Haii! Only me again. Update, I'm still in my room but I did manage to reluctantly get a piece of chicken from the fridge and a packet of crisps in case of emergency. At least I've left my room today lol. Further update, I regret my decisions and I now permanently live in my bed. PROGRESS lol, nah not really. Really need a shower tho...but that's not happening today so I'll write instead! Also, I know prom is usually held at another location but I wanted them to have the party actually at school so be kind. And I know that this isn't how prom works but idc, that's how imma write it lol. I'll never get to prom so this is what I would want it to be like. .

Larry was stood outside the school dressed in his suit with a red shirt and a black tie, his hair was brushed and swept back into a neat bun. He anxiously waited, watching cars pull up outside the school, letting students out in their fancy clothing and allowing them to join their dates. Neil was stood beside him, looking equally nervous.

"You ok, dude?" Larry asked. Neil laughed in reply.

"Yeah, but I'm doing better than you by the looks of it. I know that tonight is big for you. Is everything ready?"

Larry nodded slowly as he tapped his pocket. His eyebrows contracted in confusion, he didn't feel anything. He checked his other pocket but it had the same emptiness. His eyes widened in panic.

"Neil! I must have left it at home! Shit, what do I do!" Larry started to pace a little before Neil grabbed his arm pulled him to stay in one place.

"Calm down, somehow I knew something like this would happen. I'll get Todd to message Ash to pick it up before she comes here, she wanted to be late anyway since she has no date."

An audible sigh escaped Larry and he almost melted with relief. As if on cue, a car pulled up and out stepped Todd in a blue suit, his ginger hair was somehow even messier than usual. Neil's eyes lit up at the sight of his boyfriend, he eagerly stepped out and took his arm before walking down the little red carpet that had been laid out to welcome couples. They stopped halfway down to have their photo taken before carrying on. Todd looked back and waved at Larry, giving him a thumbs up to what Neil had asked him to do.

Larry's smiled returned to his face and he turned back to the line of cars, most had blacked out windows so you couldn't see who was inside but the closer they got, the more you could see. About three cars away, Larry saw a glimpse of blue hair through the dark window, his heart was now about to pound out of his chest.

Thump Thump

Two cars away...

Thump Thump

One...

Thump Thump

This was it. The car pulled up and stopped in line with the carpet. Larry walked into the middle of the row, waiting for Sal. Slowly, the car door opened and Sal carefully got out the car, not wanting his skirt to go up. Larry stood in shock as he watched his boyfriend. Sal walked to him and kissed him on the cheek.

"Larry, are you ok?" Sal asked, tilting his head a little as he questioned him. Larry stood, still unable to believe his eyes. He raised his hand to Sal's cheek,

"Sal, your face..."

Sal giggled as he nuzzled his face into Larry's hand.

"Yeah, I know... Do you like it?"

"You're beautiful..."

Larry leant down and kissed Sal's lips, not bothering to worry about his lipstick. The short boy threw his arms around Larry's neck, bringing himself closer to the one he loved. They grew self-conscious and reluctantly tore themselves apart, feeling everyone's eyes focus on them. Sal put his blushing face into his hands out of instinct. Larry smiled to him and held his arm, walking them down the red carpet to the school. Half way down, they stopped and had their photo's taken. It was only just then that Larry looked at all of Sal.

His blue hair had been straightened and pulled into a side parting, with glitter poured into the parting and secured with hairspray. His face was completely smooth, none of this scars could be seen, not even the part of his cheek that was completely scratched out. Where his scars used to be, there were little dents, but he looked completely normal, as if nothing had even happened to him. He had a little mascara and thin smudged eyeliner on to stop his eyes from looking sunken from all the foundation. His lips had been painted a subtle purple with glitter balm ran along them so they sparkled.

Around his neck, he had a simple silver chain with an LGBT flag charm hanging on the end, which was barely visible over the neckline of his dress. He was wearing a knee-length black velvet dress with a puffy underskirt, the velvet had little purple decal on it, blending in with the grain of the material. The neckline was sweetheart but it had lace covering his chest and around the back. It had no sleeves but the lace around his neck held the dress up. Sal had always had smaller feet so he could fit in women's shoe sizes. He had little purple 2-inch kitten heels on with closed toes, though the ends were already scuffed from when Sal was breaking them in.

Larry observed Sal and chuckled to himself, making the smaller boy look up at him in confusion.

"What's so funny?"

"Even in heels, you're so much shorter than me, dude." The brunette spoke while trying not to burst out laughing. Sal's face turned sour at the comment.

"Yes, I may be short, but that means that I'm the perfect height to punch you in the dick."

Both boys erupted with laughter as they continued to walk down the aisle to the school. Once they passed through the doors, they made their way to the main school hall which had been completely transformed into a beautiful sight. White material had been pinned up around the entire hall, with white ribbons, balloons with covered tables and chairs scattered at one end of the hall, the other had been set up as a stage with a large vacant space to use as a dance floor. A large banner hung over the entrance which read the iconic theme of most proms 'A night to remember' which most people never remembered if someone had spiked the punchbowl at some point during the night.

Sal's eyes were wide with shock, he never thought that he'd be able to go to a normal prom, and here he was, at the prom without his prosthetic, with the love of his life by his side. Before he could stop himself, tears began to roll down his cheeks, he'd never been so happy in his life.

Larry felt his boyfriend shaking and put his arm around him,

"It's ok, I know this is a lot right now. Wanna stay outside for a while?"

Sal shook his head as he carefully wiped his tears to avoid damaging his makeup.

"No, let's do this. I'm not wasting any time, this is going to be the best night of my life."

Larry couldn't help but smile at his words, all he had wanted was to give Sal one of the best nights of his life, and he hadn't even done anything yet but Sal was happy, that's all that mattered.

No music was playing yet but more and more people were filing into the hall so the couple decided to take seats at a table in the back corner of the hall. Eventually, Todd and Neil spotted them and made their way to the table. Todd studied Sal's face while the last students were still arriving. Neil eventually stepped in and told him to knock it off, which Sal was deeply grateful for. As time went on, Larry seemed to grow more and more anxious, he loosened his tie and undid the top button, he kept glancing around as if he was looking for something. Sal noticed it and kept looking around too, wondering what Larry could be looking at.

"For goodness sake, Larry. What's up? What are you looking at?"

Larry shook his head, trying to play it cool,

"O-oh...I'm just looking for Ash, it's no biggie, dude. It's just that said she'd be here by now. The celebration is about to start..."

Sal thought a moment before shrugging the idea off, he was too excited for the prom to worry about Ashley. Todd pulled at Larry's sleeve and handed him his phone. On the screen was a message from Ash.

"I've got it, took me a while to find, I'm on my way."

Larry audibly sighed with relief, she still had a few minutes to get there. He mouthed thank you to Todd before turning his attention back to his date, who's eyes were fixated on the stage at the other end of the hall. The principal and a few teachers had gathered on the stage, all dressed in smart-casual clothes, and were preparing to begin the night.

"Good evening to you all. Now I'm sure none of you actually want to listen to us but you will have to sit through a couple speeches and some notices before we get to actual prom stuff."

In unison, the entire room sighed but they soon went silent so the announcements could be done quicker. The principal started talking about various things, while Sal appeared to be hanging onto every word, Larry still couldn't focus, he was just willing Ash to hurry up.

"Lastly, there are some cards of your table, they have a list of the registered couples who are running for prom king and queen. Please fill in a box and return the card to the table by the entrance. We will count the votes and crown the royalty later. That's it, let's begin."

This earned a cheer and applause from most of the students. Music started to play quietly from the speakers in the stage. Sal deflated at the thought, king and queen, he was never going to make it, but he didn't mind too much, at least he was at the prom instead of at home with his dad. 'If I didn't have Larry, I wouldn't even be here... you don't need to be prom king to be happy...' he thought to himself. He went to reach for the voting card on the table to see who the candidates were but Larry had already snatched up the card.

"Ok, I'm guessing we choose Chug and Maple? We don't really know anyone else on here, and Travis has come alone so it's all good."

Sal just nodded, he wanted to at least help his friends win. Larry ticked a box on the card and took it over to the table by the entrance where many students had already gathered to turn their voting cards. Neil got up from the table with his and Todd's vote and went to the table too. As he walked off, Sal turned to Todd.

"So who'd you vote for?"

Todd shifted in his chair uncomfortably,

"Oh, umm... Chug and Maple obviously."

Sal pulled a puzzled face but didn't think too much of Todd's weird behaviour. This was Todd we were talking about after all. After a few minutes, Larry and Neil returned. Neil walked over to Todd and sat down, taking his hand into his own. Larry stood in front of Sal and held out his arm,

"Come dance with me? I saw the playlist and a few songs you like are coming up."

Sal grinned and sprang to his feet, linking his arm with Larry's as the walked to the dancefloor which was now littered with students. As they reached the edge of the floor, the song changed and everyone started to sing,

"Coming out of my cage and I've been doing just fine, gotta gotta be down because I want it all!"

Even some of the teachers started to dance at the side of the room. Larry laughed as Sal began to sing along. By the time that the chorus had rolled around, every student, even Todd and Neil, was stood up and singing to the classic anthem that was Mr. Brightside.

"Jealously. turning saints into the sea. Swimming through sick lullabies. Chocking on your alibis. But it's just the price I pay. Destiny is calling me. Open up my EAGER EYES. 'CAUSE I'M MR. BRIGHTSIDE!"

By the end of the chorus, the entire hall was practically screaming the lyrics so even the people outside the school could hear them. The brunette stood and watched as his date danced along and screamed the lyrics, he smiled knowing that Sal was happy. The smaller boy saw that Larry was staring at him, clearly deep in thought so he practically jumped into Larry's arms and kissed him forcefully. Larry wasn't paying attention and jumped in surprise, almost dropping Sal, whose legs were now wrapped around his waist. Larry pulled his face away first,

"Woah, you ok? I almost dropped you!"

Sal laughed,

"Yeah I'm fine, sorry. I couldn't help myself. You've made me so happy. Thank you."

Larry smiled even more hearing the words come from his mouth. More songs played, most of them being some of Sal's favourites. After about an hour, the headteacher got up on stage once more and turned off the music, which made many students groan because they were jamming out to I write sins not tragedies.

"Can you all make your way back to the tables please, when the floor is clear, I will announce this years prom royalty."

The dancefloor soon cleared and the tables at the other end of the hall refilled. Larry, Sal, Todd and Neil sat down at the table they had sat at before, Larry looked more nervous than before. Ash had still not arrived. Sal took Larry's hand and put it in his lap without thinking, his eyes were glued to the stage, anticipating the results. Todd and Neil had moved their chairs together so Todd could rest his head on his boyfriends shoulder. They looked so content and happy sat there together, it made Larry smile, wondering if that was what he and Sal looked like.

"Ok, now that that's done, it's finally time to announce the winners. These students have come a long way since they started at this school and we couldn't be more proud of them, we truly think they deserve this. So, the Nockfell prom king an-"

At that moment, the entrance door swung open to reveal a flustered Ash. Her middle-parted hair was all messy from the journey to the school, but somehow it didn't look out of place since most of the curls had stayed in her hair. Her makeup was still as it was from earlier apart from she had stencilled blue and purple star shapes on her cheeks. Her dress was deep violet with a fitted waist and a halter neck. The dress was separated into two halves by a belt, the top half was covered with jewels and beads, arranged in beautiful patterns, while the bottom half gently flowed outwards into a long train that glided along beautifully when she walked. She had a blue to purple holographic clutch bag resting under her right arm, though she didn't really need it, it just completed the look. Her dress was so long that you couldn't see the 4-inch purple heels with a charm ankle strap that she was wearing underneath.

Ash looked around and noticed that she'd interrupted the proceedings, she mouthed an apology and started to make her way over to the table where the boys were sitting.

"Ah, Miss Campbell, how nice of you to finally join us." The principal continues before Ash can get to the table. "Now, this year, we don't have just one prom king, we have two."

This earned murmurs amongst the students. Sal's face fell open in shock and realisation. That's why Larry didn't let him see the voting card... He put his hands over his mouth to stop himself from screaming, he slowly turned to face Larry, who was smiling from ear to ear, nodding slowly. It took all Sal's strength for him not to cry or jump into Larry's arms at that exact moment.

"The prom kings are..." The teacher paused for effect but it didn't really matter, "... Larry Johnson and Sal Fisher!"

The room erupted with applause as the couple stood up. Sal was almost frozen with shock so Larry guided him out of his chair and out of the tables. Larry leant down to Sal's ear as he let go of his hand,

"Go on, I'll be 3 seconds. I'll be right behind you."

Sal slowly started to walk to the stage, not even looking around in his dazed state. Larry quickly ran to meet Ash in the centre of the tables, she pulled him into quick hug and slipped something in his pocket. She whispered "Good luck." in his ear before he quickly made his way through the tables and back up to Sal. He took his boyfriend's hand and pulled him along to the stage. For Sal, the reality had only just come back, he had felt like this was all a dream. For him, this all played out like a movie, though he just prayed that this movie wouldn't turn out like Carrie.

As the couple reached the stage, they were welcomed with little crowns and Sal got a bouquet placed into his hands. They thanked them and walked to the middle of the stage so they were facing the crowd. The principal handed Sal the mic,

"Oh my goodness...I'm so sorry, I don't know what to say. I wasn't even told that we were entered for Prom kings so I don't have any clue what to say..." Sal's face flushed bright red as thought how strange it must look. Larry placed his hand on Sal's shoulder and took the mic from his trembling hands. Larry was equally trembling and was muttering incoherent thoughts under his breath.

"A-Are you sure?" Sal asked just as the mic left his grip. Larry nodded and cleared his throat.

"Luckily, I do know what to say. Most of you know this already but let me explain for Sal's sake. Yes, we were entered into the voting for Prom kings, this is because of my special request. I specifically made sure we could bend the rules so we could both be kings. Sal never thought he'd be able to come to his prom, and he surely did not even imagine coming here with a date and winning the votes. I asked just over half the class to help me with this and to vote for us so his dreams could come true.

Sal is the strongest person I have ever known. He completes me and makes me happy. He usually wears his prosthetic but, as you can see, he is so handsome too, with or without the makeup hiding your true face."

By this point, Larry had turned to face Sal and was holding his free hand. Sal stood in another state of shock...It was happening...

"You have saved me in more ways than one and you have stood by my side through thick and thin. I can't imagine ever finding someone more perfect than you. I love you...now and forever..."

Larry let go of Sal's hand and dropped to one knee, he pulled a small box out of his trouser pocket and slowly peeled back the lid with his hands shaking violently. Sal dropped his bouquet and covered his mouth and nose with his hands.

"Sally Fisher...Will you marry me?"

Oof! It's happening! You like it? lol. I can't, I might actually cry rn... Okay... baii! .