Hi! It's Beta back with another chapter of Happy Crush Day! Why is it that chapters always look shorter once you upload them? Anyways this chapter is just something I made up as I went along. It takes place during the first meeting of the dance committee.
Disclaimer: GLC is not mine. If it was...well let's not go there.
Gabe's POV
"Okay people! We have exactly three weeks to make this gym the most romantic place on earth!" Heather (the hot one) says. "First we need to plan! I say a romantic Paris theme. Anyone have any other ideas?"
Jo puts up her hand. "Who put you in charge?"
"Mrs. Young...the principal," Heather smirks. Jo just rolls her eyes.
"I think we should have an old fashioned regular C-Day dance. You know, with lots of pink and red and white," Kit suggests.
"Too boring," Heather says popping her gum. "Anything else? Lucille…Chance…Gabe?" Heather looks at me expectantly.
"I dunno," I shrug. "Underwater?"
Heather shakes her head. "Too wet."
"Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!" Jake says literally jumping in his seat.
I spin around. "Jake? What are you doing here?"
"I'm here to help with the dance. Duh!" Jake laughs, like that explained everything.
"Jake?" Heather raises an eyebrow.
"Oh yeah! Um...we should have a Monster Mash theme! We all should get to dress up as our favourite monster and we should have games like bobbing for apples and pin the witch on the broomstick! And we could also have one of those cool fog machine thingies and maybe even a haunted house and—"
"Jake, this isn't Halloween," Heather says, crinkling her nose.
"It isn't?" Jake gives Heather a genuinely confused look.
"I think we should have a Romeo and Juliet type theme," says a girl I don't recognize. She has long brunette hair and pale blue eyes. She's the hottest girl I've ever seen. I know I've said that about Kit, and Heather, and pretty much every other girl I've ever had a crush on but this time I'm certain. She is seriously the hottest.
"Who the heck are you?" Jo looks at the girl.
"I'm Juliette," she replies instantly.
"Well Juliette, Romeo and Juliet is pretty romantic," Heather says tapping her clip board with her pen, "but you do know how many people die in that play, right?"
"Six, but it doesn't matter. It's not like we're actually going to have people running around and killing one another," Juliette points out.
"Yeah but still…" Heather says biting her lip, "Anything else?" I see Juliette frown out of the corner of my eye.
"I kinda like the Romeo and Juliet thing," I say, hoping to impress Juliette.
Jo rolls her eyes. "Like you even know who Romeo and Juliet are," she laughs.
I ignore her. "We could have a giant balcony or something and we could wear whatever-the-heck they wore back then." I say. Juliette smiles at me. I smile back.
"Cool...but wouldn't that be kind of expensive?" Kit asks.
"I think you guys forgot the little detail that I'm the richest person at this school!" Brittney sings.
"So you'll pay for us to rent a fake giant balcony?" Juliette asks hopefully.
"Heck no! I'm pretty sure the drama club already one of those," Brittney says.
"O-kay? What about costumes?" Juliette asks.
"If you think I'm actually going to wear one of those dresses, think again," Jo glares at her.
"We don't actually have to dress like they did back then. We could just wear regular dresses and tuxedos or whatever," Chance says.
"Chance? You're here too?" I look at him.
"Yeah. You didn't notice before? You, me, and Jake are the only guys here," Chance shrugs.
I look around. He's right. This place is crawling with girls...sweet!
"Then what's the point of the theme?" Heather asks.
"We could dress like superheroes with superpowers and weaknesses!" Jake exclaims, "We could wear superhero masks and superhero suits and have weird superhero catchphrases! We could even have superhero names like Crusher or Dilly bar..."
"Dilly bar?" Lucille raises an eyebrow.
"What? I'm hungry!" Jake's eyes widen as Lucille passes him a granola bar.
"Wait! Jake! You're a genius!" Heather squeals.
"He is?" Jo looks doubtful.
"I am?" Jake says with his mouth full of granola bar.
"Masks! It could a costume ball! We could all wear fancy masks and stuff, but they'll still be a giant balcony. We'd eat French foods and maybe even have bobbing for apples or whatever. We could also decorate the gym with regular pink and red hearts so we can include a bit of everyone's ideas!" Heather claps her hands, dropping her clip board.
"What does any of this have to do with underwater?" I ask.
"We can include a bit of everyone except Gabe's ideas!" Heather corrects herself.
I shrug. The dance seems pretty weird to me. Adding water would just make it weirder.
"I'm bored. Is the meeting over yet?"Jo whines.
"First we have to vote. All in favour of making this weirdly awesome idea the theme of our C-Day dance?"
Everyone raises their hands instantly. Not because we like the idea, but because we are all bored out of our minds and would kill to go home right now.
"Okay, everything theme is in. This meeting is O-V-E-R!" Heather declares as she walks out of the room. Everyone else follows shortly after.
"Thanks for helping me out back there. Most people don't listen to the new girl," I look up to see Juliette standing in front of me. She is wearing an orange t-shirt, skinny jeans, and brown boots.
"No problem. So you're new, huh? I was wondering why I hadn't noticed someone as pretty as you before," I say, turning on my charm.
Juliette giggles.
"I'm Gabe."
"I'm Juliette, but I'm pretty sure you already knew that. So...um...could you help me find my way out of this dump-I mean school?"
I laugh. "Sure!" I say grabbing my bag and standing up. We walk off together, not noticing that someone else was still in the room.
As we walk through the halls our shoulders touch. Before I even realize it, I grab her hand. Juliette just smiles and grips it tighter.
Wow, I think I just found my Juliet...
As you can tell, I changed the summary. I changed it because before I didn't know what to write. Now that I have developed the plot a bit more and changed the summary, the story will probably sound a lot more interesting.
Peace out,
Beta ;)