Ashton, Andrew, Lisa, Jeremy, Maddison and I were seated at one of the tables around the dance floor slash stage, waiting for Mason.

He said he’d be here in about 20 seconds, and it had been a good 8 minutes since them, someone needs to re-teach him time.

After about another 5 minutes, I finally spotted Mason. He was walking through the gate, looking at the arrangements as he made his way here. Then my eyes went down to his hand, and then back up at him.

“Oh no, he didn’t” I said, shaking my head.

“Guys, I think we’re going to have to un-friend Mason, if he is holding what I think he is as his date, then, we cannot be seen around him.” I said.

“What?” Andrew asked me as he followed my gaze and saw Mason.

“Did he really just?” He asked in complete astonishment.

“Yeah, I think he actually did” replied Lisa, equally surprised.

“What is this fuss about, what did he bring alo- are you serious?” Jeremy said wide eyed when his eyes finally landed on Mason’s hands.

“I think he is drunk” Maddison said.

“I think he just ditched me for an inanimate object” said Ashton, sorrowfully.

“I think you already have a real date” I said, reminding him that I was right here.

“Hey guys, check my date out” Mason said grinning at all of us.

I smacked my forehead. It was exactly what I thought it was.

“You did not” Maddison started

“Oh but I did” Mason replied

“How did they even let you in with that thing, didn’t anyone question it?” Lisa voiced out my thoughts.

“Nope, I bought this baby a pass”

“Are you sure you haven’t hit your head sometime earlier?” Jeremy asked.

“Nope, not that I can remember” Mason replied.

“Okay, I need a drink” Jer said, getting up and walking away.

Mason scoffed at that, “He’s just jealous of my hot date”

“You dressed her up! You ditched me, Mase. You cheated on me, you dressed her up and you brought her here. Did you ever think about how I would feel?” Ashton accused Mason.

“I’m sorry bro, and I haven’t technically dressed her up, just gave her a corsage and dumped some glitter on her. She deserves to look pretty you know, she looked pale with all that brown color” Mason replied.

“I think I’m going to go join Jeremy, this is way too much for my brain to handle” Maddison said, excusing herself and joining Jeremy.

“Mason, why are you carrying a pot?” Andrew finally asked the question to which we all wanted to know the answer to.

“I didn’t want to come alone and I didn’t feel like looking for a date, I mean of course I got plenty of offers but I wasn’t in the mood to sit with her all through the night, chicks get pretty boring after a while” He said.

“And this pot won’t?” I asked.

“Nah, she’s lots of fun, look she fits in my arms perfectly, easy to carry, and draws attention like anything!” he said, excitedly.

“I’m sorry but we can’t be friends anymore” I said to him.

“And I’m sorry, you mean nothing to me anymore either, you just broke my heart. Look it’s lying there in the grass, broken and unfixable” Ashton told Mason before storming off.

“I don’t know which one of you has surprised me more right now” Andrew stated after Ashton left.

“I agree with you” said Lisa

“Make it three,” I added.

“I’m going to go patch his heart back up, take good care of my pot please?” Mason said handing me the pot and going after Ashton.

I looked down at Mason’s date.

He had stuck a wooden stick through the mud and glued the corsage to it, so it now looked like a fake flower with pearls and glitter. Oh yeah and he had sprinkled glitter all over and around the pot too.

I waited for Mason, Ashton, Jeremy and Maddison to come back.

We were now all there, Andy had walked in too, and he was helping the deejay with something.

Mason sat beside the pot. Yes, the pot was actually sitting on a separate chair all for itself. Then Ashton beside the pot, who claimed to make sure Mason doesn’t do any funny business with, then I, beside me was Andrew, beside him Maddison and then there was Lisa and Jeremy.

Jeremy was trying to hit the stick off of the pot while Mason kept slapping his hands away and abusing him.

We were all 17 here, except Andrew; we would be turning into adults this year. Is that believable?

Of course not.

We sat and chatted about the most amazing year we’ve had since the trip. All the crazy things we’ve done in all the past years. How we’ve gotten so close over the past year. It was the most memorable year for sure.

“Hey, remember in Miami when Diana stole the puppy?!” Mason asked everyone, laughing.

I laughed, “I did not steal it!”

“Yes, you just nicely put him in your purse!” everyone said in union.

I blushed at that, it was very foolish of me, but I can’t be blamed. All the blame goes on the alcohol.

“And, and, and remember when the coconut hit Jeremy’s head!” Lisa said.

“He still gives me hard time for that!” I said, implausibly.

“I could have died!” Jer said, trying very hard to defend himself.

We chatted on for another hour, brining up incidents one by one. They went all the way from the pizza parlor to Ashton and I being so in love.

It was incredible how much I loved the people surrounding me. They were my family now, and they were all I had, just like you leave family and move away for college, I will leave these guys and go off to college. But I know when I come back; they will be the same as ever. Just as you come back to your family for thanksgiving and Christmas breaks, I know I will come back to these guys for those occasions. And just like family does, they will come back to me too.

It will be a forever kind of thing.

I already know it.

“Let’s go dance?” Ashton asked, leaning in towards me.

My arm was wrapped around his, and I was resting my head on his shoulder. He kissed my forehead and my eyes fluttered close.

It just felt so nice.

“Yeah, let’s go” I said, pecking his cheek.

“We’re going to go dance, anyone joining us?” Ashton asked as he pulled the chair behind so I could have space to get up.

The rest of the table got up and joined us.

We made our way up to the dance floor, the deejay was jamming loud music and we sank right into the crown, mixing and meeting our fellow classmates.

I spotted Samantha and Lucy with Austin one time too, we chatted for a bit and danced.

It had been 2 hours since we’d come up on stage, my legs were ready to fall off, but I was enjoying so much that I didn’t care. Ashton was beside me at one point, and then there was Mason. We jammed through all the crazy songs, all from different times. At one point they even played summer of 69 and YMCA, that’s when a lot of the crowd joined in. The place was packed. Bodies were jumping up and down, moving from side to side, screaming their lungs out and voicing out the lyrics

Everyone was smiling, enjoying, and having a great time.

There was no drama, no bitches, no people pushing one another, no cat fights, no one was on their phone, and no one was crammed into a corner alone.

This is what high school should be- students having the most memorable time of their lives.

The deejay made an announcement and switched to slow songs.

Ashton immediately found me, and wrapped me around in his arms. There were couples everywhere now, not dating, but best friends, or only one night dates, or two random people who wanted someone to dance with.

My arms laced around Ashton’s neck, and he pulled me closer towards him with his arms that were locked around my waist. I closed my eyes as his forehead bent down to meet with mine. Our foreheads were touching, and it was nothing sexual but it felt so intimate.

I breathed in and out a couple times, silencing my racing heart.

My ears were aware of the lyrics but I couldn’t make them out, I was lost, lost in a world where nothing made sense except for the guy in front of me.

“I love you,”

Three simple words left his lips and my eyes rolled further into their sockets.

I pulled away and crushed myself into his chest. This was too much, too much to take in.

This felt surreal.

“I love you,” I replied with the same intensity of voice.

He kissed the side of my neck since he really didn’t have access to anything else. His hands played with my hair and we just swayed there in the middle of a crowded dance floor. Not caring about anyone else.

The song changed, and Ashton pushed me back a little. He took one hand from around his shoulder and held on to it, then placed his other arm on my waist. That didn’t help my thoughts either. We just swayed from left to right.

“You look beautiful, tonight”

“Why thank you, it says a lot coming from the greek god himself” I said, smirking.

He laughed, throwing his head back.

“It feels so good when your girlfriend calls you a greek god, you know you’re doing wonders to my ego right now, right?” he said, his blue eyes meeting with my brown ones.

“Yeah” I said, dreamily staring into those gorgeous pair of eyes.

He quickly pecked my lips. “Sorry I couldn’t resist.”

I blushed, “its okay, my lips don’t mind”

“Oh by the way, I forgot one thing, Mel is right behind you, and I thought you might want to thank her. The dress is from her, I got it designed from her. Her mom is some big designer and she said she’d love to try and come up with a good design, she said that was the least she could do for all the pain she’s put you through. That is why I met up with her, and she also said that it would show her mom that she can do something wonderful as well. The day you saw us in the park, that big bag had your dress in it. I asked her to do it because I felt like she needed this opportunity” Ashton said.

I was taken aback, completely.

Wow, that was incredibly sweet of her! And, the dress was indeed amazing.

I kissed Ashton’s cheek, “You did the right thing, love, I’ll go thank her, she has done an amazing job after all”

I spotted Mel once I left Ashton, “Hi,” I said when I found her standing on the sides of the stage.

“Hi, you look gorgeous” Mel replied.

“Why thank you, it’s all your hard work anyways, I would have spoken to you earlier, but Ashton just told me about this, thank you so much, you’ve done a splendid job with this dress.”

She let out a smile, “No problem, it was the least I could do, I’m glad you liked it.”

I reached out and hugged her, “I’m sorry too, thanks a lot”

She hugged me back, “You’re an amazing person Diana, I see now what Ashton sees in you”

I turned a little pink at that.

When I returned back to where I left Ashton, he wasn’t there.

“He’s dancing with Maddison, mind joining me for this one?” Jeremy said offering me his hand.

“Of course not” I said smiling, linking my fingers with his.

He put his hands on my waist, while I placed mine on his shoulder.

“Having a good time?” he asked.

“The best,”

He chuckled, “you’re so cheesy when it comes to stuff like this”

“Deal with it” I said, winking.

“I am.”

After that none of us uttered a word. I knew what this dance meant for him, and I didn’t mind. He was my best friend, I loved him, and I couldn’t say no to him. I couldn’t even ask him if he was ok, but knowing Jer, he wouldn’t even be thinking about it.

The song ended, and Jer pulled away.

“Thank you,”

“That’s too formal Jer, don’t be that way,” I pouted.

He broke a smile for me. He kissed my cheek, “Thanks”

I laughed and pulled him into a hug, “No thank you, I would be dance partner less if it wasn’t for you”

“My pleasure,”

After Jer left I danced with Mason and Andrew too. Mason almost tripped me, because he stepped on my leg twice. Not because he was a bad dancer because he thought someone stole his pot-date.

Then they started playing EDM again, and the floor was swamped with people jumping and giggling and doing random dance steps.

The dance was finally over; the king and queen were crowned.

Ashton and Lucy one prom king and queen, they danced and then everything was over.

None of us were hungry because we’d all ate while dancing for those 5 hours.

Yes, 5 hours.

We all made our way back to my place; everyone was crashing here today for two reasons.

1: my house was the only parentless house, and they’d all get to eat yummy breakfast cooked by Lils.

2: they all had to help Andrew and I move all his stuff from his house to mine and set it up.

We all changed, said our goodnights and fell right into bed.

The next morning, I woke up around 11am; I brushed my teeth, washed the sleep from my face and went over to Lily’s. Ashton wasn’t beside me when I woke up, and I didn’t bother to check the other rooms. I knew that as soon as someone got up, they’d head straight to Lily’s for a nice breakfast.

Everyone was there, which means I was the last one to wake up.

Even Jeremy and Mason managed to wake up before me.

“Mornin’ sweetie, go catch a seat, I’ll be out with waffles and coffee in just 3 minutes.” Lily greeted me as I passed her.

“Thanks Lils love ya” I shouted so she could hear me inside.

Then I took a seat beside Mason and drummed on the table waiting for my plate of goods to arrive.

Lily came out with a mug and a plate in her hand; she set it in front of me.

Mason passed me the bottle of syrup, and I dug in. We didn’t speak much; everyone was too engrossed in their food to talk. Lisa and Maddison kept dropping stuff everywhere, Mason managed to break his plate, Jeremy continued to drown his omelets in ketchup and Ashton was looking for his spoon which was in his mouth, by the way.

This was so normal for me; I didn’t question anything going on there.

Once we were done with breakfast we thanked Lily and left for Andrew’s. Alana was ready with all the boxes there, she helped us load a couple into the car and we made our way back to my house.

“Oh my gods, what the fuck is this, why is this so heavy? Do you have rocks in this thing or what?” I yelled at Andrew as I helped carry one of the heaviest boxes in the world.

“Oh, those are just my books, put them in the side for now, I’ll have to sort through them later”

I rolled my eyes; I can’t believe I carried this thing all the way into the house only to be told it wasn’t needed at the moment.

The entire day, all of us spent moving things here and there, creating space for Andrew and boxing up the unwanted things and dumping them in the basement storage.

At 7pm, we were beat.

I was lying on the floor, a pillow tucked under my head, my arms thrown over my head. Everyone was scattered across the living room. Mason was upside down on his chair, his hands covering his eyes, Ashton was lying on his stomach with his faced buried in one of the living room pillows- his torso half on the couch and the other half in the air, his position was supported my his legs that were leveled on the center table- Jeremy was sitting on the floor, his back resting on the couch’s bottom area, Maddison was somewhere on the floor just like me, Andrew was sitting on the couch, his legs stretched out to the center table and Lisa was lying on top of Andrew and Ashton, her head was on Ashton’s back and her legs were on Andrew’s.

Don’t ask me how we got to this.

Just don’t.

“Oh my god, I am so tired, I don’t have the energy to order or even eat food” Mason groaned.

“I feel you bro, I can’t move” Jeremy whined.

“I think I am dead,” Ashton said.

“Can someone pass me the phone? I am really hungry, get me some food!” I said to no one in particular.

“The phone is on the center table, whoever is close to it, please call up someone and get some food” Maddison said.

“Sorry, I am in the process of dying, if I move, death will come eat me” Lisa replied.

“I can’t move my hands till the phone” Jeremy said, who was in fact the closest to the table.

“I would move, but Lisa is on top of me, Jer please make sure you don’t move the table when you get the phone, I might fall and break my stomach” Ashton said.

“You can’t break your stomach,” Andrew replied to Ashton’s dumb comment.

“Yes, but I can’t function my brain right now, so excuse me”

“You’re excused” Mason replied instead.

Jeremy finally moved a little and took hold of the phone, he ordered 8 pizza’s for us, all large. I think we would manage to fall short of that too.

He placed the order with Ashton’s address because none of us had the energy to go open the door if the delivery guy came in.

Jer then fell back into his original position.

After 20 minutes, the phone rang.

“Answer it, please” Andrew groaned.

No one replied.

“Seriously, Jer, get up and answer the damn thing” Andrew said again when no one said a word or made a move to pick the call up.

“I hate you, you may go rot in hell” Jeremy said to Andrew before picking up the call.

“Oh hi Lily, yes, yes that was us…yes…we ordered them all…because…sorry…yes…no, we did it because we were too tired to open the door…yes…please…please Lily could you please come give it inside?” and the call ended.

“Is she coming?” I asked.

“I don’t know, we’ll find out in a while” Jeremy said.

After 2 minutes, Lily let herself inside and slammed the boxes of pizzas on the table. She then stormed to the living room and yelled at all of us.

“Get you lazy butts of the couch, don’t pull this kind of stunt with me next time or I’ll make you run a marathon when you’re this tired.”

She pulled each and every one of us from our ears.

Mason was the last.

“Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ok, damn, I am moving! Sorry! God, help me take her away!” he cried out in pain as Lily dragged him over to where the rest of us were.

Lily left us at the table and made her way back to her house.

“Let’s all crash here today as well” Mason said.

“I think I won’t move from this very chair for the rest of the night” Ashton admitted.

We all hogged on all the food hungrily, and yes, we managed to finish all 8 pizzas.

I put my head on the table and closed my eyes for a bit, and then blanked out.

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