Warren walked through the Paper Lantern and set down an order in front of a costumer. He had picked up an extra shift so that he wouldn't have to face Destiny yet. He glanced over to the booth the Layla had been sitting in. He was shocked to see Stronghold sitting over there. He looked really upset.

Warren sighed, he had told Destiny he would be nice to him so he walked over "What are you doing here?" he asked.

Will looked up "I'm uh, looking for Layla. Do you know where she is?"

"How should I know?" Warren asked.

"I don't know you're taking her to homecoming"

"Oh yeah, right" Warren felt a piercing pain in his heart.

"Well you don't have to worry about me ruining your night" Will said trying to smile.

"And why's that?" Warren was genuinely curious.

"Because I'm not going" Will sighed.

"Hmm, well that sucks" Warren said honestly You can't be serious! "Because we're only going together to make you jealous" Warren sat down opposite Will.

Will stared then finally said "Huh?"

"Dude you are so stupid she's totally into you" Warren said forwardly.

Look who's talking Will was tempted to say but he really didn't want to push his luck "Not after tonight, I wouldn't be surprised if Layla or any of the other guys ever want to talk to me again"

"Man, you must have been a real jerk" Warren said "Cause no matter what I do, I cant get them to stop talking to me" It was the honest truth at least twenty times that day Layla and Eathan especially had come up and started hassling him.

"Thanks" Will said, Warren shrugged and stood back up. "Hey" he called after him. Warren turned "If you don't really want to go with Layla, why didn't you ask Destiny?"

"Excuse me?" Warren said.

"You think I'm stupid for not realizing my friend likes me? What about you?"

Warren just stood there. "What do you mean?"

"Destiny" Will said "How can you not have seen it? If I was you I'd go talk to her while I still had the chance" Will suddenly looking really depressed.

"Hey" Will looked back up and Warren said "Maybe you still do" Will smiled weakly, so did Warren.

Warren thought seriously about what Will had said to him, not that bad after all Warren thought.

Warren had made up his mind by the time he got off work. He walked along the street, trying to get his words right. Before he knew it he was standing outside Destiny's house. Warren took a deep breath in a climbed the few stairs up to the door. He knocked and cringed as he heard footsteps.

"Oh hello Warren" Angelina said as she answered the door.

"Uh hi, is Destiny here?" Warren asked.

"Oh no she isn't I'm sorry" Angelina said.

"Oh. Um, could you do me a favour and tell Destiny I was looking for her, tell her I need to tell her something important" Warren said.

"Ok" Angelina said gently with a smile, knowing exactly what he was talking about.

"And Angelina" Warren started "I- uh, I'm really sorry about last night, I was a real jerk"

Angelina smiled "Goodnight Warren"

Warren walked next door and went inside. His mother was sitting at the kitchen table and as he walked in the door she jumped up and hugged him "Warren honey, I'm so sorry for what I did last night, I didn't know it was upsetting you"

"Mum, it's ok" Warren put his arms around his mother "It wasn't you, it was just, uh, something happened with Destiny, I mean almost happened and…"

"Yes?" Lydia asked eyeing him curiously.

"I'm in love with her, I cant take it anymore I have to tell her" Warren waited for it…

"AAAAH! I knew it! You are going to get married and have babies and-"

"Mum!" Warren laughed a little "Chill out"

They talked about it a little more and after a lot of Lydia screaming excitedly and Warren telling her not to say anything to anyone, Warren finally got to bed. He looked out his window, but Destiny still wasn't home. He looked at his clock and saw it was 11:30. Warren furrowed his eyebrows, Destiny never usually stayed out this late. He decided he would stay up until she came home, at least then he would know she was ok and he could possibly talk to her.

He sat there for a few hours trying not to drift off, he looked at the clock again and saw it read 2:45am. Warren was getting really worried. He sat at his window until he couldn't keep his eyes open anymore. When he woke up the sun was up, it was 1:30pm.

"What!" Warren said aloud.

He went and had a shower. Half way through it he heard his cell phone ring, he jumped out of the shower soaking wet. He answered it without even checking caller ID, he just prayed it was Destiny. "Hello? Des is that you?" he said.

"Warren, it's Layla"

"Oh hi" Warren's heart plummeted.

"Is it still ok if we go to homecoming together?" Layla asked.

"You didn't talk to Will last night?" Warren asked.

"Wha- how did you know about last night?"

"I saw Stronghold at work last night"

"Oh, well no I haven't, so will it be ok?"

"Uh, yeah it'll be ok I suppose"

"Thanks, see you then" Layla hung up.

Warren figured that if he did go with her it would only be until Stronghold turned up and he could spend the rest of the night with Destiny. Destiny! He threw on some clothes and raced next door.

"Destiny?" Angelina said as she answered the door "Oh Warren you haven't seen her have you?"

"No" Warren felt sick, where was she?

Angelina looked extremely worried.

"Uh look I'm sure she is ok" Warren tried to reassure Angelina as well as him self "We kinda had a fight yesterday, she probably stayed over a friends house, you know to get away from me. I mean I am next door. She's probably getting ready for homecoming"

"Ok" Angelina sighed still worried "Well if you see her tell her to call me"

Warren hoped that was exactly what had happened. He looked at his watch: 2:45. The homecoming dance started in about two hours. Warren went back to his house and got something to eat. He then went upstairs and put on the tuxedo.

When he went back downstairs "Oh honey you look so handsome" Lydia smiled. Warren didn't smile, he felt stupid. "Well you'd better get going"

"Can you fly me up?" he asked. "Of course" She answered they walked outside and Lydia picked Warren up under the arms and flew into the air. They were flying for about 15 minutes. When they got to the school Lydia straightened up Warren's tux and tried to fix his hair "I honestly don't know why you don't cut this off, you have such a nice face and you have hair falling all ov-"

"See ya mum" Warren cut in, he kissed her on the cheek and turned to walk inside. He looked around for Destiny and still didn't see her. But he spotted Layla by the punch table, he sighed and walked towards her.

"The guys at this school are jerks" He heard her say.

"Thanks a lot" he said, you're probably right.

She turned "I thought you weren't going to rent a tux" she smiled.

"It's my dad's, doesn't have much use for it in solitary" Warren told her.

Wow awkward Layla thought "Cheese cube?" she said picking one up off the table.