A/N: I don't own
the film, nor the characters. But please r/r…
Aldys could feel her
mouth open wide. "Huh?" Sure Aldys, when unsure about what to say,
don't say anything intelligent at all. The boy standing next to her
didn't seem to mind, though. "I said, do you want to go to the prom
with me Aldys?" Guy Perkins. Her secret love/crush for ever so long. Now
he was asking her to the prom. The really bizarre part of it wasn't
really that he asked her to the prom, but that he did it in school so that
everybody who passed by could hear them. Guy had had some problems with
acknowledging their friendship in public, actually he hadn't quite solved
those problems, but he had taken an important step in the right direction.
Now he looked slightly
impatient. She decided to reply him. "The prom is not really my kind of
thing Guy. I thought you would've understood that after all we've
talked about." He looked a bit down after that remark. His big blue eyes
looked at her like she imagined that Bambi would look at her. "Why
don't you ask Josie to the prom, instead?" Guy nodded slowly.
"Are you sure you won't mind it?" Why would she mind it? It
wasn't like they were dating or anything like that. He had only asked her
to prove his friendship. "No, I won't mind it, or else I
hadn't suggested it to you. Want to come to Nana's with me after
school?"
Sometimes Aldys really
wanted to change her appearance. She didn't want to have glasses, or go
around with those silly headbands that her father bought for her. She
wasn't the little girl her father thought she was. Or wanted her to be.
But she had no idea how she should start her little revolution.
"Do you think I
should cut my hair, Guy?" She had ordered a cup of mocha and Guy had a
cup of Cappuccino sitting in front of him. She had been playing with her hair
as they discussed baseball. Now there was a gap in the conversation and Aldys
had filled it with her comment on her hair. Guy looked stunned and shocked.
"What?" She said it again and now he only looked thoughtfully at
her. "I don't think that you should cut it, Aldys. It is beautiful,
why would you want to cut it?" She smiled at him. "It was just an
idea, I am kind of fed up with my looks and I want to change something."
He took her hand. "I like you the way you are, but if you really want to
change anything start with the headbands." They both smiled widely,
because she had told him how she loathed wearing them.
They had been going
together for several weeks now, and strangely enough they had never bumped into
anyone from school. It seemed like the entire student body was occupied with
the preparations for the prom, except for Guy and Aldys. They had been at the
ice rink several times. Guy had come with her to watch her baseball games and
she'd go with him to visit the Senior's home where he worked at the
weekends. They developed a friendship over these weeks that she thought was so
strong that nothing could break it.
"Aldys?"
David came over to her in the library. "We're planning to go to the
prom, and we wondered if you would go with us." Aldys had changed her mind over the last few weeks about the
prom. She really didn't mind the fact that Josie was going with Guy. But
she wanted to be there, experience it, dance. "I'll come with you
guys. What are we going as?"
She found that out
later.