"How do I look?" I asked my mom, Dr. Martinez as I spun around in my prom dress. I know what you're thinking, and usually, I wouldn't be wearing a dress; they're too girly, too restricting, and too hard too fight in. But, since saving the world, the flock and I have been going to school like normal kids for once, and I figured, 'What the hey?.' But, just in case, I'm wearing shorts and a tank top under my prom dress.

"Oh, honey," she exclaimed. "It's perfect! You look so beautiful." She was almost in tears. Even though it had been four years since I found out, I still had trouble believing that she was actually my mom. It gave me chills just thinking about it.

There was a knock at the door.

"Ready to go?" Fang asked as he entered the room, shielding his eyes.

"I'm going to go check on Ella," Dr. Martinez said, taking the hint.

I laughed as Fang bumped into my nightstand. "Leave the blind guy act to Iggy, Fang," I teased.

He uncovered his eyes. "Woah," he said. "You look li-" Fang stopped.

"I look like what?" I asked. Watch your step Fang.

"You look like…you're almost ready," he answered. "I'll be waiting downstairs."

"Okay," I said, turning back to the mirror. I was stunned at how girly I looked, how sophisticated, cuz' you know that's just me in a nutshell.

I went to the closet and grabbed the silver high heels my mom had picked out to go with my light blue dress. Once again, I know what you're thinking: High heels? Let me answer your questions right here: the only reason I agreed to wear high heels is because I figured, if I got in a fight, I could use the height to my advantage and a good, hard kick to the right place world have 'em rollin' on the floor. And if that didn't work out, I could take them off, throw them at my assailant and run like hell.

I strapped them on and practiced walking around my room, in an attempt to look graceful, another thing I'm known for. I looked at myself once more in the mirror and walked out of my room, down the hallway. Ella came out of her room wearing a strapless scarlet prom dress. I still couldn't believe that I had a sister, or that she could look this beautiful.

"They're coming!" Iggy shouted loud enough for Dr. Martinez to hear.

"Wait!" Dr. Martinez said as she raced from the kitchen to the bottom of the steps with the video camera, still wearing her apron. She must've been baking.

"Mom," I said, trying to hide the fact that I was actually enjoying this. God, it felt so good to say that.

"What?" she argued. "My daughters are going to prom. I wanna remember this."

I rolled my eyes and started to slowly walk down the stairs, Ella following close behind.

Fang and Iggy greeted us when we got to the bottom of the stairs.

"Well don't you two look spiffy?" I teased about their tuxes. Fang blushed.

Iggy looked impatient. "Okay, we gotta get going'," Iggy said nervously.

"Yeah, we gotta go pick up Ig's date!" Fang joked. Iggy punched him in the arm.

"Ok, that's enough," Dr. Martinez said, breaking up the 'fight'. "Let's all get in the car. We don't want to be late!"

"Yeah, 'cuz out of everything else, we're worried about tardiness," I muttered under my breath. Fang smirked.

"Where to Iggy?" Dr. Martinez asked as we piled into the car.

"About three miles due east, turn right, then four miles north," he replied.

I leaned forward. "English, Ig." He nodded.

"Right, um, it's on Dardelle I think," he said.

"Ok, I know exactly where that is," Dr. Martinez assured as she pulled out of the driveway.

We drove to Iggy's date's house, silent most of the way except for my mom giving Ella her 'safety speech.' I nodded in agreement every-once-in-a-while just in case any of this was directed at me. I looked over at Iggy. His sightless eyes were jumping back and forth, like they always did when he was anxious. His fingers were tapping his knees rapidly and his palms looked sweaty.

We're here, Iggy," Dr. Martinez said as we pulled up to the house. It looked fairly nice, with an open black barred-gate leading to the doorway.

"Go get em' tiger," I said supportively, placing my hand on his shoulder. Iggy let out a deep breath and slowly opened the car door. I patted his shoulder as he cautiously exited the car.

Iggy walked up to the house, as if he had done it a million times, and rang the doorbell, A tall redheaded girl answered the door, wearing a stunning white halter topped dress. I looked over at Fang, who had perked up in the last few seconds. Have I mentioned how much he likes redheads? Anyway, she leaned over and hugged Iggy, waved good-bye to someone inside, then closed the door behind her. I jumped in the back seat with Fang as Iggy led his date to the car.

"Just can't get enough of me, can ya?" he joked.

"Shut up," I said, playfully punching him in the arm. He rubbed it, pretending it hurt. I smirked.

When Iggy got to the car with his date, he opened the door and ushered her in, taking the seat closest to the door. She was laughing like he had just said something absolutely hilarious.

"Hi, I'm Sarah," he said between giggles. She held out her hand out for me to shake. I took it reluctantly. "What's your name?"

"Max," I said. "And this is Nick and that's Ella."

She turned and looked at everybody. "Nice to meet you," she said a little too politely, like she was overcompensating. She studied me and Fang closely. "Are you two, like, going together?" she asked. I saw Dr. Martinez raise her eyebrows in the rearview mirror.

Fang and I looked at each other. "Ummm……No," I said smoothly. Boy do I have a way with words.

"Okay," she said uncaringly. She turned back to start talking with Iggy.

"Keep an eye on her," I said loud enough for only Fang to hear.

"Got it," he whispered back.

We finally got to the dance and Dr. Martinez took one last picture before driving away.

"I'm not crying," she explained. "I'm just happy."

"Bye, mom," Ella said. She kissed her cheek and turned around to rejoin the group as Dr. Martinez drove away.

"So let's get this party started," Sarah said. She took Iggy's hand and started running towards the school gym, putting all of us on edge.

"Definitely watch her."