Ironically, I came up with this story long before Hold. And it had nothing to do with the story at all. But I can change a few things I think I might end up liking this one a lot more than Hold, but I don't know yet. I'm just proud I finished a story, I've never done that yet haha. Well let me know what you think!
Lilly took one last look in her compact mirror. She could hear her friends giggling beside her in the car; this was their first high school dance. Lilly and her friends had spent months preparing for this moment. And now that it was here, she didn't want it to be over. Kind of like waiting all year for Christmas, and then in a matter of minutes it's all over. Lilly and her friends had gone to countless stores trying to find the perfect dress, and spent hours pouring over thousands of magazines trying to find the ultimate hairstyle. Lilly's older sister was going to the dance too, but since she was a senior and not a freshman like Lilly and her friends, this wasn't as big of a deal to her.
Carolina and Jessica, Lilly's friends, had convinced her to get the dress she had now; a giant pink poof, with a tight sequined bodice. Her dad didn't really like the price tag and had thrown a fit when the bill on his credit car came in the mail, but the way she looked in her mom's full length mirror made it worth the ungodly hour she had to get up tomorrow morning and trudger herself over to her dad's smelly mechanic shop. It's worth it, she kept telling herself.
Lilly and her friends stepped into the gymnasium of their high school and it felt magical to Lilly and her friends. There was a D.J. on one side of the gym and a table of cake with a punch bowl. The girl's classmates were covering the floor, dancing with each other, but what caught Lily's eye was a certain boy standing on the other side of the gym. Lilly didn't recognize the boy, she had never met him before in her life. But there they were, staring at each other, fixed on each other.
Lilly felt herself being drawn to the unknown boy, despite her not knowing him. He was flanked on both sides by other boys, each of them giant, just not as big as the boy Lilly was walking toward. There was something about the boy that seemed familiar, but she couldn't place as to what it was. Lilly had made it to the boy now and was standing right in front of him, just staring. The boy stuttered a bit then composed himself, coughing.
"I'm Sam, Sammy Uley." He said extending his hand to Lilly. She could already tell he was a gentleman. Instead of slinking up to her, and saying some cheesy pick-up line he was nervous and shy. Lilly took and shook his huge hand; it enveloped her small hand, surrounding it like a shell. Now that she was this close to this Sammy, she realized fully how huge he was. He seemed a full two heads taller than herself, and he had these huge wide shoulders. Like Lilly and everyone else at the dance, he was Native Indian, but since Lilly lived in and went to school on an Indian reservation, it was expected. But this Sammy and his friends weren't like other boys from the reserve. All of them were huge, but most boys wore their hair long to their shoulders, but these guys had their hair cropped short.
"I'm Lilly, Lilly Black"