Prom and Forever Afters

Prom is in an hour and everything that could possibly go wrong is going wrong.

Carolina randomly got the flu three days ago.

None of us know how she got it, heck, she doesn't even know how she got it.

Kayden spontaneously fractured his arm five days ago.

I think Carolina and him bumped each other too hard, if you know what I mean.

And Charlotte is stressing out more than normal.

It's gotten to the point where she's locked herself in the dining room.

She's been acting weird for a few days now.

Whenever her phone rings, she immediately checks it. After reading the notification she either makes a lame excuse as to why she has to leave or she just gets up and leaves.

I've tried to talk to her about it but she just blocks me out.

I'm not the only one that thinks that is weird, right?!

"What the hell is happening?" I yell out in frustration as Kayden walks into the kitchen

I'm so confused.

How did all of this happen in such a short amount of time!

"You're asking the wrong person" he says as he reaches up and takes a cosmic brownie from my snack cabinet. He attempts to open it but ultimately fails since he only has one arm.

"Hey, that's mine!" I yell at him with annoyance but don't take it from him since he's recently been injured

Whatever, I'll just start hiding my snacks.

"Aspen, have some sympathy for us crippled people" Kayden says with an eye roll

Is he serious right now?!

"Incase you haven't noticed I have the same cast" I say as I hold up my three week old cast

I'm so happy that I'm getting it taken off next week.

He glances over at me and sucks his lips into his mouth as he turns his attention back to the, still unopened, cosmic brownie.

"Oh" he says with a tone of realization

"Yeah, oh" I say with an eye roll

I suddenly see someone moving, rather slowly, out the corner of my eye.

I turn my head in the direction of the figure only for my eyes to widen in shock when they land on a lifeless looking Carolina that's leaning against the kitchen door frame.

She looks worse than she did this morning.

She's very pale.

Her messy bun is basically a knot on the top of her head.

Her under eye bags are a grey-ish color.

And she can barely stand on her own two feet.

"Carolina?" I say in shock which causes Kayden to drop his brownie and face her with wide eyes

"Babe, What are you doing?!" He says with a half scolding half soft tone as he makes his way towards her

"I missed you" she rasps out quietly as she slowly closes her eyes

What I've noticed is that Carolina has been way more clingy towards Kayden ever since she's been sick.

Kayden doesn't seem to mind though.

"I missed you too, but you need to stay in bed" he says with a sweet tone as he grabs her hands

"Can you please lay with me? It's boring without you" she says with a tired tone

She kind of looks like she's on the verge of falling asleep right now.

"Of course" he says with a smile before he carefully picks her up and carries her out of the kitchen

Wow.

They're so random.

-

Prom started an hour ago.

I'm currently dressed and ready for prom but Charlotte still won't come out of the dining room.

I wouldn't be so concerned if it wasn't dead silent in there.

I knock on the dining room door for the fifth time in thirty minutes.

"Babe, can you please come out" I ask as I lean against the doorframe

I suddenly hear the doorknob violently jiggle which causes me to jump back in shock. The door swings open to reveal a stressed looking Charlotte.

Her beautiful blonde hair is in a messy bun.

Her gorgeous green eyes are slightly dull but hid behind a pair of reading glasses.

Her lips are very red and swollen which tells me that she's been biting them.

Plus she's slightly biting them right now.

"Hey, are you okay?" I ask her in a worried tone as I place a hand lovingly on her shoulder so that I could get a better look at her face

She looks down at me and smiles.

"Have I ever told you how cute you are?" She says as she wraps her arms around my waist

"Charlotte" I say in a warning tone

"Aspen, please," she says as the smile falls from her face

"I don't want to talk about it" she says

"Fine, but when you are ready I'll be there for you" I say which makes her smile

"Is that a 'Friends' reference?" She questions which causes me to blush

"Maybe," I say as she laughs

"Go get ready you dork, we're already an hour late" I say as I gently push her away from me

"Yes, your highness" she teases as she walks out of the kitchen and up the stairs

I roll my eyes at her as I inwardly laugh.

She's such a goofball, but I hope she's okay.

-

Not too long after Charlotte got dressed in her basic tux, we arrived at our high school where we paid for our tickets and entered our schools prom.

We walked down the main hall before reaching our main gym.

"Wow" I say as I enter the gym and see the beautiful job that the decorating committee did

They replicated an 'under the sea' type of look and it's amazing.

There are blue lights all around the gym which makes it appear a dark blue shade. There are also some various shades of blue balloons all over the gym floor, walls, and ceiling.

They also put out some cardboard cutouts of buried treasure, fishes, and starfishes. Along with streamers and a disco ball.

They went overboard in a good way.

"They did a good job" Charlotte says as we make our way towards an empty table

As soon as we reach the table I go to pull out my chair only for Charlotte to beat me to it. I blush as I thank her and take a seat in the chair.

She quickly sits across from me just as our principal walks on stage.

"Hello, Seawood High students," he greets with a professional tone

"I'm here to announce that the prom queen and prom king drawing will be held soon, so make sure you vote which is being held out in the hallway" he says with an emotionless tone

Charlotte and I both decided that we weren't going to vote for anyone.

Mainly because we don't know anyone on the ballot.

I see some girls and their dates stand up and briefly exit the gym before making their way towards the voting table.

"If you need a quick refreshment or snack the snack table is over there against the wall," he says as he points to the right side of the room where the large snack table is resting

They put a bunch of treats over there.

Like multiple types of wafers, some packs of gummy candy, various types of Oreo cookies, buffalo wings, pepperoni and cheese pizzas, bags of chips, chocolate and vanilla cupcakes, various types of finger sandwiches, various cans of soda, and two punch bowls.

"That's all" he says before he strides off the stage with a stiff posture

The DJ resumes her catchy upbeat music that makes the whole gym vibrate because of how loud the speakers are.

Many couples make their way onto the dance floor and dance as if nobody is watching.

"Do you want to dance?" Charlotte asks me with an amused expression as she notices me staring at the dance floor

Shit, she caught me.

"Yeah" I say as I start to blush from embarrassment since she caught me staring

We stand up and make our way towards the makeshift dance floor.

Once we reach it we just move our bodies around and hope that it resembles dancing.

Because lets be honest, we have no idea how to dance.

-

"Attention boys and girls, I'm here to announce this years prom king and queen" our principal says as if he's in a bad mood

Charlotte and I clap from our table, as well as the whole gym.

We sat down a couple minutes ago after dancing for almost an hour.

I took off my heels because it felt like I was walking on legos. I wasn't the only one though considering the fact that most of the girls put their shoes in the back corner of the gym.

After I took my heels off Charlotte carried me back to our table since she 'didn't trust our schools floors'.

I don't know what she means by that nor do I want to know.

"Seawood High Schools prom king of twenty-twenty is," he says as he grabs an envelope from our schools vice principal

He quickly opens the envelope and takes out the paper before unfolding it and reading it.

"Chad Anderson" our principal calls out which causes a random, dirty blonde haired, dude to stand up and do a complicated handshake with another boy

I'm just going to assume that they're friends.

If I'm being honest he looks like his parents own a popular cruise business.

He quickly walks up onto the stage and stand in the middle. Our assistant principal grabs a big crown from a table and places it on Chad's head.

"Congratulations Chad," our principal says with a sarcastic tone. I try to hold in my laughter which earns an amused look from Charlotte.

"Now, Seawood High Schools prom queen of twenty-twenty is," he says as he looks down at the paper again

"Lexi Carrington" our principal reads off

I see a girl with brown highlighted hair scream out in excitement as she shakes the girl to her right.

I'm also going to assume that they're friends.

If I'm being honest she looks like her parents overly spoil her.

She practically jogs up onto the stage and stands next to Chad.

Our assistant principal picks up the tiara from the table and gently places it on Lexi's head.

She squeals with excitement before gesturing something to her friends.

"Congratulations, Lexi," our principal says with an eye roll

Wow, he's really not in a good mood.

"Have fun everyone" he says monotonously before quickly walking off stage and out of the gym

"Do you know them?" I ask curiously as I turn to Charlotte

She doesn't seem like she knows them, but Charlotte is full of surprises.

She tightens her arms around my waist so that I don't fall out of her lap.

"No, but I do know that they're cousins," she informs as she stares at a random spot on the gym floor where some balloons were popped

"Lexi is a cheerleader while Chad is a football player, he's a running back I think" she says

"Wow, how ironic" I comment with genuine surprise

"Yep" she says as she sits up as places a kiss on my cheek

"I'm starving, let's eat" I claim as I stand up from Charlotte's lap which causes her to laugh.

-

Charlotte and I just ate from the snack table and it was amazing.

If I could eat that for a week straight, I would.

Actually, I probably have ate that for a week straight at one point in my life.

Prom is starting to die down.

Nobody is actually dancing anymore, only dry humping.

Which is kind of uncomfortable to be around.

Some couples are making out at table.

Which is normal and expected.

Some of them already left and went to the hotel down the street.

Pretty convenient, am I right?

"Do you want to get out of here?" I ask Charlotte since I'm not in the mood to throw up all the food I just ate

"Yes, please" she says.

We quickly grab our belongings before exiting the gym and walking to her car.

"You know, I was thinking" I say as we get into her car and buckle our seatbelts

"Oh no, that's never good" she teases which makes me playfully roll my eyes at her

"Anyway, I was thinking about our sex life" I say as she starts the car

"Yeah, it's been pretty much nonexistent since this semester started" she says with a playful eye roll

"Well, since it's a Friday we'll have two days and a couple hours to make up for that" I say as sensually as I can

I honestly have no idea what the hell I'm doing.

"A couple hours?" She questions the last part of my statement

"It's starting as soon as we get home" I say, more like demand, which causes her to pop up with excitement

"Fuck, I love you so much" she states

"I love you too, babe" I say as she continues to drive down the rode.

Yeah, we practically fucked like rabbit for the rest of the weekend.

Actually, we were probably worse than rabbits.

I did have to take a break at one point so that I could gain my energy back.

But all in all, our relationship has been really great and it's only growing stronger.

There's only one thing I can't figure out.

How the hell did I fall in love with my best friend?!

You know what, I don't care.

I'm just glad that I have her.