Prom
Chapter Seven: Prom
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"Hello?" Lizzie picked up the phone.

"Hey, are you ready?" Gordo said from the other end of the line.

"Yeah," she answered.

"Great. My parents want me to come back for pictures, surprisingly enough. Is that okay?"

"Yeah, my parents are doing the same, they want to take about a million pictures," she told him.

"Okay, I'll be over in about five minutes. Bye," he said and hung up.

Lizzie hung up and went to the bathroom to check her hair and makeup. When she was positive everything was perfect, she went back to her room and but her shoes on and grabbed her purse. She quickly turned off the radio, on which Mandy Moore's "Cry" was playing, and she hurried downstairs to wait for Gordo. As soon as her feet left the stairs, the doorbell rang. Lizzie took a deep breath and opened the door.

The door swung open, revealing David Gordon. His hair was shiny and wet from a shower he must have recently took. He was wearing a black tuxedo with a white shirt and grey tie. He had on a pair of black, shiny loafers. "Wow," he said. "I must say, you look even more fantastic than yesterday."

"Gordo," Lizzie said in an exasperated tone, which caused him to grin. "Well, we better get the pictures over." The couple walked into the living room, linked arm-in-arm.

As soon as they rounded the corner, flashes from the cameras went off. Mr. and Mrs. McGuire were both on the couch snapping away. After about at least a roll of film, Jo told her daughter to descend the stairs for a dramatic, romantic type picture.

"I've always wanted a picture of my daughter coming down the stairs on Prom night," she explained.

"Fine, mom," Lizzie said, with somewhat of a sigh, and let her mom get her picture in.

When Gordo and Lizzie finally managed to get outside, with a few more pictures were taken, they started to walk down the sidewalk to Gordo's house. They had decided that instead of spending money on a limo, they'd just walk, which would increase the romance of the night. After flashing cameras at Gordo's house, the pair was on their way to the school. "Gordo," Lizzie said.

"Yeah?"

"I hope we win," she said.

"That would be cool. But if we don't, that's okay too," he said, wrapping his fingers around hers.

She just nodded softly, walking along with her eyes to the ground. Gordo stopped, grasping her other hand as well. She looked up at him as he was moving in for their second kiss. She wrapped her arms around his back, and he put one of his on her back, the other on the back of her head. As they pulled apart, their eyes met. Gordo stared into Lizzie's deep blue eyes, and muttered the words she was afraid were coming. "I love you."

She stared back into his eyes, absorbing the dark brown into her heart. "I... I love you too," she said almost silently, pulling him in for one more kiss before they finally got back on their way to the dance.

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They finally arrived at the gymnasium of the school, and stood in line to the entrance. When they got to the doors, Gordo handed the tickets to the teacher who was taking the tickets in, and they went inside.

The inside was covered with blue, light blue, and white streamers. The stage had been decorated to match the school's Prom theme, 'Angels in the Sky'. There were balloons all over the floor and floating around in the air, and there was a band playing a fast song on stage. Lizzie and Gordo went to get punch instead of dancing just yet. When they got to the punch table, they saw Ethan and Miranda talking there. And Kate approaching from behind them, very slowly, with a can of dog food.

'I got the idea from the movie 'Never Been Kissed.' This is going to be so great.' Kate's words came back in a ghastly sense to Lizzie. Never Been Kissed... dog food... Prom... Finally, Lizzie understood.

Just as Kate was stopping behind Miranda, Lizzie yelled out. "Nooo!" She yelled it so loud that the band even stopped playing. Lizzie rushed up and pushed Kate back, the dog food flying out of her hand and landing in Ethan's hair.

"Lizzie! You ruined it, you wench!" Kate yelled from the floor. Ethan ran to the bathroom, his hands up to his hair. Miranda was just standing there, her mouth open, not knowing what to say.

"Oh... my... God..." she managed to get out. "You were... right, Gordo. I'm so sorry I didn't believe you." With tears in her eyes, Miranda ran up and hugged him. Then she turned to Lizzie and did the same. "I'm so sorry," she repeated. "I just didn't want to believe you. I mean, I thought it was weird that Ethan asked me out too. And Kate dumped him right before Prom, how convenient. Yeah right, I can't believe it all."

"They tried the same with me and Gordo. Obviously they tried to get either me or you, but Kate asked Gordo out too, but they didn't fool him," Lizzie said softly. Miranda pulled her friends' hands up to her face. She squeezed Lizzie's and put Gordo's to her eye.

"I'm so sorry."

"Shhh, it's okay. Here, let's go get you a date," Lizzie said, dragging Miranda off to find her someone to dance with. After only a few minutes, the girls returned to Gordo along with Jason, one of the Prom King candidates. Miranda and Jason seemed to get along, so Gordo and Lizzie left them alone so they could go dance.

The two joined the dance floor just as a slow song started up. It was '(Everything I Do) I Do It For You' by Bryan Adams. The song was a well-written and very romantic song, which made it perfect for the couple to dance to. Lizzie put her head against Gordo's chest as they danced.

"Gordo, I can't believe we're here," Lizzie said.

"I know, this is perfect," he said.

"Yeah," she said, stopping herself from talking to soak in her surroundings, mainly the music and Gordo.

Another song started up, an older song, 'Pour Some Sugar On Me.'

Lizzie and Gordo danced to the music, and Lizzie started to sing along softly with the chorus.

"Pour some sugar on me, oooh, in the name of love, pour some sugar on me..."

Lizzie sighed against Gordo's chest. Soon, they had danced through 'What's Luv?' by Fat Joe and Ashanti, 'Caramel' by City High, 'Sometimes' by Britney Spears, and 'Hero' by Enrique Iglesias, all of which were sung by the band on the stage.

They decided to sit out of the rest of the songs and just talk. They talked for a half hour or so when Miranda and Jason came over and joined them. The group talked for a while until the principal stopped the music and announced it was time for the crowning of King and Queen. He stood at the center of the stage, the previous year's royalty to either side of him.

"Attention students, the time you've all been waiting for!" This resulted in a loud outburst from the gym's occupants, and they finally quieted down when they realized that the faster they shut up, the faster they'd get the results of the voting.

"Drum roll, please," the principal said, opening an envelope as the students hushed. "For this years Prom King, Ethan Craft!"

The crowd erupted again, and Ethan went up to the stage. He had what looked like a napkin on his head, probably covering what dog food he couldn't remove from his hair. He grabbed the microphone to give his little speech.

"Uh... yeah, I wanna thank you people that voted for me, and to you other people, you're not very smart," he said, ironically, as he wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. Lizzie and Miranda looked sad for Gordo and Jason, but they just shrugged it off.

"It's not that big of a surprise," Gordo said.

"Nope," Jason agreed.

"Students," the principal said. "For Prom Queen this year, our winner is..."

The room turned almost deadly silent, they were very interested.

"Kate Sanders!" Another burst of cheers, excluding the group of four in the back of the gym.

"Ahem," Kate started her speech. "It's of course, not a surprise I'm up here, and for those of you who voted against me, I'll find out, and you'll die."

Lizzie looked up at Gordo, but also saw Kate and the principal fighting over the mic in the corner of her eye. "I thought we'd have a good chance," she said, just as a slow melody of a song started to play. Ethan and Kate, as King and Queen, were entitled to dance on stage.

"Yeah, but I'd rather be down here, with the rest of the student body, dancing with you, than be up on stage as the center of the attention of the public eye," Gordo said, pulling her into the night's last dance.
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YAY! I finally got to the Prom chapter! Hate it, like it? Review and tell me. And I'm thinking of adding a couple chapters of the aftermath of Prom, the ending and graduation of their high school careers, etc. So leave it in your reply if you think I should add more chapters. Thanks.