OK guys, the 5th chapter is here finally! Hope it's ok, and thanks to everyone who reviews!!!
Not much else to say, so on with the show! :-)
'Ow!' Cassie squealed as Rachel tried to pin her hair up in numerous ways. 'Why can't I just have it in a bun, like normal?'
'Because, duh, that's normal. You need to look special. This is your big night.' Rachel replied, letting down the bundle of hair and starting again. She had already sorted herself out; she was now trying to get Cassie looking more stunning than ever.
'You know.. I could always just wear my hair down...' Cassie suggested, but this was a suggestion met with the dirtiest look from Rachel.
'No-one wears their hair down at a prom. It has to be up.' She said, brushing it all back, around the towel covering Cassie's shoulders. 'However...' she said, giving it a few more brush strokes. 'This could look really good. Take the towel off and have a look,' she commanded. Cassie obeyed. As she looked in the mirror... She saw a different side to herself. Make up, a dress, hair down... this wasn't her. But it felt good.
'Can I get a photo yet?' Cassie's mum asked through her bedroom door.
'Sure mom, come in,' Cassie replied. She and Rachel posed for a photo, winced when her mum said she couldn't believe her baby was growing up, and then felt relieved when she left.
'Rach...' Cassie started. 'You do think I made the right decision, going to the prom with Dom, don't you?'
'Sure. I mean.. If Jake can have a prom date then you can.'
The doorbell rang, and Rachel and Cassie ran downstairs. It was Dom, come to pick them both up, and he had hired a limo especially for the occasion. The two girls squealed, and climbed in. Tobias was to meet Rachel at the prom.
After all the hype surrounding the biggest social event of the year, Cassie had expected a little more than what she encountered. The Gym hall: poorly decked out in ancient decorations, a lousy DJ playing last years tunes, some sort of fruit concoction they called punch, and the behavioural patterns of the two sexes was beyond Cassie. Guys stood at one end of the hall, girls standing in groups giggling on the other, it was as if some sort of force field was separating them. Only a few well-established couples stood together, the rest left to giggle or fart.
'Want a glass of punch?' Dom offered Cassie about half-way through the event. She nodded, and Dom came back with a plastic cup full of a red liquid with what she supposed were bits of fruit floating in it. He managed to spill it all down the front of Cassie's dress. Furious, she stormed out of the hall, and out of the school, leaving Dom to mop up. It was still quite light outside, and she managed to wobble her way to the nearest park, and sat on the swings, wondering why on earth she had ever dared to go to the prom in the first place. After about 30mins, she was joined by a strange figure. It had grown quite dark by now, and so at first she couldn't tell who it was. She was just about to hop off the swing and run for her life when she realised it was Jake.