"PROM ENTERTAINERS WANTED. AUDITIONS HELD DURING LUNCH AT THE CAFETERIA!" A flyer in the hallway read.
"What is prom?" Asked Baron. Stella looked up at him.
"It's one of the biggest dances of the year. Also the highlight of our high school career. We get expensive dresses and tuxedos just party all night."
"Sounds like a regular ball."
"Pretty much. Except people are aren't proper and stuck up." She gave him a look, indicating he was like that. He didn't see. "I'm gonna try out." She continued.
" I remember when we were kids you were always singing songs. You would always sing in front of me off key on purpose.", he said
Stella smiled. "I know you threw a tomato at me to get me to shut up and I chased you around the academy." He looked at her and returned the smile.
"You never got me back." He received a punch in the arm
"Yes I did! That night I threw half my fou fou at your face."
"Then I threw mine at yours."
"And the commander had us run for two hours straight!" They both said then laughed. Baron's heart skipped a beat at her laugh. He wanted to kiss those lips that broke out into a smile. He leaned in again hoping not to get rejected.
Of course he did. Stella started to walk away.
"I miss that Baron. The one I could talk to and wasn't out to kill."
He started to walk with her to the lunch room.
"I'm still that Baron. You don't understand." She stopped in front of the door and looked at him dead in the eyes.
"The Baron I knew wouldn't kill people for his advantage." With that she opened the door and what she saw made her stand still in her tracks. Baron as well.
There on the stage in the middle of the cafeteria, was Katy.