Just for the record...the way the characters IN THIS CHAPTER got asked are not my own ideas. These were actual ways that people at my school were asked! :)
It's that time of year again –prom season. Girls and guys go crazy over tickets, tuxes, dresses, dinner reservations, limos, and most importantly…their dates. For those who have significant others, it's already a given who they're going with. But for those who are single, it's an endless torment to see which young man is brave enough to ask.
Grant High School is no different. Students are scrambling around with their plans and ideas to ask their dates-to-be. There have been some pretty impressive ones so far. Henry asked Alice via intercom; he got the principal to pretend there was a note he found on the floor, so the principal acted like he was frustrated about finding notes so he decided to teach the student a lesson by reading it publically. The note said: "I've tried to think of many ways to do this. I'm hoping you will like it. Alice, will you go to prom with Henry?"
Grace was hoping to get Daniel to go with her, but since he's a college student, he has no interest in going to a high school prom. Jack wanted to take Grace, so he ended up asking her. He waited until she had a test in her AP US History class, and he asked the teacher if he could write "Will you go to the prom with Jack Pappas?" as a question at the end of the test. The teacher made sure she got that copy, and Grace freaked out in class when she saw the question. She said yes, of course.
Ben finally manned up to asking Adrian. At first he was hesitant and didn't want to, but he got his mind around it and realized that it's the right thing to do…to ask his wife. So he pretended he lost a bet to one of the students in her AP Economics class, and as a result, he had to bring cupcakes for everyone. Everyone but Adrian knew what was up. If a person had a golden wrapper, they had to give it to Adrian. At the bottom of each wrapper was one word. When Adrian collected all the golden wrappers, it said: "Will you go to prom with me? –Ben."
Griffin asked Peter by secretly taking Peter's phone and he replaced his name in Peter's contacts with "Prom?" so that when Griffin called Peter later that night, "Prom?" showed up in the caller ID.
There is still one girl yet to be asked…Amy. Everyone doubts her and Ricky's relationship since Ricky has yet to officially ask her. It's just the principle of the matter, and Amy is getting impatient waiting for him to ask. In fact, she doesn't even know if he was going to. They haven't really spoken of it or them going together. So that evening while they had dinner, Amy brought up the topic to see what he says.
"So…prom's in two weeks," Amy said.
"I know. It's impossible not to know with all these guys asking girls in huge ways. It's ridiculous," remarked Ricky.
"Ridiculous? I think it's cute! Asking a girl to prom publically is so romantic."
"Romantic? It's absurd. Why can't they just ask them privately without needing the whole world to know? Better yet…why do they even have to ask?"
"WHY? Ricky, no one knows who they'll be going with until they ask or get asked."
"How does someone in a relationship not know they're going with their boyfriend or girlfriend?"
"It's just common courtesy to ask! That's just taking the relationship for granted."
"How is that 'taking it for granted?' Isn't it a given they'll be going with their significant other?"
"Well…yeah, but you can't expect the girl to know that."
"HOW can you not expect the girl to know that? The girl is expecting to get asked by her boyfriend. The boyfriend is expecting her to say yes. The couple expects to go together. Why does he need to formally ask?"
"It's just sweet and gentleman-like."
"Yeah, whatever. It's still the stupidest thing I've ever heard of."
Amy rolled her eyes. "Ricky, are you planning on attending prom?"
He was quiet for a bit. "I have no intention of going."
Her jaw dropped. "WHAT! WHY! Ricky, it's PROM."
"And?"
"It's your senior prom! Your last high school function. Do you really wanna miss out on a chance to be with the ones you care about one last time?"
"The only people I care about are you and John. I don't need to go to something stupid like prom just to be with you. It won't be our last time to be together."
"Well...I know. But what about your friends? You're gonna regret not going."
"No. I won't."
"I wanna go to prom."
He looked at her for a bit. "Then go."
"Ricky. I don't wanna go alone."
"Who said you're going alone? You'll be with Madison and Lauren and Grace. Oh, and Adrian."
"They all have dates."
"So what? You want me to be your date?"
"Obviously…" she rolled her eyes.
"We'll see," he said.
