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Prologue: Fall Dance
The Fall Dance was going great for all people but… Katie Brown. She frowned as her date danced with some 8th Grader chick. She scanned the huge gym. Seriously, huge. The basketball court covered probably just a half of the gym and the bleachers, when pulled up covered the other half.
She saw Zack and his girlfriend. Zack kept peeking a smile in on her, trying to get her to light up. She grinned and waved, almost sarcastically, but she wasn't in the mood for sarcasm which took away the effect. She saw a boy, probably a 6th Grader, walk up to a DJ. It was a request. Seconds later Lenny Kravitz came on. She smiled, the only true one she had all day. Lenny Kravitz wasn't the best rock choice, in her opinion, but it was better than that rap crack.
She looked around for more band members. Behind a large group she caught Marta, Alicia, and Tomika with their dates. Now, all she needed to find were Lawrence and Freddy. Lawrence was found sitting next to a couple 'stringers' from orchestra. He seemed to be having fun. This was good, he was usually bored during school dances.
Now Freddy. All she had to do is look for the largest group of girls, and yep, there he was. He looked bored, like him and Lawrence switched positions. The girls that stood drooling over him went crazy when he got up, like he was going to dance with one of them, but instead he went and got some punch.
She looked down at her reflection in her own punch until she saw Marta and a boy she had never seen come up behind her. She looked up and saw her with a really tall guy. He looked like Shaggy from Scooby Doo. She saw the similarity and chuckled to herself.
"Hey, Katie," she began. "Hey," Katie responded. "You looked lonely, so…" Katie immediately saw that Marta was trying to hook her up. "No thanks," Katie managed to spit out before Marta could finish. She looked up at the boy and continued. "Don't take it personally, I just don't feel like hanging out with any, new faces right now." The two walked off.
A couple minutes later Freddy sat down across from her, which surprised Katie. He looked as if he was going to say something but then stumbled. "So, how's it goin'," was all he could get out. "Not really good for me," Katie responded and glared at her supposed-to-be-date. "Oh, sorry," he muttered. "It's ok, it's not your fault. Why aren't you with your dates?" "Do you know how annoying ten girls constantly asking you to dance can be?" Katie laughed. "So.. Um. I.. I wanted to see if… er… if you would like, dance… with me?" She smiled. "Sure."
They walked out to the dance floor just as a slow song started. Freddy put his hands on her waist and she, around his neck. "So, um… you look nice." "You too." He gave a out a nervous laugh. "Thanks," he barely managed to get out. She looked into his nervous eyes for a minute. "You know, you don't have to be nervous around me." He seemed to lighten up a little and smiled. "Thanks, you either." "Freddy, I'm not." He smiled and she laughed.