"Loren! What are you doing we need to get going!" My mother exclaimed and she abruptly turned on my lights, causing my body to flinch at the sudden change.

"Why?" I asked as I turned around and lay on my stomach, trying to bury head underneath my pillow. "Because you have to go to school and then the studio." My mother explained. "And don't forget that Prom is tonight too." She added.

How could I forget? It's all that everyone has been talking about during the last few days of school. Everyone there is going, even people who don't have dates. Tonight will be a special night, I know it. "Come on, you need to get going." I groaned and tried to bury my head even further into my pillow and I started slowly to move my legs. "I knew I should have kicked Eddie out earlier last night." Mom stared as she pulled my warm covers off of me.

"I'm glad that you didn't, Eddie and I came up with some pretty great stuff." I stated. I then turned over to my back and slowly sat up, resting my head on the backboard. "Yeah, it sounded like you and Eddie were really in the zone."

"Wait, you could hear us?" I asked raising my head to look at her. "Yes Loren, the walls are not that thick." She added. "So you worked on a new duet?" She asked. "Yes, that's what Jake and the label wants." I explained. "And that's what you want?" She asked. "Yes, mom it is what I want." I stated. "Good, well food is one the table when you are ready to eat." She stated before turning and leaving my room.

I slowly climbed out of bed and shuffled my way to the closet, truing to figure out what to wear. After a few moments I decided in my blue dress, with a few small flowers spaced randomly throughout it, the dress I want to wear then I made the Mars video. My last day of high school ever. Wow. Time has gone by so fast, and graduation is tomorrow. That will be crazy!

I walked out of my room and grabbed my back pack off of my couch as my mother ranted about how I am all grown up now, and how soon I won't need her. That's a lie of course and i have told her this repetitively. I said my goodbyes to her and Max then made my way over to Melissa's house to pick her up. She likes riding in my car because I could finally pay for to fix the engine that had gave us issues since the beginning of junior year. I texted her once I arrived at her driveway and in a few minutes she came out in a bright summer outfit.

School today was bitter sweet. I had felt like, for a while now, that high school wasn't my world anymore but there was something different about knowing that this will be the last time I walk through these halls as a student here. I said my goodbyes to my school friends and a few of my favorite teachers. I noticed that the classroom walls we empty alloy with the hallway. The garbage cans were filled to the rim with random parts of assignments and locker junk. The day felt like it was on hyper speed and when we said our goodbye, they were not true because tonight is prom and tomorrow is that faithful and long awaited graduation.

As the final bell rang my classmates screamed out in excitement about surviving high school. I found Mel and Adam by our normal lunch spot and gave both of them a huge hug. We have been through so much this past year and it was can handle that; we can handle anything that life throws at us. Once Mel and I pulled away I felt a hand on my left shoulder. I turned around and saw that it was Cameron.

"Hey, Loren, I just wanted to thank you one more time for helping me with Pre-Calculus me this year. Without you I wound have never gotten accepted into the college that I wanted to." He said. I looked up at him and sheepishly grinned. "I didn't do much." I stated. "You're kidding right?" He asked and I raised my eyebrows up with slight confusion. "Without you I wouldn't have even been given the chance to fulfill my dream. So thank you." He added and before I knew it he pulled me into a tight embrace and I hugged him back; after all we are friends. After a few moments I slowly began to pull away, but Cam's hands tightened around my back and pulled me even closer to him than I was before. I would have pushed away from him but he whispered something in my ear.

"Don't let them change you."

My breathing started to stagger and I took a deep breath before he finally let me go. "Goodbye Loren." He added and before I could reply he turned on his heel and walled away. I gently ran my fingers through my hair and then found Melissa once more. She was saying goodbye to a few classmates who were in our math class. She saw me approaching and she knew that we needed to go, after all I have a meeting with Kelly that I am already late for and Mel being Mel she knows my schedule better than myself most days.

I arrived at Jake's office a good forty five minutes late. I felt bad but I knew that she wouldn't be too mad; after all it was the last day of her having to deal with me being a student. I walked into Jake's office because I heard Kelly's voice seeping through the door frame. I opened it and saw three people standing in the room. I recognized all of them. Kelly was sting at Jakes desk twirling a pencil back and forth between her fingers and then there were two people sitting in the chairs opposite if her. A man and a woman. I knew that they were Leah and Jeremy. I closed the door after I has fully entered the room and all three of the turned their heads in my direction. Kelly smiled, Jeremy face stayed neutral, but Leah glared at me. What did I do to her? Seriously.

"I'm glad you could finally make it." Kelly said and I tilted my head to the right and looked at her intently. "Last day of school so I had to hang around and say my goodbyes. She nodded in understanding before she dismissed the two people before her telling them to wait outside for a moment so she could talk to me in private. They complied and exited the room. I knew that she wanted to discuss a your with me once my album comes out in a few months and apparently these things take a long time to plan so we have to start now. After about ten minutes of discussing dates and places of where I would like to visit I needed to use the rest room so I dismissed myself.

I made my way out of Jake's office and down the hall to the right where the bath rooms were located. I passed the small kitchen and saw Leah and Jeremy siting very closely together at a small round table near the back corner of the room. I stopped outside the door frame and listened. I could tell that whatever they were talking about was serious by the stern looks on their face.

"We will be fine." Leah assured Jeremy. "You say that, but it doesn't affect you." He replied. "What do you mean it doesn't affect me? I came up with it after all."

"But I am the one who went through with it." He countered. "You have nothing to worry about. I'm sure that thus will all blow over soon and we won't have to worry about this problem anymore."

"This problem?" He asked raiding his voice slightly. "This problem can cost us everything." He stated. "I know." Leah replied. "But there is no point worrying about these 'what ifs' so we just have to act like everything is fine." I heard a chair slide across the white tile floor and a few footsteps. "You're right." Jeremy added. "It's probably nothing,"

I quickly rushed into the bathroom when I heard more footsteps coming closer to the exit. What the heck were they talking about? I decided to dismiss these thought and headed back in the direction of Jake's office. Kelly and I finished up talking about my soon to be tour and I left there with two hours before pictures and grand march.

I drove home and it started to lightly sprinkle. Great, it's raining on prom night; out pictures are going to suck now. I rushed into my house trying not to get soaking wet. I made my way into my room and saw my mother and Mel sitting on my bed clearly waiting for me to arrive home. "Lo, your late." Mel stated. "So I've heard." I replied.

I glanced over at my mom and she was smiling. "Come on we have to start getting ready." Mel and I both nodded our heads and I made my way to the bathroom. I changed out of my clothes and put on white booty shorts and a nude sticky bra. I then put on a normal bra over the top and a zip up sweat shirt so I wouldn't mess up my hair once my mother finished with it. I noticed that Mel already had got her nails done after school so she proclaimed that she could him mine while my mom was curling my hair.

An hour. That's how long my mother took to do my hair, apparently my extensions don't hold curl very well. I made my way back to the bathroom and put on a small amount of makeup on, that's all I wanted. Mel looked at me from my bed. "Oh my gosh, Loren, you are hot! She exclaimed. I tilted my head slightly to the left and narrowed my eyes at her. She always said this. "Yeah right, you look five thousand times better than me." I countered. "I know right!" She admitted as she gently placed her right hand on the back of her up do. I scoffed at her and my mother entered the room.

"You both look lovely." Mom added. She set two plates down onto my desk with some cheese and crackers. Dinner wasn't for a while and with what we had planned tonight I'm guessing that my mom figured that we would need our energy. "Where's Max?" I asked as Meade my way over to one of the pales, took it, and sat on the edge of my bed. "He is with Eddie, making sure that he is getting ready." She answered, and I smiled. "He is not telling anything is he?" I asked. "Nope it's going to be a total surprise." She assured me. "Great!"

Melissa and I finished eating and started to get into our dresses. It took all of us ten minutes to figure out my dress and where my arms when because there we pre so many different cut out areas. I looked into my floor length mirror and analyzed my appearance. I hope Eddie with like it. I put in my jewelry and found the shoes that Mel had picked out. Her and I finished getting ready at just about the same time and we slowly walked out of my room.

Waiting. That's all that is left now. We are waiting for our dates to arrive and my mother already has the camera plastered to her hand trying to capture every moment of this evening that she can, it was weird seeing my mother do this and not Mel. After a few more minutes there was a knock at the door and my mom answered it. It was Adam and he made his way into my house and mom started to take more pictures.

About ten more minutes passed and I haven't heard anything from Eddie. I transferred my phone back ant forth between my hands waiting for him to text me, or something, anything. "He will be here soon." My mom stated and with that the door bell rang and this time I hoped off of the couch and opened the front door. It was the second time that I have seen Eddie in a tux, but I couldn't get over the fact about how extremely handsome he looked. I smiled at him and bit my lower lip. I looked into his face and saw his eyes wandering all over my body.

"Loren, you look amazing." And that's all that he said before he took my right hand and pulled me into his arms. I didn't mind this one bit. We were the same level for once because of my heals and that was a different feeling. He lightly kissed my lips and placed one of his hands on my bare waist.

"Thanks, you don't look too bad yourself." I added once we pulled away, but I grabbed his shoulders and pulled him closer to me concerned more; I missed the heat of his body. I hugged him tightly and whispered seductively into his ear.

"I hope you are prepared for your surprise."

Authors note:

Alright, so I haven't updated this story in a while and I'm sorry about that. I know that there are mistakes and I will fix them later. I just wanted to get this out there. I'm not really happy with this chapter, but oh well. I will try to be better about updating this story more regularly but I have been having too much fun writing my other stories and this one sort of skipped my mind. I haven't got a lot of feed back on this one on the past few chapters. Am I still heading in a direction that you all like? Please let me know! And thank you to all who reviewed, and followed on this story. It means a lot And please continue to do so! Please check out my other two stories and let me know what you think of them!

Dis Clamor: I don't own hollywood heights or the characters, just this plot line.

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