Chapter Two
Logan and I met in grade 8. Logan was new to our school because his family had moved from Kentucky. The first time I met Logan was at lunch one day. The BSC was swamped with jobs because of a PTA meeting and Logan offered to help us out. It was really sweet. We became friends very quickly, but he didn't want to join the club full time. It was really awkward in meetings, like once, Claudia almost said 'bra' in front of him. It was a big deal at the time. Anyways, he ended up becoming an associate member. Logan and I dated all the way through high school. We broke up for awhile in grade 8 because Logan was becoming too controlling over me. I was and still am very shy so Logan thought that he could make decisions for me. I got sick of that pretty quickly and I broke it off. Eventually we worked out our problems and we've been together ever since. My eyes fell on a picture of Logan and I posed in front of my fire place, going to senior prom…
"Mary Anne!" Logan called to me through the crowed halls of Stoneybrook High School.
"Hi!" I called back. I started towards Logan and we started walking out the doors. It was a beautiful spring day and the sun was shining. Logan took my hand as we started down the street.
"How was your day?" I asked him.
"Great. How about you?" Logan asked, smiling. Inside, I melted. Logan's smile is enough to make a girl's heart stop.
"Okay. I've got a huge Biology test on Thursday."
"But you're good at Biology. You'll do fine." Logan said.
"I hope so. I need to get a good grade in the course."
"Any word from Yale?" Logan asked. I had applied to Yale University and I was waiting for a response.
"Nope." I said, looking at Logan. He was staring at the sidewalk.
"Logan? Is something wrong?" I asked.
"Oh, what? No, nothing's wrong. Mary Anne?"
"Yes?"
"Would you like go to prom with me?"
"Aw, Logan! Of course!" I said, giving him a hug. I already knew that we'd go together, but I was waiting for an invitation. And now I had one.
"Good. I'm glad." Logan said, kissing my cheek. We walked all the way home in silence, but I knew we were both very happy. I said good-bye to Logan and ran inside.
"Dawn! Dawn!" I yelled, running up the stairs. Dawn came out of her room.
"Mary Anne! What's wrong?" she asked.
"Nothing's wrong! Logan asked me to prom!" I cried.
"Oh Mary Anne! That's great!" Dawn said, hugging me.
"Now we need to go shopping for dresses." I said. Dawn was going to prom with Austin Bentley-her boyfriend.
"How about Saturday?" Dawn asked. I nodded. We both squealed and giggled all the way to Claudia's house for a BSC meeting. Everyone in the club had been invited to go to prom, but Dawn and I wanted to go shopping for our dressed with just the two of us.
Saturday finally came and we got an early start. As we were heading for Dawn's car, my dad called me back.
"Find something nice, okay Mary Anne?"
"I will, Dad. I know what you do and don't like."
"I know. And, um, here." Dad handed me his charge card. "Nothing too expensive, okay? Same goes for Dawn."
"Thanks Dad!" I cried, giving him a hug. I ran to the car and told Dawn.
"Great!" she said. She pulled out of the driveway and we drove to the mall. We parked and set in for a day of shopping.
After 7 hours of shopping, we pulled back into the driveway. We had each found a gorgeous dress. My dress was a red silk. It had off the shoulder sleeves and they came together in a nice knot in the back of the dress. The front had a V-neck drop that didn't show too much. The skirt was long and full, with sequins on it. I had found beautiful red satin heels to match. Dawn's dress was a beautiful blue color and matched her eyes perfectly. Her dress was strapless and had fine bead work over the bodice and it was a tight fitting dress all the way to the floor. Her shoes were blue and had beads on them.
When we tried them on for Dad and Sharon, they were thrilled and said we were both beautiful. Now all I had to do was wait for prom to come!
Finally, finally, prom came. Dawn and I went to the hair salon to get our hair done. The hair dresser curled my hair and put it up with a lot of pins. Dawn's hair was also curled, but it hung loose. We went home and did our make-up and nails. Then I went to my room and took out the dress. I put it on and when I looked at myself in the mirror, I felt absolutely beautiful.
"Wait till Logan sees this." I said to no-one in particular. I heard the door-bell ring and I went into the hall, where Dawn came out of her room. She looked absolutely gorgeous.
Together we went down the stairs and appeared. Logan and Austin had made plans to car-pool in Austin's dad's Mercedes. As we appeared, their smiles grew. Dawn and I split and I walked over to Logan.
"Hi Mary Anne. You look gorgeous." Logan said, slipping a corsage onto my wrist.
"Thank you. You look very handsome yourself." I said. It was true. Logan was wearing a black tuxedo. I've seen him in a tux before, but it wasn't like this.
"Okay, into the living room for pictures." Dad said. We all groaned, but we went to the living room. Dad took some of Logan and me, then Austin and Dawn, and then Dawn and me, and finally all of us.
We finally left and arrived at school. We went in and we had a great time. Logan and I danced to every song we knew. The evening was over way too soon. As Logan walked me up the front steps, he gave me a long good-night kiss.