Prom talked started with the start of 2014. People were already buying their dresses and it was only the first week in January. My concern wasn't about which dress I was going to pick, or how high my heels were going to be (even though I'm 5'8 my heels were still a concern but not the major one). My concern wasn't even my after prom plans, the thing that made prom, well, prom. My biggest concern was whom was I going to take that classic prom pic with. The obvious answer would be my prom date but the issue was I didn't have one. You may be saying to yourself, "well it's only the beginning of January, you have time." No but you don't understand, I didn't have a prom date; I didn't even have an option.

You see I attended an all girls' Catholic high school, Good Counsel Academy so the idea of asking the guy who had his locker next to me was out of the question. Of course we had a brother school but those guys were out of the equation too (Just no).

Second, I didn't have any guy friends to ask. I was that typical girl (or I don't know what "typical girl" will be when you read this) but I didn't talk to many guys. I only had my circle of close girl friends, was shy, and not very social.

I did go out with my friends to the movies or dinner but that was only when I didn't have work. During my senior year of high school (and continuing, I'm now a freshman in college) I worked a part time job at my local supermarket, ShopRite, and that became my life.

So throughout my senior year, my life was school and work so my chances of finding a date for prom was slim to none. Of course, my friends had guy friends or at least they could have found me someone but I didn't want that. You see prom was the night topped all the nights. It was a night you could be young, wild and free. I always pictured sharing that last dance with someone special, with my boyfriend, but at this point I was settling for someone special. At this point I was just settling for the picture. Just one picture, the picture that I would send my family, awing on what a "cute" couple we were. The picture I would look back to show you. My date wouldn't need to even go to after prom, or he doesn't even need to show up to prom, just for pre-prom for the picture.

So again, my options were to find a guy from school or work and with school not even possible, work was my only option.

And from then on started the best/worse, happiest/saddest, and adventure/crazy year of my life.

And it all started just because of one picture...