AN: Okay, this is my last chapter. I may or may not write an epilouge, it really depends. This chapter I'm using a slightly different style of writing than I usually do. There's a bit more humor in it than I usually write. Anyway, enough of my rambling and on with the story.
Disclaimer: If I owned it, I wouldn't be writing this.
Two months later
Aside from finals and end-of-the-school-year projects, there was one thing prominent on every student's mind. The end-of-the-year dance.
Dairine was not going, but that couldn't stop the words flying across the halls.
Is Dairine even going to the dance?
She better not…
She won't be going, no guy in their right mind would ask her to the dance…
She scares them all off!
She scares the girls off too…
True, very true.
The boys are all scared of her…
She's too smart and cunning for her own good…
What she lacks in looks she makes up in smarts…
You say that like it's a good thing…
I heard her sister's going with the Rodriguez kid…
About time the two of them got together…
Which reminds me you owe me five bucks, I called it, you know I did…
Dairine could only laugh when she thought of all this.
No, she wasn't going to the dance. And none of the boys would ask her anyway, the others were right. But even then, she wouldn't say yes to any of them. The only boy she'd say yes to didn't even go to the school, so it didn't matter anyway.
It was true that she scared all the boys off though. They were scared of her. She beat them at their own games. From the first time when she took all of Johnny Waxel's marbles home with her from beating him at a game of chess back in fourth grade to when she took home all of Alex Conner's lunch money from beating him at poker.
As for the girls, they knew she was smarter than them and it scared them. But they didn't show fear, they showed jealousy and resentment.
It was true that Nita and Kit were going together. Kit asked her last week and she said yes. They were going to have dinner beforehand as well, afterwards they would spend a romantic evening on the moon. Though, Nita didn't know about the moon part just yet.
Which reminded her, Carmella owed her fifty dollars. Dairine said before the end of the school year. Carmella said by the end of the summer. Carmella wouldn't bet against Dairine again, at least, not at so high of stakes.
She was lying on her bed, finishing an English essay, when there was a knock on her door.
"Come in!" she yelled.
Roshaun peeked through the door.
"Dairine, I was wanting to ask you something."
"Go on."
"I was wondering if I could accompany you to your school dance."
Her head snapped away from Spot. Had he really just asked her that? How did he even know about the dance?
And yet, she could only say one thing, "Yes."
Roshaun smiled.
"How did you know about the dance?"
"From your sister and Kit. I'm supposed to be participating in your customs, so why don't I take you to a dance?"
"Thanks Roshaun." She leaped up and fell into his arms. They embraced for a long while and pulled apart after an eternity. But not before they kissed.
Nita held out her hand. "Hand it over!"
"No fair! You cheated!" Kit replied.
"My premonition doesn't work like that. My only advantage is she's my sister. Like I said, I told you he'd ask her to the end-of-the-year-dance."
Kit mumbled something incoherently and fished out ten dollars. It seems as though Dairine and Carmella weren't the only ones making bets about their siblings' love-lives.
Nita mouthed 'told you so' one more time before returning to her biology homework.
Mr. Callahan had of course heard the whole conversation. Though, it wasn't as if he wasn't expecting it. Roshaun had asked his permission before asking her.
Mr. Callahan approved of both boys that were accompanying his daughters to the dance. He had approved of Kit long ago. He only had to wait for Kit to ask. He approved of Roshaun as well. He and Dairine worked well together. He could not be any more happy for his girls.
His thoughts were interrupted by the doorbell ringing. He went to answer it merely because he was closer.
He opened it to find Carmella standing on the doorstep.
"Hello, Carmella." He said.
"Hi." She mumbled.
"Can I help you?" he asked, he was a bit taken aback by her lack of words, she always had something to say.
"I have something for Dairine." She said, fingering a fifty dollar bill.
Mr. Callahan eyed the money and then eyed Carmella.
"Dairine!" he called, "What have you done this time?"
Dairine came bounding down the stairs. "Oh, hey, Carmella!" she said with an evil smile on her face.
"Here." Carmella said handing over the bill. Then, her whole demeanor changed and she asked, "Did he ask you?"
Dairine nodded.
"Kit! You owe me twenty!"
There was a loud groan from the kitchen.
"Women."
Dairine and Carmella burst into laughter and Nita joined in, leaving the three men in the house confused, out of it, and slightly angry. In Mr. Callahan's, Roshaun's, and Kit's respective cases.
Well, there you go. Did you like it? Did you hate it? Please review and tell me!