A/N: Hey guys! Massive MASSIVE thanks to an anon reviewer named "story ideas" that basically gave me the plotline for this chapter! Most credit goes to her I'm just writing it out! And in case you haven't noticed, we can make story covers now! What do you think of mine? I make all of them myself haha Onto the chapter(which for a change will be in 3rd person now )

Dylan and Lily finished their lunches in the janitor's closet, Dylan joking and finally tickling Lily just to get her to cheer up. After the bell rang, Dylan opened the door slyly and checked the hallway before jokingly pretending to pull out a walkie-talkie and say "All clear for preceding to 3rd period!", which of course earned him a good natured punch and "Come on, you goof!" from Lily.

Alter successfully avoiding Hannah for most of the day (besides one awkward run-in during 5th that was quickly avoided), Dylan and Lily made their way to the front of the school to collect their books from Lily's locker. She tried to pick up her math book and her English folder, but her Science folder slipped out of the heavy textbook and slipped to the ground. Picking up the folder, she noticed a trampled flyer on the ground.

"REMEMBER THIS" DANCE

COMMITTEE MEMBERS NEEDED, see room 269

OCTOBER 18th

7pm

"We should do it! It'd be fun to do the decorations and stuff!" Lily said, stuffing the paper in her backpack and closing her locker. "I don't know Lil'. It seems pretty girly to me." Dylan replied as they walked out the front door to wait for Kelly. "It won't be. It'll be fun." Lily said, and then waved to the Rosewood Animal Park truck driving towards them. "Okay, fine. I guess it won't be that bad." Dylan replied, still wary.

As the days passed, Lily and Dylan found that working on the dance was something both of them liked very much. For Dylan it came naturally, and he designed both the dance's logo and poster. Lily found that organizing the dance and all of its 7 committee members was helping her break out of her shell and forget about Hannah and her clique.

2 days before the big night, after the final touches had been put on the preparations, Kelly was driving the two home when Dylan said to Kelly "Can we pull in over by the house? There's something I want Lily to see."

Lily looked out the truck window. "Dylan, it's dark outside, silly!"

Driving past the house, Lily looked up in awe as Lite-Brites scrounged from the Zoo's attic spelled out "L-I-L-Y-,-D-A-N-C-E W-I-T-H M-E-?" on the roof where the two liked to lay.

Kelly rolled the truck to a stop, then hopped out saying "'l leave you two alone for a bit."

Lily and Dylan jumped out. Dylan looked hopefully at Lily. "So, what do you say?"

Lily smiled sheepishly. "I'd love to go with you Dylan." she said before throwing her arms around his neck and giving him a big hug.

Dylan hugged her back, and smiled at the stars behind her.

The night of the big dance, Lily threw on her dress (dark blue with ruching in the front) and a tad bit of makeup. She did her blonde hair into an up-do and put in her ears some crystal earrings. She walked downstairs and Kelly turned around to meet her.

"Oh, Lily! You look so pretty! So grown up!" Kelly said, giving her a big hug. "Thanks, Kelly." Lily said, blushing.

Lily grabbed her shrug and sat down to wait for Dylan.

(A/N: From this point on, things might deviate a little from the movie. Keep in mind this storyline wasn't fully developed in the movie and I honestly can't remember why lily is living with Kelly. SO, I'll just have to make it up from here, k?)

"Lil'?" Kelly asked timidly, sitting down next to Lily. "Yeah?" she replied.

"I'm surprised you're wearing your mom's earrings. I thought you didn't like wearing them." Kelly said carefully.

"Well, I guess I thought I'd like to have a piece of Mom with me tonight." Lily replied.

"Right." Kelly said. As Kelly was getting up to go back to the dishes, there was a knock at the door. Lily opened it to find Dylan, waiting for her in a suit, although looking a bit uncomfortable.

As they danced, Dylan didn't let go of Lily's hand all night. He got up the nerve to kiss her a couple times, but they were having a nice night, safely avoiding Hannah's desperate searches for him.

Song after song came on, and they had a great time. However, the DJ started the next song, and Lily stepped away.

"What's wrong?" Dylan asked, confused. He looked closer to find tears streaming down her face.

"Um…it's okay. It's just that this was the song my Mom and I used to dance around the kitchen to before the accident." Lily choked out.

"Oh…well, we don't have to dance to it if you don't want to. I'm going to go to the bathroom okay?" Dylan replied, unsure how to answer.

The second Dylan left, Lily turned around and pulled out a tissue, dabbing her eyes, and went to get some punch. Walking towards the streamer-clad table, she realized Hannah and her friends were gathered around it, whispering. All were clad in tight tube dresses and higher heels than any girl in the dance.

Lily quickly went to turn away, to go back to where Dylan would expect her to be waiting, but as Lily was turning around, Hannah suddenly leaned out of the circle and saw Lily.

"Crap." Lily said under her breath as Hannah made her way towards her.

"Hey Lily! Where's Dylan?" Hannah said, grabbing Lily's arm and pulling her towards the punch table.

"Um, in the bathroom." Lily replied. "I actually should probably um go wait for him." Lily said.

"Would you like some punch first?" Hannah asked, a bit too nicely.

"Um, yeah, but…"

The next few seconds happened in slow motion. As Lily turned around, trying to complete her sentence and say "I should go find Dylan", trying to walk away, Hannah and 2 of her friends lifted the large glass punch bowl and proceeded to pour the dark pink punch all over Lily.

After the punch had been drained, lily stood there gaping as students crowded around her. Hannah's clique, in a rush to get out of the situation, knocked over Lily, leaving her lying on the floor. A student's foot accidentally kicked her head, and lily felt dizzy.

The last thing she remembered was a thin shoe heel brutally crushing a delicate crystal earring on the floor in front of her face.

A/N: Hope you guys liked it, and MUCH thanks to that anon. Sorry, this took so long, I've had finals, but now that school is out I should be able to update more, even though I do have a job this summer so….

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