Sam
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Get. Me. Out. Of. Here. My mother. Yes, my mother…..took me to this building. A building known as Goodman's. Basically your high fashion needs store. We're on this floor, filled with top to bottom with dresses of all kind. I've never seen this side of her but she does reminisce a lot of high school. First I thought it was because she probably had me at seventeen but then I did the math and found out that I would be the age of Spencer if that happened. Maybe this is the last reminder of her youth? But she's fifty-four! We walk around on another floor but this one is for teens. Finally, something my kind. When I like something, I look. When I love it, I run to it. So far there has been one dress that I've ran for. It was a dark blue heart-bust dress that flowed to the floor but I think I should avoid the color. I have so many blue things. I really want to get something that screams 'Gonna Wear This Once'. So I've been thinking about pink. I know, forbidden color in my eyes but I heard that light pink dresses are really in this year. I admit to loving the pastel color trend! And not to mention I have two pairs of high waisted shorts. I see all the cute clothes as we pass by. I notice that a lot of girls have been getting neon colored dresses. That's for halloween only. We walk into this room filled with dresses. I gasp as I see it hanging on the hanger, in the pink section. My mom raises an eyebrow to me as I stare off at it. It's
" Gorgeous." I say to myself and run up to it.
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Carly
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The prom is only in a week. Sam told me how Freddie asked her out to the prom. Which is cute! She told me about her dress. But hasn't shown a picture to me. Or even Freddie. She won't admit it but, she's looking forward to going to prom. I know, I can see it in her eyes. She went from prom poster destroyer to gushing over her dress. Sam has a hidden girly girl inside of her that only comes out every once in a while. It's nice. I'm enjoying this.
" So are you and Freddie going as lovers?" I ask. Sam shoots her head to me as we sit on the couch. The bowl of popcorn sits in her lap as we watch Horrible Bosses. It's like five in the afternoon and we have no school work.
" What?" She exclaims.
" Are you going as lovers or friends?" She looks away. She's starting to look pissed. What did I just do? Oh no!
" What are you trying to tell me Carly?" I just shut my mouth. Not say anything. I just stare off at the t.v. screen. " Do you think that just because I'm going to prom with Freddie, that Freddie and I are in love again? It's not that way. We're just friends. I'm not gonna give him anything and he is not expecting anything. We are just friends, nothing more. I admit that I am happy that I'm going to the prom with Freddie but only as a friend."
" I didn't mean to make you upset. I was just wondering. And who says you have to give Freddie a little something. I know nothing about Keegan and I'm not giving anything." I say before popping in a piece of popcorn. " Any way who wants to be cliché and lose their virginity on prom night. Who even insists on it?"
" The people who create chick flicks. They get it inside your head that prom is the night of all nights and if you don't give the boy a good look at what you have, that the night was not worth it." She says. We continue to watch the movie and Charlie Day's character starts singing the song ' That's Not My Name' in the car. We both laugh and then continue the movie. I don't know how much time has past but then Sam says.
" What if I told you I've been questioning Freddie and I's status." Sam says. I look at her and she looks at me. Should I even ask if it is relationship or friendship status?
" Just know what you want. Don't end fucking things up between you two." I reply.
" Spoken like a true girl."
" You bet'cha. Not to mention we don't need another awkward moment in this friendship."
" But he did ask you if there was a chance that you could love him again."
" True. And I told him that it's not gonna happen after what went down between you two. It's not worth it. You're my friend Sam and I won't let a hormonal teenage boy get between our friendship."
" You got that from a chick flick."
" They speak wisely my friend. They speak wisely." I say, trying to put a point across.
" Remind me never to watch a chick flick with you again." She says throwing a piece of popcorn at my face.
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Sam
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I toss and turn in my bed thinking about what Carly had said. ' Are you going as lovers or friends?' It's just that….I admit to that if I had to go to prom with anyone, It would be with Freddie. If I had to be cliché and loose my virginity on prom night….it would be with Freddie. But that is totally not happening! And there is no way that is happening. May I please empathize this, It's never gonna happen. But now I feel like that I have to make a point across to Freddie that, nothing is gonna happen between us. We're just friends, that we have been through a lot but it would be nice to just be two mature teenagers and go prom and not make a drama scene of epic proportion. 'Cause truthfully, I don't want people or me to remember prom as the biggest Sam and Freddie blow-up. No one wants that but mostly me. I just feel like I have to tell him.