You walked into school on Monday ready for the stresses of Prom week. Everyone was always rushing around for a last minute date, dress, tux, or excuse not to go. Luckily, your date had already asked you and your dress was sitting in your closet at home. But just because you were prepared didn't mean you weren't going to be stressed. You knew well and good that everyone would be coming to you with their problems, and you were too nice to say no. That being said, you were a little shocked when you walked to your locker to find that it was already open, and someone was hiding behind the door.

You strolled up and tapped the intruder on the shoulder. Kairi let out a little squeal, then whipped her head around to see who had disturbed her.

"Oh, (Y/n)! It's just you..." Kairi settled back into position, seemingly watching someone.

"Well it is my locker," you mentioned, but she was already entranced in her prey. You peeked around your locker, too, trying to find what was so interesting. "Hey Kairi, what are we looking at?"

Kairi threw her hand over your mouth, using her other hand to point at Sora, who was frantically trying to finish his first period homework. The moment you saw who she was pointing to, you understood; Kairi must be waiting for Sora to ask her to prom.

You pulled her hand off your mouth, whispering, "Really? He still hasn't asked you? What a dweeb." You thought for a moment, then added, "Do you want me to talk to him?"

Kairi replied with a long and drawn out, "Noooooo," which meant she wanted you to. You grabbed the books you need from your locker, told Kairi to shut the door when she was done being a creep, then you walked up to Sora.

You snatched the homework from Sora's hand and filled in all the answers with rapid speed, having just done it on the bus yourself. You handed it back to him, stating, "We need to talk."

Sora gave you a huge smile, exclaiming, "Anything for you after helping me like that!"

"Good," you nodded, "then who are you asking to prom?"

Sora stared at you; not blinking, not breathing. His eyes widened as he finally yelled, "PROM IS THIS FRIDAY!?"

Before you could even finish nodding your head, Sora shouted again, "WHERE IS KAIRI?!"

You slyly pointed over to your locker, where you could still see her blue eyes watching you. Sora bolted over to you locker. You watched the scene for a little, which consisted of a lot of apologies and finally a hug, and then you sighed to yourself, "My work here is done."

You then felt a tap on your shoulder. You turned around to see Axel, instantly getting butterflies. You shifted your books in your arms, whispering a, "Hi Axel."

"Hey pumpkin," he exclaimed, "Want me to carry your books for you?"

"No no, it's fine! I can carry them," you smiled.

He gave a little chuckle. "Alright then, can I at least walk you to class?"

"Sure!" you grinned, grabbing his hand, "My first class is this way."

You and Axel walked down the hall together, hand in hand. The two of you walked in comfortable silence for a little, until Axel spoke up.

"Are you excited for prom?"

"Of course I am!" you exclaim, "Most of my friends are seniors, so it'll be fun to hang out with them all night."

"I'm just happy that I'm going with you."

Your eyes widened as you looked up at a smiling Axel. Your cheeks started burning up. You looked away quickly, mumbling, "I'm really happy I'm going with you too."

Axel let out a chuckle at your antics and squeezed your hand.

The rest of the time was consisted of playful banter, until you reached your first period classroom. It was a nice little walk, and it's little things like that that really made you happy you were finally dating Axel.

He pulled you into a hug while you were lost in thought, and placed a little peck on your cheek. "I'll see you at lunch." And with that, he was off.

You put your hand up to your cheek, sighing at him as he walked away. You were enjoying watching him walk away until you were violently pulled into your classroom, just as the bell rang. Xion flicked you on the forehead, calling you a "Dummy" under her breath.

You both sat down in your respective seats, anxiously awaiting the teacher to send you off to your labs so that you could talk to each other. It took a good 15 minutes, but the class was finally set free to get into partners and start their lab reports. You and Xion bolted to the lab table all the way in the back of the room.

"Finally, I thought that lecture was never going to end. He wasn't even talking about Chemistry! Just stupid dress code and how we need to stop ignoring it...Anyways, I need to talk to you about something."

"Okay," you agreed, "Is it anything bad?"

"No! Just plans for prom, silly! All the girls and guys are gonna meet up separately beforehand to get ready, and then we will all meet at the prom. Some of the guys are going stag, but they're all in our friend group so we don't want them to feel left out, y'know?" Xion concluded.

You nodded your head in agreement. "Yeah, I think that's a great idea! Whose house are we meeting at?"

"Kairi's. Her parents aren't going to be home so we don't have to worry about any distractions there."

"Okay, awesome! We should probably get started on this lab. We haven't finished the past 3 he's assigned."

"Bleh, alright. I just hate Chem..." Xion laid her head on the table in misery, shooing you off to go get everything the two of you needed. You jumped up and started gathering everything, excited about prom being so close and all the plans falling into place.

~Prom Night~

It was about 1 o'clock in the afternoon. You, Xion, Kairi, and Naminè, Riku's date from another school, had just arrived at Kairi's house with dresses and makeup in tow. It was time to get down to business.

You all helped each other with hair and makeup. It was really nice to hang out with everyone, and Naminè was really sweet! The venue where the prom was being held at was about an hour away, and by the time everyone was finished getting ready, it was about 5 o'clock. Each of the girls put on their dresses and took a few photos before hopping in the car and heading to prom. You all agreed that a limo was a little too over the top, so the group piled into a little car and jammed the whole way to prom.

You pulled up to the beautiful setting of prom just on time to get checked in. Kairi had been texting Sora and they were still about 10 minutes out, so you all decided to check in now instead of waiting.

Apparently, because there were a few more guys than girls, the guys ended up renting a limo. You were starting to get really excited, for you realized that you had never seen Axel dressed up, let alone in a tuxedo! And watching him step out of a limo like that...your butterflies were back again, and with a vengeance.

Kairi turned around to face the group, shouting, "They're pulling up!"

The four of you bolted to the parking lot. A white limo was rounding the corner, which you could only assume was full of 8 of your guy friends, and 1 boyfriend of course.

The door opened and out came the group of handsomely dressed gentleman. You looked at all of them, admiring how nice they all cleaned up. But something was missing...

"Where's Axel?" you asked, mostly pointing the question towards Roxas and Saïx.

"I believe he's taking his own car," Saïx assured, "I thought he'd be here by now though..."

"Oh, okay. Well, there's no point waiting out here! Let's go in now!" you exclaimed, eager to start dancing as soon as possible.

Your whole group piled into the venue. The girls waited for the guys to sign in, then you all went in and took over 2 tables.

And then the music started.

~2 hours later~

The bathroom is always a nice place to cry.

You had been telling yourself all night that you weren't gonna let the fact that Axel stood you up get you down, but after two hours of looking to the door every time you heard it open and everyone telling you he was a jerk or he would show up eventually, you decided a good cry might do you some good.

knock knock

"(Y/n)?"

You were a bit confused at first when you heard your name, expecting a girl to be in there.

"Roxas?" you sniffled and wiped your nose, "What are you doing in here, this is the girl's bathroom?"

"Don't worry about me, I'm here to help you out. Also, Xion and Kairi are watching the door...Can I come in?"

You happened to be in the handicap stall, so there would be plenty of room for the two of you. You walked to the stall door and unlocked it. Roxas pushed it open, and after giving you a pitiful look, he pulled you into a hug.

You cried a little more in Roxas' arms, half because of Axel, and half because you were so happy to have such a good friend like Roxas.

When he heard you starting to calm down, he pulled away a little.

"You wanna go dance with me?" he whispered, wiping your tears with his coat.

You couldn't help but smile as you accepted his offer, and you walked out of the bathroom hand in hand. You gave a small smile to Kairi and Xion, while Roxas threw them a thumbs up.

The two of you walked in at the beginning of a slow song, and you happily slow danced with you best friend. Roxas was humming along to the song the whole time, causing a smile to grow on your face.

The song ended. You were a little sad, but very grateful to Roxas for being there for you.

"Thank you Roxas, you have no idea how much this means to me. I'm gonna go outside to get some air, okay?"

"Anytime (Y/n). Let me know if you wanna dance again, okay?"

"Okay Roxas."

He gave you a kiss on the forehead before letting you go. As you were walking to the door, you started feeling much better.

'I have so many friends who love me,' you thought, 'so there's no point in being upset about something so stupid.'

You opened the door to some nice crisp air. It was a little cold considering you had a dress on, but it felt kind of nice.

You looked around a bit, hugging your arms and taking in the beautiful scenery.

'Maybe I'll take Roxas up on his offer, so long as Xion doesn't mind.'

Then your heart stopped. There was no mistaking that red car, nor the well dressed red head who was lying on the hood of it, smoking.

Infuriated, you begin stomping across the parking lot and to the car.

'This better be a good fucking excuse.'

Author's Note: Just because I thought it was funny, below is what my first idea for this chapter was. And yes, all of my chapters start out like this ^^

((Start off you talking to one of the girls. They say the guys and girls are going separately to prom. You like "um okay". In school Axel walks you to class and is being really cute and is like "ye prahm" cause prahm is that night. You go and get ready and stuff and then all the girls get in a limo and go. You get to prom before the guys. Guys arrive and you wait but Axel doesn't get out/isn't there. Everyone is like "er meh gerd I'm so sorreh" and you cry in the bathroom. Roxas goes in (CAUSE HE LOVES YOU ENOUGH TO GO INTO GIRLS ROOM (he also has Xion amnd Kairi watching the door soooo)). Roxas says things and then is like "Come back out, I'll dance with you". So you get out of bathroom and dance with Roxas (he doesn't like you romantically, just best friends). You thank him and everyone and then say you want to go get some air. You walk out front (this is like 2 hours into prom) and you see Axel sitting on the hood of his car, smoking. END IT THERE BY YOU WALKING UP TO HIM SAYING "This better be a good fucking excuse"))