*Diggie's POV*

It had been almost a month since my last attempt to kiss Maddie. I had since then tried to avoid Joey as best as possible seeing as that was the third time he had butted in on my moment with Maddie. Since then there hasn't been a moment like it to try and have our first kiss. It isn't like you can just walk up to someone and be like, "oh, this is your first kiss, it's not special or anything." and just kiss them. There has to be a specific mood, something good has to have just happened or something dramatic or even just some time alone in the right setting at the right time. It can't be just spontaneous, it has to be special, some might even say perfect.

At this time, the school dance was coming up, homecoming to be exact and I was planning on asking Maddie. It seemed like the perfect time. I mean really, what could be a better story to tell our kids than, "we had our first kiss at the homecoming dance and it was really romantic and perfect." I made myself blush. 'Our kids'. I walked down the hall and automatically went right to Maddie's locker.

"Hey, Rooney," I said.

"Hey, Diggie," she replied. It was like the first school dance all over again, me here like a nervous wreck, her playing with that bracelet. I smiled.

"Mads, would you go to homecoming with me?" I asked.

"Yeah," she replied. She snorted a few times and had a goofy grin on her face. It was adorable.

"So I'd better get to class," I said.

"See you," Maddie said, and I briskly walked away. I thought we'd gotten over this awkwardness stage in our relationship.

*Maddie's POV*

"Liv, what am I going to do?" I asked. It was the night of the homecoming dance and I was asking Liv for advice about Diggie. Who thought my life would come to that?

"Which dress should I wear?" Liv asked. "This one or this one."

"It doesn't matter, what am I going to do about Diggie?"

"Which one says homecoming queen?!" she asked, dramatically.

"I said it doesn't matter, I want my first kiss to be perfect and I get the feeling that's what Diggie's plans are for tonight."

"Well this dress says, I lost, too bad," Liv sighed." "but this one says, I'm too good for you!" she added sassily.

"Liv! You aren't listening!" I exclaimed.

"Huh?" Liv said, looking up. I facepalmed.

"I said, I need advice about my first kiss with Diggie," I explained, again. "What if it isn't perfect?"

"The way you and Diggie fell for each other? No doubt it'll be perfect," Liv told me.

"You sure?" I asked.

"Trust me, Maddie, I'm the queen of hearts," she said, and went back to her closet to find another dress.

*Diggie's POV*

My palms were so sweaty when I walked into the dance. I had Maddie by my side and evrything was perfect, but I couldn't help but be nervous at the same time. The music was currently upbeat and everyone was just jumping up and down to the beat. I was planning on waiting until a slow song to ask Maddie to dance, so I went over with a few other guys from the team and started jumping along with them. I saw Maddie go over by Willow and began talking to her. I knew a slow song had to come on eventually, and when it did, I had to be ready.

It had been about fifteen minutes before the first slow song of the night came on. I pushed my way through the crowd to find Maddie. I couldn't see her right away but needed to find her. Then I saw her, she was looking around, assumingly for me and we made eye contact. I went over and as romantically as possible held out my hand and asked:

"Can I have this dance?" Fortunately I had wiped my hands in my pants and they were no longer sweaty, so when I took Maddie's hand, it was perfect.

"Love to," she replied, smiling. She was so beautiful, I almost melted. I loved her so much, but with what we had now, I couldn't bare to ruin it by telling her. I put my hands on her waist hesitantly and Maddie wrapped hers around my neck. It was perfect so far. We began to slowly move to the sound of the music and the rest of the universe seemed to disappear. It was like it was just the two of us in the moment and I was on cloud nine. Then it happened. My eyes locked onto hers and our faces drew nearer. My eyes were drawn to her lips and we were so close I could almost feel sparks. Then the music changed.

The sound of hip hop dance music filled the air and snapped me back to reality. Maddie and I broke our embrace. We were so close. Then I saw that goofy nerdy fool running over.

"Hey, Diggie!" Joey shouted. "I got them to change the music so we could break dance! Whaddaya say? Reunion for old times sake?" Before I knew it, I was being dragged off once more and Maddie was left abandoned in the crowd.