Be sure to check out the illustrations of the characters and the girls formal dresses on my deviantart account sxXlonelybelovid!
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It was Saturday afternoon and sophomore girls plus their boyfriends and dates were going dress/tie shopping at the Westchester Mall. They were all standing at the directory board at the entrance when Max clapped a couple times and everyone looked at him.
"Ok Folks so were gonna draw numbers from a hat…" Max started receiving nods, "We're going in groups of four!" He added holding a beanie up. He started by holding the hat up to Shylow who took out a small folded paper, then unfolded it and held up three fingers. Next was Kitty and she was a two. Then Mari who was also a two. Then Alex who was a one and Phoebe who was a three.
Trinity took the hat next and got a two. She passed it off to Layla who got a three. Blake and Piotr both got ones. Tabi was a three, Ruby got a one, and Bryce got a two. Max was a four with Evan, Jamie and Bobby. They was agreed to meet up in the food court by the T-Shirt printing window for lunch.
Alex, Blake, Piotr and Ruby all head off in one direction while the other groups got together. When they arrived at the store they were trying first. Alex and Piotr went off to wait for text's from their girlfriends about the color that they would be wearing since most of the girls wanted to match their boyfriends and/or dates. Ruby and Blake started scanning the racks of long almost princess like dresses.
Ruby found one almost instantly that she just fell in love with. It was yellow with sleeves that were a little bit puffy and the skirt was wide and ruffled. Blake told her that she looked like a princess when she came out of the dressing room.
"Would you take a few pics and send them to Bryce for me?" Ruby asked her friend who nodded and pulled out her phone snapping a few photos and sending them to the other girls' boyfriend. Several seconds later they both got a picture from Trinity of Bryce giving them a goofy smile and two thumbs up! Both of them laughed before the other girl stepped into a dressing room next to her friends.
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Group three which consisted of Shylow, Phoebe, Tabitha and Layla were about mid-way through the mall on the first floor. Shylow offered to help the girls look at dresses since Max was going to pick up a tie for him. All three girls found dresses within about twenty minutes and decided to take turns trying them on.
First Phoebe came out of the dressing room wearing a purple floor length dress with a short lose sleeves. The skirt had several layers including the top which spilt down the front to form an upside down V shape. When she stepped out, received several thumbs up, pictures were taken and sent to Bobby she stepped back into the dressing room and Tabitha traded places with her.
She came out wearing a floor length dress that was not all that princess like. It was magenta with one poofy sleeve and a long white sash around the belt. Despite how it didn't fit the theme of the dance she definitely looked great. The girls all told her how pretty she looked and sent a few pictures to Evan who decided to go as friends with her. He texted back a simple "Boom Boom" which made them laugh.
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Trinity was up next and of course it took a million tries for her to find the right dress. Her final choice had silk looped sleeves in black. The boddess was red with glitter and the skirt had many layers that looked like flower petals. They sent pictures to Jamie and Max, Max called her squealing then laughing and Jamie texted her that she looked beautiful.
Then Mari came out wearing a gown that had black strapped sleeves that layed in the middle of her upper arms with a green glittered boddess and a black skirt with ruffles at the bottom. When she got a response from Alex she laughed announcing that he said it was righteous.
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Kitty walked out with a dark Peach floor length dress that had a ribbon criss-crossing on the boddess and a white strip of silk for a belt. She had sent her boyfriend a few pictures and he called giving her several compliments in English and in Russian that made her blush.
Layla found a Blue silk gown with bows holding the layered skirt into ruffles. It matched the blue in her eyes perfectly and everyone who was with her went speechless when she came out wearing it. She took it as a good sign and decided that it was the perfect choice.
Lastly was Blake who bought the first dress she found. It was sleeves with a white glittered Boddess and the skirt had two layers colored in a light peach. The top layer was ruffled like Layla's but held up with roses instead of bows. Everyone in her group said she looked great and she had them snap a picture which she sent to Layla, as well as her dad and brother. A moment later she got a call from Darius.
"Hey Sis how's it hangin'?" He asked her as she changed back into her clothes and went to ring up her dress.
"It's alright… what do you think of the dress?" She responded getting a chuckle.
"Well you looked great but I don't know what it's for…" He told her making her roll her eyes.
"We have a fall formal dance every year!" She informed him as she paid and made her way over to her friends. As she finished her conversation with her older brother, the group met back up together in the food court all of them getting food and discussing what not with each other.
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After the group started to head back to school Blake and Layla decided to take a detour to the park where they went to the pond and sat down on the grass. Layla lifted some of the water slightly and splashed it in front of a few children across the pond who started laughing. Blake smiled and cautiously wrapped an arm around the blonde girl. Layla turned to look over at her before she softly placed a kiss on the dark haired girls cheek and rested her head on the others shoulder.
"I knew you were some kind of a dyke!" Blake heard a voice call out behind her, "I just knew it!" Blake recognized the voice to be that of former institute student Ana Earnhart. Blake and Layla stood up, Turning to see Ana standing there with Wanda, Fred, Todd, Lance and a slightly broken looking Pietro.
"Who are you and who gives you the right to talk about either of us like that?" Layla questioned getting a laugh from the shape shifter.
"You have no right to give me OR my girlfriend shit Ana!" Blake added wrapping her arm back tighter around Layla's waist, "Let's just get out of here Layla…" Blake suggested getting a nod from the Blonde girl. Pietro looked at her with sad eyes as they turned and walked away before his people head off in the opposite direction.
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Janie Mae and Raeleah were sitting in the sitting room on the first floor looking over at Illyana and her three roommates.
"I can't believe I had to spend a whole week after school in detention because of her!" Raeleah told the winged girl who gritted her teeth and nodded.
"We need to get pay back!" Janie responded before smirking over at her friend and winking.
"What are you thinking?" Raeleah asked getting a chuckle in response.
"The night of the highschool dance most of the teachers will be in the danger room chaperoning so then would be the perfect time to teach her a little lesson… maybe say we take a tip from my good old friend 'Carrie'!" Janie exclaimed getting a wicked and wide eyed nod from the green hair girl.
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So hope you all enjoyed that! Chapter 9 is going to be the dance itself so buckle up and get ready for some… Fiery Drama of sorts…