It’s official: I’m freaking out now.
But he can probably get a room somewhere else. I hear the W is really nice. I just can’t believe he hasn’t asked you! What’swrong with him? This just isn’t like him, you know. Is everything all right between you two? You didn’t have a fight or anything, did you?
I seriously can’t believe this is happening. This isway too weird.
Should I tell her?
I can’t tell her. Can I?
…No.
No, no fight. There’s just been a lot of stuff going on with finals coming up and our projects and graduation and the election and my birthday and all. I think he really just forgot. And didn’t you read my earlier text, Tina? I DON’T WANT TO GO TO THE PROM.
Don’t be silly, of course you do. Who doesn’t want to go to her senior prom? And why didn’tyou askhim ? This isn’t the 1800s. Girls can ask guys to the prom, you know. I know it’s not the same, but you two have been going out for, like, forever! You’re a little more than just friends, even if you still haven’t…well,you know …yet. I mean…you haven’t…have you?
Awwww…she still calls itYou Know ! That’s so cute I could die.
Still. Tina brings up some good points. Whydidn’t I ask him? When the ads for the prom started appearing in theAtom , why didn’t I clip one out and stick it on J.P.’s locker door withAre we going to this? written on it?
Why didn’t I just ask him, point-blank, if we were going to the prom, when everybody else was talking about it at lunch? It’s true J.P.’s been distracted with his play and Stacey Cheeseman sucking so majorly in it (it would probably help if he weren’t always rewriting it and giving her new lines to memorize).
I easily could have gotten a yes or no answer out of him.