Before you start reading this new chapter, I would just like to thank each and every one of you for reading this story. Also, I'd like to apologize to all the boys who are reading this story. The child was originally a boy, then I wanted to change it to make the reader the child—which was my true intention. When I found out that the majority of the readers were female, I turned the child into a daughter.
In this chapter, the child has no gender. Each and every one of you guys is their child, regardless of your gender. From here on, the child will be addressed as 'our firstborn', 'our child', etc.
Also, thank you so much for your answers! I was surprised that there were a lot of Hi-Def answers. There was one Flash4Ward and one Riptide. Is no one else like Lu$h Crew like me? Is there no Bodie? [If there was a Bodie, I think I'd chase after him!] Is nobody colourful or the real deal like D-Coy? Well, if you're Mo or Glitch, then you're Mo or Glitch. I don't blame you guys.
Now that that's out of the way, here is chapter seven: Senior Prom.
"Girl, can I tell you a wonderful thing?"
Every day at school I watched as everyone whispered to each other. I knew they were talking about me because it happened after I left school to pick Aubrey up from her old house.
The whispering went on for four months.
I wanted it to stop so I finally asked one of my co-stars what was going on.
"People are saying you did Miss Masters last year," he said. "I didn't believe them at first but Mr Johnson said you did."
I had a feeling it was because of that. I did say it loud and clear so it wasn't much of a shocker. It was just so annoying that it happened all around me that I wanted it to stop.
"I overheard the principal and some of the teachers talking about punishments for you," he continued. "I think the principal suggested expelling you for getting Miss Masters pregnant. I can't say it's official yet because she hasn't made a formal announcement."
"For someone who just overheard all this news, you know an awful lot," I told him as I fixed my uniform.
"You didn't hear it from me," he whispered and walked away.
I looked back at everyone and they continued their whispers.
During Physics class the principal went inside my classroom.
"I would like to see Mr Yoo in my office right now," she said with a demanding tone.
I stood up and saw everyone's shocked faces. I knew they had the feeling I was gonna get expelled. Even I had the feeling I was gonna get expelled. I swallowed the lump in my throat and left the classroom.
I followed the principal to her office and took a seat on the chair in front of her desk.
"I assume you know why I summoned you here," she said in a scary tone that could scare even the most fearsome of werewolves.
I nodded slowly and faced down to avoid her glare. "You sent me here because of the news of Miss Aubrey and I."
"Miss Aubrey?" she asked her tone still evident. "You shouldn't address your elders with such familiarity."
Her words made me mad. I knew I had to say something so I said the honest truth. "Aubrey is my girlfriend. Got a problem with that?"
She let out a gasp. It was a legit gasp and not some sarcastic gasp that meant she didn't believe me. "Yes, Mr Yoo. I do have a problem with that. How long have you been dating Aubrey Masters?"
"Since my freshman year," I said honestly, this time looking at her. "Our relationship isn't illegal, ma'am. We've been together when she was still a student so don't think that I only fucked her after she started coaching us!"
"Language!" she yelled as she stood from her desk. "Watch your foul mouth or else I will expel you."
I nodded. "Yes, ma'am. So, what punishment are you going to give me?"
She sat down and wrote something on a piece of paper. She handed the paper over to me and I got it from her.
I read what she wrote.
'Glitch Yoo is banned from attending any of Sherwood Academy's curricular activities such as interschool competitions, quiz bees, school productions, senior prom, etc. If you do not abide with your punishment, you will be expelled from Sherwood Academy. However, if you do follow this punishment, I will see to it that I will recommend you to all the elite performing arts universities throughout the world.'
No senior prom? That was unfair! I was furious with the principal but I couldn't argue with her anymore. One word from my mouth and I knew she would expel me.
I left her office and went straight back to Physics class.
When I got home I was welcomed with Aubrey's smiling face.
"Hi, Aubrey," I said then kissed her. Seeing Aubrey made me smile. She knew exactly how to cheer me up.
"Guess who finally got us a place to stay?" she asked excitedly.
I put a finger and pretended to think. "Uh, you?"
She shook her head. "Guess again!"
So it isn't her, I thought to myself. "Is it someone we both know?"
Aubrey nodded.
"Is it a family member?"
She shook her head.
"Are they a member of DCI?"
She nodded.
"Rasa and Lima?"
She shook her head.
"Angel?"
She hesitated but shook her head.
"Who is it?" I asked in surrender.
Her smile grew brighter. "I was joking. It really was Rasa and Lima!"
I laughed. She was cute when she joked.
"So, where is said place to stay?" I asked as I walked up the stairs.
Aubrey followed not so far behind me. "They showed me an apartment in Manhattan where the rent isn't so high and it's near both our jobs—you at DCI, and me at my dad's colleague's fashion company right on the Upper East Side!"
"Manhattan is near Sherwood," I whispered mostly to myself. "The area is perfect."
The two of us got to my room and sat on my bed.
"I gotta call them to thank them for the apartment," I said ask I looked for my walkie-talkie in my side table drawer.
Aubrey put a hand on my shoulder and I turned to look at her. "Who said it was an apartment?"
"It's in Manhattan," I replied. "All the places in Manhattan are apartments."
She shook her head. "We're getting the last two floors of a hotel owned by the Bass family."
I felt my jaw drop as I stared at her in shock. "WHAT?" was all I could manage to say.
Aubrey let out a giggle. "Apparently has some connections and his family is big in Manhattan. Lima told me his family owns almost a fifth of the apartment complexes, and the only hotel with a pool with a retractable roof and glass-ceiling rooms!"
"You never really know somebody," I whispered mostly to myself. "I never would've guessed that Rasa was born of a rich family."
"I never would've guessed you were a nice guy," Aubrey said with a smile. "You always seemed like a jerk to me."
I laughed because it was true. In Dance Central I was cocky and arrogant and an ass to everyone. Making compliments was hard to me. The best compliment I could come up with was: "Your moves are crazy! Like 'wearing-a-clown-suit-to-the-grocery-store' crazy!"
[I said this to Aubrey once back in Dance Central. She slapped me so hard that there was a mark on my cheek. My asshole-ness was pretty evident and I guess I deserved that. Look at where we are now in the story—we're living together!]
"I never would've guessed you aren't so snobby for a rich girl," I told her then kissed her on the lips.
"I never would've guessed your parents were dancers," she said then pinched my cheek.
"I never would've guessed you were single back when you were in high school."
"Are we gonna keep playing the 'I-never-would've-guessed' game?" Aubrey asked as she stood from the bed.
I didn't notice how thin she got after giving birth to our firstborn. Her physique was back to the way it used to be—if not, then slightly thinner. It had only been a month since you'd been born but she was already slim again.
"Have you been dancing?" I asked as she walked to the door.
Her curls waved back and forth as she shook her head. "No. Why do you ask?"
"Why are you skinny again? It's not a bad thing but, if you haven't been dancing, how'd you get your body back?"
Wow, that sounded wrong.
She looked at me but her mind was somewhere else. She seemed as if she was thinking of an answer. "I'm taking a diet with blended vegetables, a small amount of meat, some fruit, and a lot of almond milk."
I nodded. Her diet seemed pretty decent but for a month that seemed a bit impossible to lose all the baby weight.
I decided to ignore my over-thinking of Aubrey's diet and resumed looking for my walkie-talkie.
A few months had passed and I was at work in DCI to pay the rent of our penthouse-and-floor-below-it.
I was assigned with Bodie to keep a close eye on Olivia.
[For sure you already know Olivia. She's Dr Tan's wife with all the cherry blossoms and whatnot.]
Rasa and Lima never mentioned why we were supposed to watch Olivia but I knew we had to protect her from something.
Bodie and I stayed at a decent distance from Olivia's room. She knew we were there and she knew who we were but we had to keep our distance for professional purposes. We watched Olivia as she knit something with her needles and some blue yarn.
"Only a few hours until we get home," Bodie said as he stretched his back and sat on a chair. "I can't wait to lie down on my bed!"
I knew it was a terrible time to ask it but I felt like I was supposed to…and I did.
"What's going on between you and Angel?" I asked.
He looked at me and his face turned bright red. "Angel? Nothing's going on between me and Angel! We're just close friends!"
"Yeah, right," I said then rolled my eyes. "'Cos close friends let other close friends slap their butts and pinch their cheeks."
Bodie stayed silent. He probably didn't want to say anything so I let him be.
Olivia started knitting something else but with the same blue yarn as with a while earlier.
A few hours later our shift was over and we were about to head home when Olivia stopped us.
"Here, take these," she said and gave Bodie and I something for each of us. "I honestly don't know why I made them but I know they're meant for the both of you."
I got a blue-and-white headband that match Aubrey's Lu$h Crew uniform. Bodie got a blue-and-white striped scarf that matched Angel's crew look as well.
How she knew Aubrey and Angel were both related to the color blue is a mystery and is kinda freaky.
Bodie and I got back to headquarters and I walked up to Rasa and Lima.
"In two months it will be senior prom," I told them, not caring if they were making out or doing some urgent business. Luckily for me they weren't making out again. "I want you guys to set up an extravagant ball—nevermind."
The two looked at me strangely.
"What did you say?" Lima asked as she put down her tablet.
I cleared my throat, fixed my collar, and then spoke. "Can you set up a ball for DCI? I'm not allowed to go to my senior prom because of my asshole principal."
Rasa thought about it and looked at me. "How grand do you want it to be?"
"Just grand enough for everyone in DCI," I replied. "Anything will do as long as it looks like a ball."
Rasa and Lima looked at each other then nodded. They smiled.
"Okay, you can have your ball," Rasa said, his eyes still on Lima. "Let us plan it for you. You may leave now."
I quickly ran out of the office, let the doors close, and then put my ear on the door. I had a feeling they would make out. And they did.
Wow, those guys were in love!
I got home to the penthouse and was welcomed by Aubrey.
"Welcome home!" she said with a smile. "I made you some brownies."
My stomach grumbled. "Where are they?"
She giggled at the grumbling and led me to the kitchen. "I just looked up the recipe online and I thought: hey, why not bake some brownies?"
I looked at the table and saw some brownies. I picked one up and I ended up getting three all at once.
"Aubrey, why are these brownies stuck together?" I asked.
I bit one of them and it was so chewy, sticky, and too sweet.
"I don't think they're baked enough," I finally said. "And I think you overdid it with the sugar."
She took one (but ended up getting two) and bit it. She swallowed the brownie and put on a fake smile. "It's too sweet. I probably should've known that twenty sachets of Splenda was too much."
"Did you just say twenty packets of Splenda?"
"There's no need to get mad," she said. "How was I supposed to know anyway?"
She was right, I didn't need to get mad at her. As an apology I gave her the headband from Olivia.
"What's this?" she asked as she looked at the headband like it's something she's never seen before.
"That," I started, thinking of how to phrase my sentence. "That is a headband. It's a souvenir from the mission we did a while ago. Dr Tan's wife knit something for Bodie too."
She took off the headband she was wearing and put on the one from Olivia. It looked really good on her.
"How do I look?" she asked.
I smiled. "Each time you ask me how you look, I answer the same thing all the time! You look amazing!"
"You're just saying that," she said with a blush on her cheeks. "I guess I can say I look good but amazing? I'm not all that."
"Yes, you are," I said then kissed her.
[I feel like I put some unnecessary shit in this part of the story. Not all of these even lead to "prom" night! I guess I just wanted to make the story feel longer.
Anyway, here's the DCI ball.]
Aubrey and I got to the mansion that Rasa and Lima booked for the ball. It was huge and it had all these statues that looked so realistic and it gave the mansion an olden-day palace vibe.
"DCI have really outdone themselves," I said in awe.
The two of us walked in and saw everyone at DCI. They were already dancing so that meant they started way before we got there.
"You're here!" Emilia said as she hugged Aubrey.
Aubrey looked as if she wanted to push Emilia away but she didn't. Instead she put on a fake smile and hugged Emilia back. "It's nice to see you, Emilia."
The two released themselves from their embrace and Emilia ran to Angel.
Angel and Emilia kissed on the lips.
I was surprised. Angel and Emilia KISSED? What the heck did Angel have with Riptide and why were they so close?
I checked the room for Bodie and saw him standing in the corner of the ballroom looking all sad and depressed. I didn't approach Bodie but I just smiled in his direction. He didn't see my smile and he just frowned at the sight of Angel and Emilia.
It's official: Bodie was in love with Angel.
It's official: Emilia and Angel are dating.
It's official: I was confused.
The ball was over and we all had dinner in the mansion. Aubrey grabbed a plate and put a lot of random food like pastas, sushi, éclairs, and even chocolate mint cupcakes—her favourite kind!
"Whoa, Aubrey, there are fifteen other people here," I joked. "Don't get all of it!"
She gave me a glare. "I'm starving."
That was enough to keep me silent for the next five minutes.
I looked at the others who were there.
Rasa and Lima were looking at each other with googly eyes. It was disturbing but at the same time kinda nice to look at. They're being all romantic around each other. It's as if they're married or engaged or whatever.
Dare and MacCoy we're talking rather loudly. What I find strange is that everyone wants the two of them to get together but the two are absolutely oblivious to the fact that they're perfect for each other. MacCoy isn't dreamy and Dare is rather quirky, so why not?
Mo and Taye—yet another couple—stay on the dance floor, still dancing. There was still music playing, which is why I think they're dancing. They were being sorta couple-y. It's actually nice that Mo is showing soft side.
And then there are Emilia, Angel, and Bodie. Riptide look like they're about to pounce on Angel with kisses on various parts of his body. Angel doesn't see the tension going on between them but he tends to kiss Emilia here and there. I could feel Bodie's urge to jump on Angel and with muscles like those, that's not gonna be hard.
Poor Angel. Poor Bodie. At least Emilia gets the guy.
Author's Note:
This chapter SUCKS! It's super rushed and Senior Prom is only like two minutes long! It's not even Senior Prom—it's DCI Ball. I made this chapter because I felt like the story needed an update. It's a terrible update, I know.
Anyway, here we go: Question of the chapter!
What is your heterosexual (boy/girl) OTP that has neither Glitch nor Miss Aubrey?
In the last chapter where the question was about a boy/boy ship, I said that does not include Glitch. Some of you didn't listen to that last part of the question. I hope that this time you will follow directions.
BONUS ANNOUNCEMENT!
Do you guys want a contest? I was planning on making one but I didn't have the prizes thought out yet. If you guys want a contest or whatever, just tell me with your reviews and your answers to the question of the chapter.
