sense your here now....would you like to come with me? I mean...you didnt go with anyone did you?" She said as she brought her gaze back up to Kankri.

Kankri then leaned his body to the left of the exit door. He just wanted to leave and forget about this silly prom and just go home. But on the other hand, it would be very rude to just reject Meulin like that after all the trouble she went to of asking Kankri out to the prom.

"Well....i...." He gave out a deep sigh. "No. Of coarse not Meulin. Too be honest i was kind of forced to come here by Porrim and....well....you know how she is. But if you want, i can accompany you to the prom as my way of making it up to you for not letting you finish your sentence before." He said as he extended his arm out to her. "Are you ready to go?" He said as he gave her a short small smile on his face.

"Of coarse Kankritty~ Lets go dance our butts off~!" She said as she wrapped both her arms around Kankri's arm as she then lead Kankri back into the dancefloor. Kankri was stumbling on his feet a bit, but was trying to keep his posture straight as he was lead back into the gym.