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Chapter 12:
"Those lights are supposed to be white!" Lissa yelled over to me. Yes, I was climbing the trees for her, as she stood there with a clipboard and a cell phone against her ear. "Eddie! Fix them!"
He ran over to the controller for the fancy lights and started to play around with the colors. I continued to spread the lights in the tree. "Nice ass Rose." Jesse called from the ground.
"Shut the hell up." I responded, throwing a twig at his head.
"Jesse! I want you inside, and Rose, I need those lights higher!" Lissa ordered. I draped the remaining light strings over a branch, and continued to climb higher.
"Damn." I cursed as the branch under me snapped. Screaming, I could feel myself fall for a second. I heard Lissa gasp as I fell, but I managed to grab the next branch down. "See Liss? I can only go so high." The cuts in my hands stung, but were only scrapes.
"Adrian, get up there and help Rose so she doesn't end up killing herself." She helped him, and I slowly pushed myself up the branch with my arms. I helped Adrian up, and we both climbed back up to the top.
"You scared me there." Adrian said as he pulled up behind me.
"Nah, you know I've got good reflexes."
He grinned. "You do." He took my hands and healed the wounds.
"You're getting better at that! Hand me those lights?" I asked as I stepped up another branch, testing my weight on it with my foot.
"Sure." He handed me the string, and I started looping it around the branch. "Promise me you won't do that again."
"Ugh. Fine, Adrian."
"We have three hours people!" Lissa screamed. "Pick up the pace!"
"God Liss. It's just a dance."
"It's THE dance Rosemarie Hathaway." She snapped.
Adrian and I laughed as I stepped up another branch. "When does this end?" Adrian asked, referring to Lissa.
"When all of this is over. Then she obsesses about something else. It's a cycle." I stepped up another branch, and he followed, holding my waist so I could use both hands.
He smiled. "You've got one last branch." We finally reached the top, just in time to see the beginning of the sunset.
"This is like one of those sappy romance movies." I commented.
"These moments seem better in real life." He kissed me lightly on the lips.
* * *
I got out of the shower and put on the robe Lissa had forced me to take with me.
The whole dorm was almost buzzing with excitement, everyone laughing and getting ready. I opened Lissa's door to find her blow-drying her hair, her makeup on, and her dress on the bed.
"Sit." She motioned to an empty chair, and started on my hair, drying it, and curling it. When she was done curling, he took several ringlets and pinned them to the back of my head, so it looked like my hair was cascading down my back.
She switched off the curling iron and started on my makeup, giving me a smoky eye, with lots of mascara, so when she was done, my eyelashes we huge. She motioned for me to get up, and I got into my dress.
"I gotta say Liss, we look great." I said to her as we looked in her full-length mirror. Her hair was straight and it fell down her back beautifully. She had on neutral makeup, and she looked radiant.
She put on her pair of heels, and she held out a pair to me. They were black stilettos. And god, were they tall. She grabbed her bag, and I grabbed mine, taking out a pair of black shutter sunglasses. I put them on, being careful not to mess up my makeup or hair.
"Why are you wearing those?"
"Eddie dared me and Adrian to. You were drunk, you probably don't remember."
She smiled, and pulled me along. "Come on Rose. You and your shutters are going to be late!"
She pulled me down the hall, and some girls were walking around, already in their dresses. Several girls told Lissa she looked great, and how excited they were, but we got to the stairwell quickly.
"Adrian and Christian are going to meet us at the doors." She informed me.
"Ok. Sure." We walked out the doors to find the guys waiting for us. Christian was wearing a simple black tux, as was Adrian. And oh my god, he looked hot.
"Hey." Adrian said, and I could see his eyes sweep my body, enjoying the dress as much as he had the first time he saw it. "You look beautiful." He murmured in my ear as he pulled me close to him.
"You clean up nice." I commented.
"Nice?"
I laughed. "You look great."
"That's better." He took my hand and we all walked over to the place where the dance was going to be.
Adrian started talking to Chrsitian, and I was talking to Lissa, when a senior moroi whistled in our direction. Lissa and I looked at each other, then cracked up, but Adrian and Christian didn't look too happy. "Oh calm down Adrian!" He still looked angry. "It happens all the time, lighten up."
He wrapped his arm around my waist. "You do look great."
"Yes, I am unbelievably sexy." He kissed my forehead.
"Yes. Yes you are." He said. I grinned up at him, and he kissed me quickly.
We made it to the doors. My hard work in the trees had paid off well. The trees around the door looked beautiful. We stopped for pictures before we went in. We took two pictures, the first of us, smiling, the second was of Adrian kissing me on the lips, like in all of those cheesy wedding photos.
We parted ways then, because Lissa had to deal with some last minute problems. The way things work at our proms, the slow songs come first, then they put on a mix so you could dance with your date and your friends. And we were late, so a lot of couples were dancing already. Adrian and I went to the corner table that had the best view of the dance floor, and we dropped our things there, before Adrian led me onto the dance floor.
As I lay my head against his chest, and thought about how this moment would be one I wanted to remember for a long time to come.