Prologue: True
*RING* The bells rang as all the students swam out of the classes into the hallway of lockers.
"Finally! Today is the longest da…" The green hazel eyes boy said with a sigh and shook his head for a little which make his long dirty blond hair went all around and looked like he just woke up which he did from the previous class, Chemistry. He started to walk down the hallway to his locker to put away his books and headed home.
"Wade, you have said that sentence since we were first grade." The blue eyes boy with blond hair said before Wade even finished his sentence with his smile that made all the girls in Cyrus Lavinius Jeremiah Jones high school swoon. His locker was beside with Wade and he too, started to put his books away.
"George Tucker! You are a golden boy. It is obvious that you like school because all the girls in school always make googly eyes at you every time you walked pass them by." The 16-year-old boy Wade Kinsella argued back and slammed the door of his locker shut, but his friend, George, only laughed back.
"First of all, I don't like school because all the girls make 'googly eyes' at me but I have to have a higher score to get myself into a good lawyer school…" He quotes the word with his two fingers to emphasise. "… and second, if I don't go to school, my ma will have my behind for sure because I once saw Harry skipped a class once and my ma whoop his ass! And that is the scariest thing I have ever seen." He chuckled when he thought of his older brother when he left the school early just to go buy a ticket to Monster Truck rally at New Orleans because that was the last day that they gonna sold it.
"Ugh…" He stopped for second before he continued. "Hey Tucker! I just remember that next weekend has a prom. Do you want to go to prom?" Wade asked with a smile that showed all of his teeth including the braces.
"With you. Absolutely no." George laughed so hard that his head hit his own locker. Then, he started to slow down his laughter when he saw Wade's smile turned into that pouty mouth.
"No, you bastard. I mean like who do you want to take with you if you were going to the prom." Wade asked again, but only got George's suspicious smile back.
"Why are you interesting all of the sudden? You never go to prom before." George frown and acted like he didn't care.
"I don't know, it just pops up in my head so I just want to get it out." Wade said but his forehead started to form a sweat.
"Well then, I don't know too. Maybe I will just go with the first girl that ask me to go with her, you know." George said.
Of course, this is Bluebell for Pete's sake! The prom is not a normal prom where girls were so giddy and waited for the boys to asked them to go to the prom with and got a limo and whatsoever. But obviously, Bluebell had its own tradition by having it on a literally reverse role. The girls had to ask the boys and picked the boys up with their cars, took the boys to the dance, and finally drove the boys home. Which was really awkward to be honest.
"Right…." Wade said. He turned around and saw that almost everybody had left the school, it only a couple people still put their things away in their locker so he was ready to sprint out of the doorway to the outside of the building at ran all the way to home. Unfortunately, he only dashed for like two steps before he crashed into someone and all of his or her things scattered all around the floor.
"Oh! I am so sorry. I didn't know that there is someone behind me. I shouldn't have run in the first place when there are signs that said no running in the hallway all around the school." Wade rambled. He started to panic when the other person didn't say anything back. His concern then changed to confusion when the other person started to giggle nonstop. That person looked up from the spot she had sit on the floor when she got crash by Wade and in that moment, Wade knew exactly who he had collided with. It was a girl with big brown doe eyes and brown locks, that girl was Zoe Wilkes, one of the town doctors' daughter. Zoe Wilkes, the smartest girl in the school. Zoe Wilkes, the kindest girl in the school. Zoe Wilkes, the cutest girl in the school. But most importantly, Zoe Wilkes, the girl that Wade had a crush on.
"That's okay. It doesn't hurt that much." Zoe said between her giggle. She started to gather her belongings on the saw that and get down on his knees to help her pick all the books up.
"Here, let me help you." He picked all of her books but when she tried to take it off his hands, he just pulled it back towards himself.
"Wade, I'm gonna go now though. Today is my ma's birthday, I can't be late." George said and walked away. he didn't even know that Wade didn't listen to him at all because all of Wade's attention was the girl in front of him.
"Nah. It's okay. Where's your locker? At least let me do this. I feel really bad that I almost knock you out and didn't do anything." He shyly said it and kept all of her books in his left arm and got up on the floor before lent his other arm towards her on the floor so she could reach for his hand and pulled her up.
"You don't have to do that. I'm okay. Seriously, you help me pick my things up is enough." Zoe reached out for his hand with her left hand and when they touched, they could feel the spark and the electricity run around over their bodies. He pulled her up so she can stand on her feet and responded back to her.
"Well, I'm not okay. So…Please allow me to escort you to your destination." He suddenly got back to his playful banter.
He knew where her locker was heart by heart, he just didn't want her to think of him as a stalker or something else. He knew that it was two lockers away from him from his right side. The locker that was between them was George's. But he didn't say anything, just wait for her to answer his plea.
"Okay. Umm…two lockers away from you actually." She bit her lower lip and smile that shy smile at him that almost knock him.
"Oh…Okay then." He smiled back with his crooked grin that showed off his braces and walked her to her locker. He helped her put everything in the locker and closed it for her.
"So…" He started to say something but never get it out.
"So…" She mimicked and giggle a little. Wade chuckled and ran his fingers through his shoulder-length hair whenever he got nervous.
"If you don't know what to say, can I say first?" Zoe said with a shy smile.
"Sure, go ahead." Wade replied.
"Thank you for helping me carry my things though, I really appreciate it."
"You're welcome." He smiled back.
They stood in front of each other at her locker. She with a shy smile on and looked at the floor. He with his right hand his hair and his other hand in his jean's pocket.
"I…" He started to say something and then stopped. Zoe then looked up and locked her eyes with his. She waited for him to speak again.
"I…I will see you around then." Wade said awkwardly and turned his back to her and walked slowly toward the exit of the building. He just walked halfway of the hallway when Zoe shouted at him. She didn't know what had gotten into her, she only knew that she didn't want Wade to leave yet. Not when she had a chance to finally talk to him.
"Wade! Wait!" He stopped and turned back to look at her when he saw her walked beeline toward him.
"You know my name?" he stunted for a bit but put his poker face on when inside, he was literally jumped up and down from joy.
"Yeah. I know your name?" She said it more like a question but then she resumed what she wanted to talk about, "Anyway, you know that next weekend has a prom, right?"
"I do, in fact, know that." He said, confused.
"Okay. Do you have a date?" She started to fidget and she didn't know what to do with her hands so she just kept her hands inside her jean's back pockets and bit her lower lip again.
"No. No one asks me but I think this year will not be different from previous years."
"Now you do!" She said with enthusiasm. Then her eyes widened and her mouth was opened. "I mean, if you want to."
"If I want to what?" Wade already knew that in this moment, his crush just asked him to go to the dance with him but he just wanted to hear it again.
"If you…If you want to go to the prom next weekend with me?"
"Yes."
"Arghh…This is so embarrassing, I shouldn't just ask…Wait what?! What did you just say?"
"I said yes, Zoe Wilkes. I would love to go to the prom with you next weekend."
"Okay…Cool." Zoe started to blush so hard that her face literally turned into a tomato. "Wait! How did you know my name? I didn't even introduce myself to you before."
"Well…How do I say it without making myself look like a retard?…We have history class together so that's how. What about you, how did you know my name?"
"To tell the truth, I would say the same. I mean the history class part, not a retard part though." She laughed.
They just stared at each other until her phone went off. They snapped out of the trance and she picked her phone up from her jean's front pocket. The phone showed the word 'Dad' on the screen, she read and looked back to Wade before she spoke to him again.
"I should really get going, I think my dad is worried about me by now that I didn't show up 20 minutes ago. I didn't know that I have talked to you for so long. You probably are bored of me by now. Sorry about that."
"No. No, it's okay. I'm not bored. I like to talk to you." He smiled softly.
"Okay. I have to go now. I'll see you around."
"Yeah, see you." He responded and saw she walked out of the door and pushed the receive button to talk to her dad, Harley Wilkes, and explained why she was late and her voice started to fade away when she walked further and further.
"So true. Funny how it seems. Always in time, but never in line for dreams… " He sang softly to himself before he skipped out of the door and headed to his home with a goofy smile on his face that show all of his braces all the way home.