"It's no use guys, none of this stuff is going to fit. You were all smaller then me before I was three months pregnant." Carly sighed, looking at the pile of clothes her friends had donated as possible costumes for the Halloween dance.
"Did you try the purple overalls?" Delilah asked holding up a splotch of lavender corduroy.
"I did." Carly nodded.
"And?"
"Let's just say they'll only work if I want to go as Barney the dinosaur."
"Maybe you could go as a punk rocker, I bet Dean or Fulton would let you barrow some of their clothes." Samantha suggested.
"Have I sunk that low, I have to loan clothes from the two biggest players on the team?"
Connie raised her hand like a kindergartener waiting to be called on.
"You could wear my hockey jersey, it's pretty big, it has to be to fit over my pads."
"Or mine it's even bigger." Julie chimed in.
"Nope," Caroline declared throwing herself backwards on the bed. "I have the perfect idea, I'll just stay in the room tonight and catch up on my game shows."
"Carly, there is no way you're missing this dance." Cat told her bluntly.
"Look guys, it starts in and hour and I don't want to make you late, especially you Del, when's Luke getting here?" Carly referred to Delilah's Heath Ledger look a like boyfriend, that had graduated the year before and was now attended college in Michigan.
The curly haired blonde looked down at her watch and quickly hop up from the floor.
"Twenty minutes, I've gotta go start getting ready."
"Yes you do, you all do, so everyone that doesn't bunk in here, out, out , out." The girl shoed all her friends but Emily out and closed her door.
"So what's the real reason you're avoiding the dance?" Em asked walking to the closet and pulling out her out fit.
"Because I don't have a costume." Carly answered blandly.
"Carly, come on now, how stupid do you take me as? You're not going because you refuse have any fun without Banks."
"That's ludicrous Em."
"Is it?"
"Yes." Carly groaned, rolling over.
Carly kept her back to Emily pretending she'd fallen asleep, until she heard the sound of the door closing and her roommate leaving. She rolled back over and looked around her empty room, really wishing she was going to the dance. Carly was the type of person that loved to party and being social, but something in her mind kept telling her she didn't deserve to have a good time.
Banks walked into the gym and took a quick look around, not catching so much as a glimpse of his ex-girlfriend. He really hadn't expected Carly to be there, despite Amanda's rumor of her sister going with Griffon. It just didn't make sense to him, Carly had always called Griffon a pain in the ass, but then losing the one you love did do strange things to people. It had driven him to go to that dance in a ridiculous JFK costume, because Amanda was determined to be Marilyn Monroe.
"I'm going to run to the ladies' room and check my makeup before I start mingling, I'll be right back." Mandy kissed his cheek and went off toward the bathroom.
Banksie smiled at her as she walked away and then instantly he put the serious look back on his face, as he continued to search for Carly.
"She's not coming Banks." He heard a friendly voice behind him.
Adam turned to see a petite girl dressed up like Tinkerbell and a Peter Pan beside her.
"Oh, hey Delilah. Who's not coming?"
"Carly, Emily said she went to bed, so there's no use looking for her."
"I wasn't looking for her." Banks lied.
"Sure you weren't. Look I don't know what's going with you right now, but it's obvious to anyone with eyes you still have feelings for her. Just get over whatever's going on in your head and patch things up."
"Adam, who's this?" Amanda walked up nest to him and slipped her arm around his.
"Mandy, hi, I didn't hear you come back, uh this is a friend of mine Delilah Butters and the guy in the tights behind her his her boyfriend Luke." Banksie introduced her.
"Nice to meet you." Del stuck out her hand.
"Charmed." Mandy said snootily, using her free hand to tap Adam on the chest, completely ignoring Delilah's out stretched hand. "Let's dance sweetie."
"Yeah, okay. Talk to you later Del, nice seeing you Luke." Banks waved allowing his date to pull him away.
Twenty minutes later a dark haired girl entered the gym dressed in her pajamas, fuzzy slippers on her feet. In the crowded room she searched for faces she recognized, and eventually found a group within the groups, people that seemed to be oblivious to the rest of the congregation. Carly knew those were her friends.
She crossed the gymnasium and pushed her way through the dancers, finally reaching the Ducks. He had to admit the array of costumes they had chosen were slightly amusing to her. Samantha and Portman had gone as Pocahontas and John Smith, Emily and Luis went as JRR Tolkien's Aragorn and Eowyn and Charlie was Batman with Cat as his Cat-Women.
"Cat-Women Cat, not very clever." She joked admiring the other girls tight leather jump suit. "But it looks good."
Cat rolled her eyes beneath her mask and sighed.
"It was Charlie's idea, personally I think he just wanted to wear that rubber suit. So what are you doing here? I thought you weren't coming."
"I was thinking and I decided the best way for me to get over everything is by trying to live, I wasn't doing that sitting in my room. So here I am, hopefully it'll take my mind off things." Carly smiled, then as her eyes continued to scan the gym to take in the decorations and see other peoples costumes, then she noticed a couple sitting a few yards away. The boy was sitting on the chair and the girl was straddling his lap, practically drowning him in kisses. "Ugh, someone needs to tell the president and Ms. Monroe to get a room."
"Yeah…" Samantha agreed, not knowing what exactly else to say.
"Who do they think they are, anyway? You know what I'm going to tell them to knock that shit off, nobody wants to see that." Before anyone could get so much as a 'no wait.' she was on her way.
Carly stormed across the room and tapped the girl on the shoulder, Marilyn lifted her head from Kennedy's neck and Carly's mouth dropped.
"Amanda…" She gasped.
"Hey baby sister, here I'd like you to meet my date." She gestured to Adam. "Oh that's right, you already know each other." She smiled smugly.
"My sister Adam?" Caroline tried to keep her voice level. "Don't you have a heart, do you even have a soul?"
"Oh Caroline, you're not upset are you? I thought for sure you'd want Adam to at least keep it in the family."
Carly shot Banks a dirty look and still he said nothing to her. So she bit her lip, walked over to the refreshment table, grabbed a glass of punch and proceeded to dump in down the front of Mandy's white dress and letting it dribble into a sticky pink stain on Adam's crotch. Then she ran off in a stream of tears.
She was hutched in a ball, in the very back corner of the room, crying harder then she had in weeks, when one of her favorite songs began to play in the speakers beside her. The only problem was, the singer had an unusual Southern drawl.
"They read you Cinderella, you hoped it would come true, that one day your prince charming would come rescue you. You like romantic movies and you never fill forget, the way you felt when Romeo kissed Juliet." She lifted her head and there in front of her was Griffon Montgomery, dressed in a suit of armor and holding a microphone. He dropped to his knees in front of her and took one of her hands. "And all this time that you've been waiting, you don't have to wait no more. I could love you like that, I would make you my world, give heaven and Earth if you were my girl."
"Griffon…" Carly began but he placed his finger to her lips.
"Caroline Epson, I love you, I've been in love with you since the day I met you and if you'll let me, I'll be your knight in shining armor till the day I die. Will you just give me one chance?"
Carly blinked back the tears in her eyes and swallowed the huge lump that had formed in her throat and nodded feverishly. Griffon's face took on the worlds biggest smile as he picked her up and spun her around. It was time to start over.
"Did you try the purple overalls?" Delilah asked holding up a splotch of lavender corduroy.
"I did." Carly nodded.
"And?"
"Let's just say they'll only work if I want to go as Barney the dinosaur."
"Maybe you could go as a punk rocker, I bet Dean or Fulton would let you barrow some of their clothes." Samantha suggested.
"Have I sunk that low, I have to loan clothes from the two biggest players on the team?"
Connie raised her hand like a kindergartener waiting to be called on.
"You could wear my hockey jersey, it's pretty big, it has to be to fit over my pads."
"Or mine it's even bigger." Julie chimed in.
"Nope," Caroline declared throwing herself backwards on the bed. "I have the perfect idea, I'll just stay in the room tonight and catch up on my game shows."
"Carly, there is no way you're missing this dance." Cat told her bluntly.
"Look guys, it starts in and hour and I don't want to make you late, especially you Del, when's Luke getting here?" Carly referred to Delilah's Heath Ledger look a like boyfriend, that had graduated the year before and was now attended college in Michigan.
The curly haired blonde looked down at her watch and quickly hop up from the floor.
"Twenty minutes, I've gotta go start getting ready."
"Yes you do, you all do, so everyone that doesn't bunk in here, out, out , out." The girl shoed all her friends but Emily out and closed her door.
"So what's the real reason you're avoiding the dance?" Em asked walking to the closet and pulling out her out fit.
"Because I don't have a costume." Carly answered blandly.
"Carly, come on now, how stupid do you take me as? You're not going because you refuse have any fun without Banks."
"That's ludicrous Em."
"Is it?"
"Yes." Carly groaned, rolling over.
Carly kept her back to Emily pretending she'd fallen asleep, until she heard the sound of the door closing and her roommate leaving. She rolled back over and looked around her empty room, really wishing she was going to the dance. Carly was the type of person that loved to party and being social, but something in her mind kept telling her she didn't deserve to have a good time.
Banks walked into the gym and took a quick look around, not catching so much as a glimpse of his ex-girlfriend. He really hadn't expected Carly to be there, despite Amanda's rumor of her sister going with Griffon. It just didn't make sense to him, Carly had always called Griffon a pain in the ass, but then losing the one you love did do strange things to people. It had driven him to go to that dance in a ridiculous JFK costume, because Amanda was determined to be Marilyn Monroe.
"I'm going to run to the ladies' room and check my makeup before I start mingling, I'll be right back." Mandy kissed his cheek and went off toward the bathroom.
Banksie smiled at her as she walked away and then instantly he put the serious look back on his face, as he continued to search for Carly.
"She's not coming Banks." He heard a friendly voice behind him.
Adam turned to see a petite girl dressed up like Tinkerbell and a Peter Pan beside her.
"Oh, hey Delilah. Who's not coming?"
"Carly, Emily said she went to bed, so there's no use looking for her."
"I wasn't looking for her." Banks lied.
"Sure you weren't. Look I don't know what's going with you right now, but it's obvious to anyone with eyes you still have feelings for her. Just get over whatever's going on in your head and patch things up."
"Adam, who's this?" Amanda walked up nest to him and slipped her arm around his.
"Mandy, hi, I didn't hear you come back, uh this is a friend of mine Delilah Butters and the guy in the tights behind her his her boyfriend Luke." Banksie introduced her.
"Nice to meet you." Del stuck out her hand.
"Charmed." Mandy said snootily, using her free hand to tap Adam on the chest, completely ignoring Delilah's out stretched hand. "Let's dance sweetie."
"Yeah, okay. Talk to you later Del, nice seeing you Luke." Banks waved allowing his date to pull him away.
Twenty minutes later a dark haired girl entered the gym dressed in her pajamas, fuzzy slippers on her feet. In the crowded room she searched for faces she recognized, and eventually found a group within the groups, people that seemed to be oblivious to the rest of the congregation. Carly knew those were her friends.
She crossed the gymnasium and pushed her way through the dancers, finally reaching the Ducks. He had to admit the array of costumes they had chosen were slightly amusing to her. Samantha and Portman had gone as Pocahontas and John Smith, Emily and Luis went as JRR Tolkien's Aragorn and Eowyn and Charlie was Batman with Cat as his Cat-Women.
"Cat-Women Cat, not very clever." She joked admiring the other girls tight leather jump suit. "But it looks good."
Cat rolled her eyes beneath her mask and sighed.
"It was Charlie's idea, personally I think he just wanted to wear that rubber suit. So what are you doing here? I thought you weren't coming."
"I was thinking and I decided the best way for me to get over everything is by trying to live, I wasn't doing that sitting in my room. So here I am, hopefully it'll take my mind off things." Carly smiled, then as her eyes continued to scan the gym to take in the decorations and see other peoples costumes, then she noticed a couple sitting a few yards away. The boy was sitting on the chair and the girl was straddling his lap, practically drowning him in kisses. "Ugh, someone needs to tell the president and Ms. Monroe to get a room."
"Yeah…" Samantha agreed, not knowing what exactly else to say.
"Who do they think they are, anyway? You know what I'm going to tell them to knock that shit off, nobody wants to see that." Before anyone could get so much as a 'no wait.' she was on her way.
Carly stormed across the room and tapped the girl on the shoulder, Marilyn lifted her head from Kennedy's neck and Carly's mouth dropped.
"Amanda…" She gasped.
"Hey baby sister, here I'd like you to meet my date." She gestured to Adam. "Oh that's right, you already know each other." She smiled smugly.
"My sister Adam?" Caroline tried to keep her voice level. "Don't you have a heart, do you even have a soul?"
"Oh Caroline, you're not upset are you? I thought for sure you'd want Adam to at least keep it in the family."
Carly shot Banks a dirty look and still he said nothing to her. So she bit her lip, walked over to the refreshment table, grabbed a glass of punch and proceeded to dump in down the front of Mandy's white dress and letting it dribble into a sticky pink stain on Adam's crotch. Then she ran off in a stream of tears.
She was hutched in a ball, in the very back corner of the room, crying harder then she had in weeks, when one of her favorite songs began to play in the speakers beside her. The only problem was, the singer had an unusual Southern drawl.
"They read you Cinderella, you hoped it would come true, that one day your prince charming would come rescue you. You like romantic movies and you never fill forget, the way you felt when Romeo kissed Juliet." She lifted her head and there in front of her was Griffon Montgomery, dressed in a suit of armor and holding a microphone. He dropped to his knees in front of her and took one of her hands. "And all this time that you've been waiting, you don't have to wait no more. I could love you like that, I would make you my world, give heaven and Earth if you were my girl."
"Griffon…" Carly began but he placed his finger to her lips.
"Caroline Epson, I love you, I've been in love with you since the day I met you and if you'll let me, I'll be your knight in shining armor till the day I die. Will you just give me one chance?"
Carly blinked back the tears in her eyes and swallowed the huge lump that had formed in her throat and nodded feverishly. Griffon's face took on the worlds biggest smile as he picked her up and spun her around. It was time to start over.