Chapter 4 - Highlight Of The Night
As Sam and Jack went to the dance floor the band was playing a slow piece of jazz music. Sam held close to her partner and let him have the lead. After a short while she realized that, compared to Jack, Pete was an awful dancer; as Sam was dancing with Jack now it felt as if Pete had only been standing on her feet all the time.
"Wow", she whispered into his ear, "you're great on the floor."
"Huh? Really?" at first he was a bit stunned by that compliment then he realized that Sam was serious with him, "thanks, ma'am, I'm doing my best for you."
They both had to giggle. Sam lay her head onto Jack's shoulder trying to stop, he tapped her back carefully saying: "Our humor's awful, huh?"
"Indeed", she was still fighting against the giggle.
The band finished the song and the two of them decided to sit down again for the moment. At the table they shared with Sam's former classmates and friends her old friends Andrew and John had now arrived.
"Sam, nice to see you."
"Andy, hi", they hugged each other.
"It's been a long time", he stated, "how's our queen of the equations?"
"I'm fine, thank you. Heard you're having a master in Advanced Physics now?"
"Uhuh."
"That's great."
"Nothing against the thing John's currently working on at Stanford. Tell her, John-boy."
John smiled thinly as Andrew pointed at him. "Well, I'm working on my promovation as a doctor in Theoretic Astrophysics. My thesis mostly builds up on yours."
Sam had to laugh. "Boy, couldn't get enough of the afternoons we studied together, huh?"
"Oy", Jack exclaimed, "maybe this is why you understand the stuff she wrote in her doctoral thesis..."
Sam gave him a playful punch into his side. "If you'd ever elected Physics as a science in school, you'd understand..."
"Hey", Jack protested, "I had it for some time, but the teacher just pissed me off..."
"Lame excuses", Sam retorted.
"Yeah, whatever..."
"Your boyfriend?" Andrew asked.
"At the moment, yes", the two of them contested at the same second.
That moment the band stopped playing again and a man whom Sam instantly recognized as the head boy of their last grade, Tommy Sheen, came on stage.
"Okay, girls and boys", he announced, "it's time to vote for the king and queen of this prom night. Votes will be accepted until eleven o'clock."
"Hell, a queen and a king? I hoped they wouldn't do that tonight", Sam was a bit unnerved by that custom.
"Don't worry, Sam, we'll all vote for you. After Tara's election manipulation the last time you owe the post tonight", Chris said.
"No, I don't wanna..."
"Oh c'mon Sam", Jack encouraged her, "one time in your life you'd have to be in the middle."
(AN: Who of you is reminded of "Grace" by that statement? -Only a tiny little bit...- Hands up, please.)
So they all went to give up their votes. It was ten o'clock by that time. The next hour they all sat together talking and went to dance for several times. And then, punctually at quarter past eleven Tommy went on stage again.
"So people, we've got an official result for our royal couple now. The king of this reunion prom, with a hundred and eighty votes out of three hundred: the best looking physicist in the house, John Alban. Come on up here John-boy."
John went on stage under roaring applause and whistles.
"And now our lovely queen of tonight elected with two hundred and fifty voted out of three hundred", Tommy went on, "it's ... "
If you wanna know if a certain somebody is elected queen of the prom, check the next chapter, peeps. Excitement... crackle, crackle...
Coincidentally found time to upload on Tuesday, hehe, but the 5th chapter isn't finished before Friday. (I've just got 4 lines of it, yet.)