Eridan cautiously put his arms around the weeping girl. "Hey don't cry, it w-will be alright, it's just one night after all." He tried to soothe her but to no avail. "No, this was supposed to be my perfect night with the perfect boy and everything was going perfect till now." She sobbed. Eridan rubbed her back slowly thinking it over. He looked at her realizing how pretty she looked in the light of the street lamp. Her hair was gorgeous and her dress fit her perfectly. She's beautiful, he thought.
"W-well" he started, "if your lookin' for a less than perfect night w-with a less than perfect boy, I'd be happy to oblige." He stammered looking up at the sky. Aradia giggled, to his surprise he felt the rejection coming. "Actually that would be lovely Eridan." She looked at him with a sad smile on her face blushing, and wiping away tears.
"Alright w-well prom is goin to be mostly ov-ver by now-w... You sure you don't w-wanna just skip and go back to my place?" He asked caution ringing in his tone.
Aradia thought it over, she didn't want to go to prom anyway, why not go hang out with eridan? He was very nicely dressed after all. He had on a deep purple suit and a cape to match, the cape had a gold chain binding it to keep it from falling off. Along with assorted rings on his fingers that was usual however, she wondered if they had meant anything.
She nodded, "That sound nice." She said smiling. Eridan stood offering his hand to her. Aradia accepted and stood, "so which way is your place?" She knew it had to be close by since most of her childhood friends practically lived on the same street and still did. "End of the street." He replied keeping his eyes forward. "Okay, by the way what brought you over here?" She asked. "Oh w-well you know-w I kinda didn't hav-ve a date so I w-went back an forth on goin an not an i finally decided to go so I w-was w-walkin ov-ver an I saw-w you an that w-was that I suppose." He said.
"We'll that's a happy coincidence." She smiled. They walked the rest of the way in an awkward silence, neither of them really looking at each other but their hands swung as they walked. Aradia thought nothing of it, and just kept walking. Eridan quite enjoyed her hand in his, he hadn't had anyone touch him in a while not since feferi had stopped hanging out with him in middle school. What a painful backstory that was, he wanted to finally become more than friends with her and she didn't even want to be friends with him anymore. They walked up the walkway in an awkward silence and he opened the door letting her in first. "W-well this is it." He breathed.