The ballroom where the prom was taking place at was decorated with colorful streamers and balloons and the lights were off expect for the flashing colorful lights flying around the room. When Gerard entered along with Penelope, Mikey, and Blake, Frank came up to them with his usual big smile on his face. His spiked up dark hair was this time combed a little back and he looked very handsome with the black tux he had on as well as a red vest and tie like Gerard's.

"Hey," he greeted everyone. "You all look really good,"

"Thanks so do you," Gerard replied. "So where's Madison?"

"Oh she's over there at that table,"

Frank was referring to a table that was across the room. It was full of the school's jocks and cheerleaders. Madison was accompanying them and laughing along. Her hair was up in a stylish bun and she was wearing a tight strapless red gown.

"We're sitting with her friends," Frank stated. "You guys can come join us if you want,"

"Come on Mikey let's go," Blake said while giving Mikey's hand a small squeeze which just got Mikey blushing.

"Okay," he shyly replied.

But before they had time to leave, Penelope beckoned to Mikey.

"Wait Mikey do you think I could talk to you for just a minute?"

"Uh okay sure Penny," Mikey turned to Blake. "Do you mind Blake?"

"No go ahead it's all right. Just don't keep me waiting too long."

Before departing to the table, Blake gave a kiss to Mikey's cheek which just turned red afterwards.

"It'll be just a second," Penelope then said to Gerard.

"That's okay," Gerard replied. "I needed to talk to Frank about something anyway,"

"Okay. I won't be long. Promise."

Penelope led Mikey a few feet away from Gerard and Frank and then spoke to him in a tone that only he could hear.

"I'm a little nervous about tonight. I think I might've come on too strong with Gerard."

"Why do you say that?"Mikey asked.

Penelope started to blush and looked down at the floor when she confessed.

"Um, I kissed Gerard,"

"You kissed?"

Penelope shushed Mikey so he wouldn't speak up so loudly. Luckily no one else bothered to hear.

"Yes we kissed," Penelope said. "It's just that he was being real sweet when he came to pick me up and he gave me this beautiful corsage so I thought that it was a perfect moment. But now it seems like it's a tad bit awkward between us. Like he won't even look at me now. I never should've tried to kiss him."

"Aw Pen don't worry about it. I'm sure he does like but he's just a little nervous. I mean, he's never really had a girlfriend before."

"He's never had a girlfriend before?" Penelope asked in disbelief.

Mikey widened his eyes a little bit in shock, knowing he shouldn't have said what he did.

"Damn it I wasn't supposed to say that,"

"I thought Gerard would've had girlfriends before. He's like real good-looking and girls are like always checking him out."

"Well he doesn't really like any of the girls at this school and no one has ever really caught his attention. Well, I guess you changed that."

Penelope started to grin and continued to blush. She certainly felt flattered that the boy she had been crushing on since the 7th grade decided that she was worthy enough to go out with.

"Besides, you two will definitely click," Mikey reassured. "You both like art, music, comics, and movies. So just talk about that kind of stuff."

"Okay. Thanks Mikey," Penelope gave her friend a big hug. "Now go to your date. I think you two are very cute together."

"Thanks," Mikey replied with a big grin on. Then he walked to the table where Blake was.

"You two kissed?" Frank asked in disbelief. Gerard had just confessed to him about what had happened between Penelope and him.

"Yes we kissed," Gerard continued on. "It was great. It was a small kiss but it was nice. I didn't think my first kiss would be very..sweet. But now I'm being completely lame. I can't even look at her because she'll probably think I'm a dork. Man, I guess now I can relate to Ray and his thing for Charlotte."

"Hey man it's like you said, it was your kiss. You didn't see it coming. Just try to be yourself and then I'm sure Penelope will love you."

"It's so weird though. I've never really been this affected by someone like this before. Well except Christina Ricci but that's a different thing. I think I might really like Penelope."

"Well then great," Frank said. "You guys do look pretty nice together,"

"But I don't even know what I'm even supposed to say to her,"

"Well you both are into art. Start with that." Frank advised.

Penelope walked towards the two. She gave them a welcoming smile. Gerard gave her a genuine smile back.

"I'll just leave you two kids alone," Frank then said. "You guys have fun,"

Frank gave Gerard a small smirk before leaving to his table. Gerard and Penelope were now alone with each other. Penelope looked down to the floor, trying to hide her blushing face and Gerard cleared his throat.

"Would you, uh, like to sit down?" Gerard finally asked.

"Okay,"

Gerard took Penelope's hand in his and led her to a table. He pulled out a chair for her to sit on which she took happily.

"Looks like I'll be with a gentleman tonight," Penelope attempted to be flirty but spoke in an awkward tone.

Gerard smiled at her though and sat next to her. He spoke next.

"So Penelope-"

"Um you could call me Penny if you want. I don't really care much for Penelope."

"Okay. So Penny, I know you're a big fan of art. What form of art are you into?"

"Well I do really like to paint," Penelope started. "But photography is definitely what I really love to do. It sucks that we haven't done anything like that in class."

"So is photography what you want to do after high school?" Gerard asked like an interviewer.

"Actually yes, I was hoping to study at the School of Visual Arts in New York to study photography,"

"No way. That's the school I had plan on going!"

"Really?"

"Yeah, I planned on going there to study cartooning. I wanna be a comic book writer."

"Wow that's really cool,"

Meanwhile, Charlotte had just let Ray inside her home. He remembers coming over sometimes with the rest of the guys but this time, he was going to have Charlotte all to himself. He hoped he wouldn't do or say anything stupid. Coming downstairs were two women holding hands. One of them was a little chubby with long and wavy black hair while the other looked younger, was thinner, and with medium length light brown hair.

"Ray you remember my mother Janie," Charlotte pointed to the woman with black hair. "And her partner Debbie," then to the one with brown hair.

"Of course I do," Ray said. He greeted the two women with a friendly smile and shaked each of their hands. "It's great to see you two again,"

"Great to see you too Ray," Janie said just as friendly. She turned to Charlotte afterwards. "Okay miss I may have let you invite Ray over but you still have Christopher to take care of,"

"I know mom I just put him down for a nap," Charlotte stated. "I'll be checking on him every thirty minutes,"

"Good. Debbie and I will probably be back at around 10 or 11. You kids behave yourselves."

Charlotte opened the door for her moms and she and Ray waved goodbye to them as they drove away.

"So what movies did you bring?" Charlotte asked Ray.

Ray rummaged through the bag that he brought with him and got out a couple of DVDs.

"I have 28 Days Later, Hellraiser, and if we're in the mood…Texas Chainsaw Massacre,"

"Not bad," Charlotte said. "But I think I can beat them,"

She walked towards the den and went to the shelf with all the DVDs and got out three.

"The Omen, Suspiria, and Audition,"

"No fair! Asian horror always wins!" Ray exclaimed.

Charlotte stuck her tongue out at him like a little kid and giggled. Ray replied by pretending to sulk as he sat on the couch. Charlotte joined him.

"Aw I'll tell you what, we watch 28 Days Later, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and then Audition as the best for last,"

"I guess that works too," Ray said pretending to still be upset.

"You're such a little kid Ray," Charlotte chortled. "What kind of food did you bring?"

Once again, Ray rummaged through his bag and got out two small containers. He opened one which revealed….

"Sushi," he started. He opened the other small container which had a few tiny hamburgers. "And I got some of those Junior Burgers that you love so much. Extra bacon of course."

"Aw you remember two of my favorite foods," Charlotte responded sweetly. She leaned forward and gave Ray's cheek a kiss. "I ordered a pizza. It'll be here in a couple of minutes. Sorry if you get disgusted by me pigging out."

"Hey I think you're always cute," Ray stated. But he blushed madly afterwards. He didn't want to come on too strong with Charlotte but she didn't seem to mind at all.

"Aw um thanks Ray. I think you're really cute too."

There was a silence for a couple of minutes and the two gave each other awkward glances. The doorbell suddenly rang.

"That's probably the pizza," Charlotte said. "I better go get it,"

"Yeah okay," was all Ray had to say. When Charlotte got up to go to the door, he gave his forehead a smack and groaned.