"A woman who'll wait for the third time around, head in the clouds, feet on the ground
She's girl he's glad he's found, she's his shipoopi."
Shipoopi, The Music Man
Friday night Summer sat in her bedroom pulling her hair into a curly bun while Seth sat on her bed watching Blues Brothers with Sam.
"So you still haven't told me how it went with my dad." Summer said as she placed a bobby pin in to hold her hair in place
"It went okay, you know."
"Just okay?"
"Yeah Seth said before turning his attention back to the TV.
"You see that lady right there?" he asked Sam as he pointed to the screen, "That is Carrie Fisher. Star Wars very own Princess Leigha."
"Seth." Summer said standing up and walking into her closet, "You do know that Sam doesn't understand a word of what you're saying."
"I'm sure that she understands a word. And plus you're never too young to be introduced to comic geniuses like Jim and Dan."
"Well there's this girl in my study hall whose parents did Tent Theatre at SMS with John Goodman."
"Ah yes, SMS, the Harvard of the Midwest."
"Zip me up, please." Summer said walking out of the closet dressed in a simple black dress with silver heels.
"You look incredible." Seth said as he walked over with Sam on his hip.
"Well thank you." she smiled
An hour later Summer and Seth made their way into the ballroom of the Tower Club, an exclusive hotel and Restaurant.
"It looks beautiful, doesn't it?" Summer asked with tears filling her eyes
"What's wrong?" Seth whispered as he began to stroke her back
"I don't know." She whispered back trying to keep the tears in
"Summer!" Becca hurrying up dressed in a stunning black and purple ball gown.
"Becca! What are you doing here?"
"Counterman's date backed out at the last minute so as I good friend I decided to give up my night of movies and popcorn to get dressed up and spend one last dance with all my friends."
"This is what you're third prom?"
"Second."
"Are you even going to go to your own prom next year?"
"I don't have that much of an exciting so probably."
A few hours later Summer sat talking with Kristi and Becca while Seth hung out with Wasman and Counterman.
"So Summer, what's the official count on how many more days until you and Seth make your treck across country?" Becca asked
"Eleven."
"Are you kidding?" Kristi asked in shock, "Only ten more days?"
"Yep."
"So what are you guys doing once you get back to Newport?"
"I don't know. Have fun. Be happy."
That night Summer sat on the floor of her room packing her cd's into a large Hollister shopping bag while Seth played with Sam on the bed.
"That is an outrageous amount of cd's you have there. Why are you bringing all of them?"
"Because we'll have them out of the way when we have to move the rest of my stuff."
"So, we're really doing this. It's really real." Seth said as he and Sam took a seat on the floor
"Yeah. It is."
