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After 3 months, when May finally approached, my school had finally hosted a prom dance for us.

The bell rang, we all split up and went to class. I walked pass Shinazugawa at the hallway, I blushed a little bit. He didn't see me so I just looked down and kept walking.

Class ended, it was 4:30 noon. Me and my girl friends were packing up our bags, ready to head to the hallway to go home

"Gabrielle, you should ask your little boyfriend if he wants to go to prom with you?" - One of them said sarcastically.

"Pffft no, I'm good thanks. We're just friends." - I shrugged it off.

"Or is ittttt? Hahaha I saw the way you guys looked into one another's eyes at lunch time. Ahhh! So cute!" - Kura laughed at me.

All of my friends was joking about how I should invite Sanemi to go prom with me. I denied them saying that we were just best friends.

But it looked like they could already see it coming. I never told any of them that I had a big fat crush on him though.

"Come on Gabby, it's just a prom date. If it goes well you guys can take it a step further." - Kura giggled.

"Alrighty, I will gather all my courage to do this."

"So you do like him?"

"No! Just shut up, okay?"

I stayed at the school library for 1 more hour to look for the book I needed.

That's when I ran into Iguro, one of Sanemi's close friends at the time.

"Oi oi, Sanemi's girlfriend, isn't it?" - He waved.

"Iguro! What's up? Oh and, I am NOT Sanemi's girlfriend, for fuck's sake!" - I hissed quietly.

"Ey chill out, no need to be so harsh."

"What are you doing here anyway? I thought your ass didn't like studying and books and stuffs?"

"I went in here because, um see that girl over there? The one with pink and green braids. I have a crush on her for a long time now. She's so cute, what do I do?"

"Mitsuri? Dude, she's one of our girls. Why didn't you tell me that sooner? She keeps babbling about a guy with black hair and wears striped jacket that she likes in our grade like dadadalala. It was you the whole time huh ?"

"Woah. I was about to ask her to prom anyway."

"She had a big fat crush on you." - I gave him a wink.

He laughed wickedly.

"She likes chavs like you."

"Nah you're annoying Gab, this library is annoying too. Why do I have to speak quietly all the time, dammit!"

"No, you're the problem here."

"I'm gonna go talk to her."

"Yeah, do what you need to do. Anyways, I got my book so I'm gonna head home now, otherwise my mom is going to be so mad."

"Aight bye, catch you later."

"Bye Iguro, I will see you and your little date at prom I guess." - I teased.

I got out of the library and walked all the way to my house.

*buzz buzz*

It's my phone.

"Hey, wanna come over to my house and have dinner ?" - Read the text.

It was from Sanemi. My heart skipped a beat.

Sanemi invited me to come over his place and play video games.

I was focusing on the game until he started speaking, breaking the silence in the room filled with video games sound effects.

"Hey Gabrielle, do you want to be my prom date?" - He turned his head my direction.

"Yes?" - I looked at him surprisingly, my face was ready to turn red like a tomato.

I thought my ears were deceiving me. My heart was beating and pounding at a fast pace but I tried to act cool and kept a calm face.

"I said do you wanna go to prom with me?"

"Of course I can go with you, uh I guess." - I answered.

"Yeah sure, I will pick you up that day."

"M'kay. What are you gonna wear?"

"A normal tuxedo, I guess? Never wore any of these. Why do you ask ?"

"Oh, I'm just making sure that we're gonna match."

"Okay." - He smiled.

My inner self was screeching and screaming because I was extremely excited.

I calmed myself down and we continued playing our games.

"What are you gonna wear?" - He asked.

"I don't know, I'm not sure what colour with be suitable with my hair at the moment."

"I'd like to see you in a black dress, I'm sure that you're gonna look so pretty." - He whispered in response.

"I will consider wearing that."

Finally, I've been waiting the whole week for this day. It's Friday. I chose a black dress because my mum told me that I looked tall and pretty in it, also because Sanemi said the same thing.

I did my makeup, it was really bad, I didn't know how to draw my eyeliner or using eyeshadow so the only thing that I used is blusher and lipgloss. I couldn't believe I even pulled that off.

I heard a car honking in our front yard, Shinazugawa was there with his dad driving us to the ball.

"Hey Gabrielle, you look really pretty tonight. I got you roses." - He said while looking into my eyes. I got so shy that I had to looked down and blushed myself.

"Thank you so much Nemi, I really appreciate it oh my goodness. It smells great!" - I smiled at him.

After we arrived his dad dropped us off at the ball, the whole school was there, every girl there was in pink and white dress, pretty much the same things but they all looked so pretty so I got nervous.

"Gabrielle, dance with me princess, we can do the tango just for two." - Sanemi proposed.

My heart wants to jump out.

"Sure, let's go." - I took his hand and head over to the dance floor.

He pulled me into his embrace, I could feel his temperature again my body, he made me sway, I was completely his that night, he made me the happiest girl at the dance.

I didn't get elected to be the prom queen but he treated me like I was one, a real queen. I felt like I was closer to him than ever.

His dad and him took me back to my house and stayed over for dinner cause my mom already prepared food for five people to repay the favour.

"These kids are so adorable Mr. Shinazugawa."

"I agree, my wife and I joke about how they are like a cheesy teenage couple all the time." - His dad laughed and continued talking to my parents.

"Dad stop, you're embarrassing me." - He whispered underneath his breath. I just looked down to my food and flushed.

I was having the happiest time of my life at the dance. I'm pretty sure that I felt like I was on cloud nine. And I decided to wrote the whole thing in my diary.

I would never want to forget about that night. So that I spent the whole night, writing every detail carefully in the book. About how he made me feel, and how much I loved him.

"Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Dear diary, today I got to go to prom with the boy I've been in love with for a long time, he asked me to be his prom date on a Friday night while we were at his place. My heart skipped a beat when he asked me so. He picked me up in his dad's car tonight. He told me I looked pretty in my little black dress. He got my roses! I couldn't be more nervous while I sat next to him during the drive to the ball as butterflies flustered inside my stomach..." - I wrote, along with three other pages about how happy and joyful I was. My writing skills wasn't good back then so I just tended to write how I felt and how I thought.

I drifted off smiling to sleep with the thought of him stuck in my head. I dreamt about us getting married once we turns 20 that same exact night.

I woke up and tried to remember as much details as possible about the beautiful dream and wrote everything I could remember in my diary.

I continued living the best life of a teenager with flying-colour grades and an in-between situationship with Sanemi.

Until one day,

I didn't know everything would take a big turn afterwards.

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To be continued...