Chapter 10

It was now May 1st, Anne Maria had moved back to New Jersey, and the Jr. and Senior Prom are coming at the end of the month. Mike, of course, is asking Zoey to the Prom; but he hopes she'll like to go, from what happened during Valentine's Day, she might say 'no'.

Mike was sitting in his room, watching some TV and flipping through channels, when a knock had came at his door. He stops and turns the TV off and starts walking towards his bedroom door.

"Come in," He says as he opens it and sees his dad, Jack.

"Oh…umm…come on in dad." Jack steps into his room and Mike closes the door behind him.

"Mike…your mother wants you to go out and look for something nice for prom." Mike looks at him, thinking what to say.

"Wait, she WANTS me to go to prom?" Jack shakes his head 'yes'.

"Dad…it's not that I don't want to go. It's just that…" Mike couldn't think of anything, but he had to agree.

"Fine dad…when do I need to go shopping?"

"In about a week or two…at the most." Mike nods and sits right back down on his bed.

"I'll come and get ya when dinner's read, ok?" Mike looks up at him and nods.

"Ok day…see ya,"

"See you as well." And so, Jack leaves the room.

Mike starts to think about a lot of things, mostly about him and Zoey's future. When Zoey had ended up getting eliminated, she came directly to him; Dawn had predicted their future, saying that they'll get married and having children of their own. That thought made Mike smiles a lot, he would love to start a family with Zoey…but knew that the nerve breaking, hard part had to come first…the proposal.

He then starts to think whether he should propose or not; he knew that they're only seventeen years old, but he heard that a few seventeen's get engaged. In fact, he's seen 'That 70's Show', and say Eric proposing to Dana…and they're only seventeen. He then sighs nervously, still having thoughts on it.

Zoey was having the same talk with her parents about the Prom; she felt like she wanted to go, but doesn't at the same time. She remembers what had happened during the 'Valentine's Day Dance', and will never forget it. But she knew that Anne Maria had moved back to New Jersey, so nothing like that will never happened again.

She was now sitting on her bed as well, having some future thoughts about her and Mike, and they were pretty good. She was thinking about what their children would look and be like, and their wedding, and growing old together. All of those thought were spiraling though out her head.

Friday,

"Ok class, don't forget about that last piece of homework for the school year, class dismiss." It was now lunch, and Mike was going to ask Zoey out to Prom.

Not only that…but he had a plan: He's going to ask her to Prom, have a great time with her…and propose.

Yes, propose…he had decided to propose to her. He knew it was a little too early, but he also knew that they only had one more year of school after this year, and two to four years of college…maybe even more than that.

Mike spots Zoey at their table already, waiting for him. He smiles and makes his way over toward her; she sees him and smiles as well. Mike then takes a seat next to her, and then they were dismissed to get their lunch.

After getting their lunch, they sit down at their table again, enjoying each other's company. Mike finally gets the erg to asked Zoey out to Prom.

"Hey Zoey…how about we go to Jr. Prom together?" Zoey looks at him right after taking a bite of her pizza, and she couldn't help but to smile.

"Of course Mike…I'll love to." Mike looked both happy and surprised at the same time.

"Are you sure Zoey, because…umm…remember…"

"Ohhh that's not going too happened again for two reasons," Mike looked just happy now.

"One, Anne Maria is back at that 'Hell on Earth'. Secondly…no one from other schools can come to the Prom here."

"Well…ok Zoey. And I'll…pick you up at 6:00 on the 30th?"

"Yes Mike," Mike gives her a quick peck on the cheek as he gets up and takes his tray; he offers to take Zoey's tray as well.

While Mike is doing that…Zoey is just watching him dreamily; she felt like Mike was the best thing in the world to her, and she knew that Mike felt the same way about her.

Once Mike get's back, they continue to chat a little longer, until the bell rang and they had to finish up school.

Two weeks later-Friday,

After school, Mike went out to the mall and bought a nice new shirt, some new black pants and shoes, also some colon and some deodorant. But while he was on his way out of the mall, he stopped dead in his tracks.

Mike turns his head and sees a jewelry store, thinking if he should enter and buy a ring or not. But he lost the battle of his emotions and just heads on in the store.

"Excuse me…anybody." Mike calls out.

"Coming," Say's a woman's voice, probably a teen.

Once the woman who talked came out, Mike looked at her: She was defiantly a teen, probably sixteen or seventeen years old, had the same black hair and style like Anne Maria, wore a top that looked a lot like Anne Maria's but black, wore Blue jean, had black eyes, had a pale looking skin color. And Mike figured it out at the moment…that it was Anne Maria's cousin, Charlotte.

Charlotte sees Mike walking over towards her, and she knew who he was.

"Hey…aren't you that guy at school that has M.P.D?" Mike sighs and nods. Charlotte swears that she could see a little tear going down his eyes.

"Oh Mike…I'm not being mean…like those jack-asses." Mike's eyes widen.

"Wha- you mean you've seen people picking on me?"

"Well yeah! It's been going on at school for years now. I've been telling them to lay off, hell, I've even been talking to teachers and the staff about it…but they don't do shit about it." Mike looked a little better, and continued.

"So…what brings you here Mike?"

"I'm here…for an engagement ring." Charlotte's eyes widen a little bit.

"What? But Mike…aren't you only seventeen, you're not old enough…sorry bud." Mike looks at her for a moment, and sighs again.

"I know…but I was planning on proposing to…this girl,"

"Awww, so sweet of you Mike…but I still don't think I should,"

"I'll help you with your college paper for next year."

"Ok, deal."

Mike couldn't believe his luck about this; he felt as if he was dreaming about the whole thing.

Charlotte gets out a small, black velvet box, and inside was a diamond engagement ring.

"Ok Mike buddy, here ya go."

"Thanks a lot Charlotte,"

"No problem Mike,"

"What's the price?"

"Let's see here (Does the math and looks at Mike), about $20.30." His eyes widen a little bit and pulls out his wallet and gets out his debate card, hands it to her, and she uses it and gives it back to him.

"By the way Mike…who's the lucky lady?"

"Zoey Greenwald," Charlotte looks pretty both surprised and unsurprised at the same time.

"Whoa…didn't see that coming,"

"You didn't?"

"Well yes…and no. I've seen you two together, talking, laughing…kissing." Mike's face was now bright red with embarrassment, Charlotte giggles.

"Oh Mike…its ok."
"Well…thanks Charlotte and I guess I'll…see you on Monday?"

"Yeah…and say 'hi' to Zoey for me."

"Ok, see ya soon."

Mike was now at home, looking at the ring, thinking about the perfect moment to ask her to marry him after the Prom.

"I kind of have a good, yet nervous, feeling about this…" Mike begins talking to himself.

"But…I kind of like it."

And so he puts to ring back in the box, puts it away in his desk, and gets ready for bed.

Well here ya go! XD

For Charlotte, I used Anne Maria's old desing 4 the show. I thought it looked like a Charlotte, so I used her.

Only two more chapter until Prom Night! ^^

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