chapter 11:
"Damian, no and that's final!" Lindsay whisper shouted at the Tuxedo shop.
"Why not, I believe it looks quite grand" He exclaimed euphorically
She put her face in her hands, and looked at Marissa and Samuel for support.
"Uh Damian, I don't think a green tuxedo is appropriate for this sort of occasion" Marissa said
stammering. Damian hung his head and looked at Samuel with hopeful eyes, butt all he got in
return was a shrug and halfhearted smile. Damian hung his head, and went to go find a black
one.
"Linds, we've been at this for like 2 hours, we still need to buy our dresses so the guys can
match with us." Marissa whined, leaning her head on Samuel.
"She's right Lindsay, you girls go buy your dresses, and I'll attempt to control Damian's green
obsession." Sam said, placing a kiss on Marissa's cheek.
They got up and climbed in Marissa's car, and drove downtown to "Prom Perfection". The
Best dress shop in Lima. They got out and opened the glass door to the extravagant shop.
The racks and bins were flooding with different dresses, accessories, shoes, and makeup and
hair products.
"What color dress are you getting?" Marissa asked Lindsay who was examining a yellow high
heeled tennis shoe with great confusion.
"NOT green" Lindsay said, abruptly dropping the shoe.
Marissa laughed at her friend, and continued on, looking through the stacks of dresses.
After about an hour, they took their stacks of dresses into the purple dressing rooms, and
modeled each one.
"How about this one Mars?" LIndsay said.
Marissa craned her neck over the cubicle to see Lindsay in a mid-length, red dress with thin
straps, a small slit up the side, and a lace-up back. The Red popped against her Raven black
hair, and made her look absolutely beautiful.
"You look Amazing Lindsay" Marissa shouted hugging her best friend.
Lindsay laughed and hugged her back, they toppled over and landed in the pile of dresses.
"What about your dress Mars?" Lindsay asked, picking herself up.
Marissa shrugged, and headed back into the changing room, after several more dresses,
Marissa came out in a beautiful dress. It was a Shimmering Deep Blue, short strapless dress
that looked absolutely stunning.
"That is the one, hands down" LIndsay said nodding. Marissa looked herself up and down at
herself in the mirror and was shocked. This dress was amazing. After returning the boatloads
of dresses they tried on, they headed over to the shoes. Lindsay decided on some black high
heels with red inserts, and Marissa got a shiny silver pump. the browsed through everything
else and each bought two more things. Lindsay bought a gold necklace, and gold earrings,
with green accents for Damian. Marissa on the other hand bought silver shimmering eye
shadow, and a Blue jeweled necklace. They left, overjoyed, and headed over to The Lima
Bean.
"Hey" Marissa said, on the phone with Samuel
"Hi Mars, what's up?" Sam asked, checking the time on his watch.
"we're at the lima bean, I just called to tell you the dress colors, red for Lindsay and mine is
blue, also we thought it would be fun if we did the wedding thing where we can't see each
other's clothes until homecoming" Marissa said, gasping from the long sentence she had
managed to get out.
"That sounds great, Me andDamo will go finish up our buying, and see you soon" He said
smiling.
"Alright see you then" Marissa said.
"Bye" he said, hanging up
"Love you too " he thought to himself.
"I can't believe we get the day off tomorrow just because of choir" Lindsay exclaimed
"Yeah, but we're practicing all day for homecoming at My house all day" Marissa said,
between sips of her drink.
"But the boys will be there, and we have a sleep over after that" Lindsay said, nudging
Marissa.
"Yeah, I guess that'll be good" She said.
They talked for about a half an hour more, and then The boys came in, surprisingly with Emily
and Bryce.
"We ran into them in the parking lot, so we invited them to come here with us." Damian
explained.
"Hey guys, how are you?" Marissa asked.
Bryce gave Emily a look that leered into her like tape over her mouth, but no one noticed
except Sam.
"um, I uh I'm fine, better than ever,heh" Emily stuttered
"Excuse me, I need to leave with Emily, we'll miss our appointment" He said, grabbing her by
the wrist sharply making her wince in pain, and dragging her out the door.
In the parking lot, Bryce's smile flew off his face, and was replaced with an angry expression
"Don't ever do that to me again, they probably know" He shouted, slapping her. she grabbed
her cheek and tears came flooding from her eyes.
"But you think I'm pretty right?" She whispered, her hands over her cheek.
"No, I think your fat, and I think you are ugly, and you should have never been born." He said,
slamming open the car door.
She ran as fast as she could to her house and threw herself on her bed sobbing.
"Why...Why me?" She sobbed, reaching for the phone. She then preceded to call the only
person in the world she could trust.
"Hello" A high voice called.
All she got in return was a sob, Ellis knew.
"Come over right now" She instructed.
After hanging up, Ellis waited ten minutes at the door, until she saw a dark figure walking up
her sidewalk. Ellis ran to her and pulled her into a hug. Ellis took her inside and removed the
hood from off her face, to reveal a large bruise forming on her cheek.
"Emily, you need to get away from him, look at what he's done to you again" Ellis said, placing
some ice over the bruise.
"But whenever i try and get away, he always pulls me back in" She said between sobs
"You have to quit choir, and change classes. Avoid him at all costs" Ellis said firmly.
"I can't now, I've done horrible things" She said pulling up her sleeves to reveal, scratches up
and down her arms.
Ellis gasped, and pulled Emily in tighter.
"I am so sorry, I'm reporting him to the principal, you need to be safe Emily" She said
Emily just sobbed and clutched onto Ellis like it was her life support, which at this point, she
was.
Ellis called Mr. Schue and alerted him about Bryce, and he listened intently.
"Thank you Ellis, this is very serious, how long has this been happening?" He questioned/
"about three years, I can't believe it's gone on this long without anyone doing anything about
it." She said
"Me too, it's horrible, okay I'll alert the principal and we'll get Bryce some consequences"
"Thanks Mr. Schue, that means a lot for Emily to feel safe."
She hung up, and told Emily the good news.
"Ellis, you are the most amazing friend in the whole world, and probably the only real friend in
a long time" She said, drying her eyes.
"Nothing but love" Ellis said smiling.
Emily smiled too, the first genuine smile in a long time, because finally she was happy.
"Hannah will you go to homecoming with me"
"Ms. Mclalwain, would you accompany me to this formal affair"
"Hey babe, you me homecoming"
Cameron had been practicing for days how to ask Hannah to homecoming in front of his
mirror but nothing was working.
"She probably thinks I'm a total loser" he sighed flopping onto his bed. he laid their for a long
time, listening to Beatles music which usually lightened his mood, but today was an exception.
When the first star appeared in the sky, Cameron jumped up to his window, clasped his hands
together, and shut his eyes.
"Dear star, please just give me a fairytale happily ever after, just for tonight?" Cameron
wished. He waited a minute or two, and then sat back on his bed.
"great, nothing as usual'' he said disgruntled.
at around 11:00 a tap came at his window, multiple taps actually.
Cameron awoke from his half-sleep state, and opened his window. He rubbed his eyes and
scanned the yard for someone, but all that he saw was a large sign.
HOMECOMING ! MEET ME TOMORROW AT MARISSA VON BLEICKEN'S HOUSE IF THE
ANSWER IS YES AT 9AM.
'' Love, a fellow member?'' He said. with a quizzical look on his face.
"Maybe it's Hannah!" He cried, his spirits soaring.
He the got an aching feeling in his gut, He saw a tall, lean figure creeping out from behind a
tree.
"It's not her, it's someone else, I guess i'll go anyways." he said, his voice dropping low.
Little did he know, the same sign was planted in the yard of one Hannah Mclalwain. Who was
this mystery person in the tight knittings of the group that knew everything?
Meanwhile Alex was spotted again by Matheus, with Sebastian. Matheus was heading home
from his grandmother's when he spotted Alex and Sebastian sitting on a bench, Sebastian's
arm around Alex.
"What the hell is he doing, with the enemy?" Matheus thought.
Matheus thought it was UN-sportsmanship like to be canoodling with their rival, but at least he
was Happy. Matheus knew how hard everything was for Alex, especially in a place like Lima
Ohio.