Prom Date

(The Morning After)
Waking up I moved a little but then I felt his arms around me while I realized that it was morning and that whole night before. That Charles helped me forget everything going on while I started to see that Charles and I might have something more then we could ever admit. Since it was the weekend and my mom didn't care too much I wanted to stay but being at home wasn't a place I wanted to be. But then he moved around a little bit,
"Uh." and he stretched out his arms but then put them back around me, "you okay?"
"Yeah I'm okay."
"You had fun?" I looked at him and smiled
"Lots." and he held me in his arms.
"To think, just days before we were just friends."
(Days Before)
I'm Tracey Philips and this is my last year of high school and its going along well school wise but then outside of school that's a place no one knows except me and my friend Charles. Now me and Charles have been friends since middle school and this little boy is the cockiest thing ever he's tall, light-skinned but he's smart which is a part of him that he takes for granted when it comes to school. He's popular with the girls and he knows it but he has a type and with them girl its boobies. This boys is wild for boobies he is a fend I mean like wow. His type is has something he can hold in his hands I mean he will say something when I call him out about it. I mean in middle school everybody was so determined on putting us together and making sure we were alone so.
(Middle School)
"Tracey I got an idea." we were in P.E walking around drifting away from the many kids that were calling us the perfect couple and everything I mean 7th graders in this school were so determined on that.
"I will have anything I mean I'm starting to get sick of this."
"Why don't we fake it for them and we'll be the couple they want until they are sick of us?"
"Are you crazy?"
"Think about it come on they won't leave us alone until we go out and make them think were actually together." then I started to think about it, "she's coming to it and then light bulb."
"Shut up." I pushed him, "fine I guess it wouldn't hurt." that's what I thought but we made that fake relationship last till 8th grade of the last month of middle school. I was wearing his jacket while we were sharing food and by this time I started to believe in it. Sitting at the table where most of the couples sat they said,
"Tracey, Charles are you guys gonna join us at the beach party tonight?"
"Of course." Charles said,
"But baby I thought we were gonna just hang out together cause our days is coming up." and he put his arm around me while he lifted my chin,
"I have plans for us I mean we'll walk on the beach." he lifted me on his lap wrapping his arms around my body, "watch the stars, swim together, and then I could give you a picnic cause I know what you like."
"AAWWWWWWWW!" they all said. And with everything going on I believed that I had really started to fall for him and it was hard. But getting home my mom was drinking like usually but she was still getting money from my dad, the government, and her many men. I was getting ready while I found a swim suit that I picked out with Charles when we went to the mall one day. When I put my dress on over it I grabbed my sandals but then she started to have a drunk rampage and she started breaking things,
"MOM WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?"
"I'M YOUR MOTHER DON'T FUSS AT ME." she turned on me with it and we started fussing while things soon turned bad,
"JUST GO BACK TO ONE OF YOUR MANY MEN THAT'S WHAT YOUR BEST AT." and she punched me across the face. When I turned my face back to her she changed,
"Tracey I'm sorry I didn't." when she put her hand out to me I moved away from it,
"I hope you catch AIDS and die you crazy bitch." and then I opened the door and that's when I saw Charles but I ran past him going to my house. Now the couple who used to live there were like my other family and they may have moved away but they still paid for everything else because they were undercover millionaires so I had went there. When I heard the door open I knew it was Charles cause he was the only one with a key,
"TRACEY WHERE ARE YOU?!" he yelled from downstairs,
"GO AWAY!"
"TRACEY YOU KNOW I CAN'T GO THAT!" so then I just started to cover my face with the makeup I bought from my last encounter of a hit to the face. After I was done I heard a knock on the door, "did you put ice on it?"
"Does it matter?" and then he came up behind me while he grabbed my hand, "get off me and leave me alone."
"No." and then we were struggling for a while but then he got me over his shoulder throwing me in the room on the floor. But then out of anger I got up and punched him in the face.
"Get the fuck away from me." and I kept hitting him until he tripped me while he ended on top of me while he held my wrists beside my head,
"Calm down."
"No get off me." and we went through that until I got tired,
"Tracey just calm down." and I just put my head down and just cried while he let me go and I covered my face while I felt him get up. "She wants you to go back home."
"Whatever."
"She loves you."
"She needs me." I said to him,
"Tracey."
"Stop acting like you understand this." I leaned up and just started going but then he just held me in his arms so I just cried and his grip just held me in place while I realized it pushing him. "We can't fake this relationship anymore just go to the beach by yourself." I got up and went to the door, "don't forget to lock yourself out." and I left. After that day people figured out that 'we broke up' and for a while I had just tried to distance myself from him but he would always appear again.
(Now)
Thinking back to that day it was something I remembered but from then to now he had some girlfriends and he's had his work and job going on. While he toned down his smarts and put work up as his priority. But now things are a little different maybe a little too different.
Being that Prom was coming up they all the seniors do this quiz on who your dates going to be now at first Charles didn't wanna go but then I dared him to go we made a bet that I wouldn't go to school and kiss the first guy that hugged me and I did. So he put his money in while he took the quiz while our dates were given to us and we were gonna meet them at the prom because it was a ball while we wore masks. The guys would go in first while the girls would go in after a while to get our numbers for the numbers the guys had. Being that Charles and I were cool and he didn't have a girlfriend at the moment so we went Prom shopping. It was nice to be with him but I was comfortable inside of our friendship and that my feelings had died back in high school. Being it was the last year I already had my license and my mom gave me 10% of the money she got from everything I was driving him to work and everything it was cool. I would handle all my school work and everything on my own and all the things I had going on Charles would push outta me. So being that Prom was that night and then suddenly a guy had ended up at the door and my mom was just sitting there,
"My mom's bedroom is in the back and."
"Tracey." my mom interrupted, "He's not here for that." and she stood up, "Tracey this is your father and he wants to drive you to Prom." I looked at him and circled him.
"Why are you really here?"
"I wanted to see my daughter." he opened his arms for me while I looked at his arms and laughed.
"You must think I'm stupid I know exactly who you are and you know exactly what you want." I went back to my stuff, "yeah I know exactly who you are big business owner that crashed and you were looking for a free ride because your new wife kicked you out. And you." I looked at my mom, "what you think I don't know your getting old as dirt and you can't give it out as much so you decided on giving him a call and ironically his divorce just cleared and he no longer has enough money to give so they were gonna take it from you but if you two had got marriage then the money would change and become higher isn't that right." and they both looked at me, "Yeah I'm not stupid." I got to the door while I turned back to them, "I hope you enjoy it while you can cause I have another back account, a house of my own, and since I don't live here anymore you lose one side of your money much faster." I closed the door behind me. I had my dress and everything but I had to take the rest of my stuff back to the house so I dropped off my stuff and parked my car away from the hotel. The walk would help me get myself together so then going on and getting everything together I had went through the doors finding the place. Getting in the place I put on my mask while I had found my girls and we had all went in together and when I had found my guy I looked at him and realized,
"Tracey?"
"Charles?" I took off my mask, "you're my gentleman."
"You're my date now this is some movie shit."
"No this was ridged." and I turned around about to talk to the people but then he grabbed my hand,
"Come on it's not like you would of got a date to the Prom anyway."
"Whatever I bet I could have more fun then you in this thing come on." and the music came on and everybody was having fun even us. Some the fast music stopped while something slow came on and everybody was pairing up. Looking around he kept his eyes on me, "come on we should sit down." and I turned to leave but then he grabbed my hand,
"What you scared I'm gonna bite you?"
"No it's just this is a slow song for couples and were not a couple."
"They're not couples either so what it's just one song." and when I got in his arms I never left them. We were just inseparable after that it was just me and him the whole time but it was one song that he was a little bit extra he was singing to me and rocking with me. When I looked at him and something inside of me felt everything I felt back in middle school. He had been my friend since the beginning and he had known me for who I really was instead of anything else and I think he felt it too. It was just what were we gonna do with those feelings how was it gonna be handled,
"This isn't too bad." I said trying to find my words.
"Yeah." he while he put his hand on my cheek. Putting my face into his face was something I've always thought of doing for a while but then soon he had came closer to my face and kissed me. The kiss was something else but I had moved away from him and I had put my head back in his chest I didn't what to think about the kiss because it was perfect and I couldn't believe it was like that when I've never kissed him any time other then now. So then Prom ended like that and we were walking together so he walked me to my car,
"Well that was something now to think before this was well." I put my head down but he lifted my head up,
"Tracey you know how I do." and instead of talking I just kissed him. I backed up smiling,
"Good night." and before he could say anything I got in my car and drove off. Getting into the driveway I had took off my shoes and went into my house by myself while I had went up to my room but then there was a knock on the door and I had ran down to answer it but before I could open it the door opened itself. Looking me down was Charles, "what are you doing here?" but instead of saying anything instead he came up to me and he had kissed me holding my face in his hands the kiss became something bigger and something that had took me away. When he picked me up he had carried me up the stairs throwing me on the bed while he had took off his shoes while he had came back down kissing me more he pulled the dress off my showing off the red set I had on while he had just looked me down,
"Damn." he bit his lips while I leaned up kissing him while I had turned him over getting on top of him while I had got off the bed looking at him,
"Take your clothes off." and he stood in front of me slipped out of his jacket and vest while he took off his pants,
"You should help me with this." and I stepped towards him while he had pushed me to the wall, "get wild for me." I smiled feeling the heat increase inside of me I had ripped the buttons apart while I had started to kiss his neck. I jumped on him straddling his waist while his hands traveled up my back. And he banged me back into the wall I held onto him tighter while he had slammed me on the bed. So he started biting my neck pulling me in deeper while the night had went on  through the lust, the emotions, and the many things we had been holding in since middle school. All the built up everything was let out that night in that room while he had held me in his arms with my head on his chest while his arms were wrapped around me. And that night was ended in his arms while the morning was the only fear from then.
*That Morning
"We were friends a couple days ago and now what are we?" I asked questioning everything inside of my head while I had got up out of the bed.
"Tracey wait please don't make this something bigger than anything it coulda been." he had got up grabbing my arms, "Tracey look at me." but then I had got out of his arms,
"Why did you come back?"
"Because you didn't just kiss me the other night you felt something just like you felt it in middle school."
"Don't say that you never said anything, you never tried to help me, and still now you keep things different you moved on to other people and everything and you defiantly weren't thinking about me when you were with Lily what about that huh."
"Don't even go there with me you know I didn't get with her until months after you got with Derrick what about you and him?"
"But you didn't love me like he did?"
"I never stopped loving you Tracey." and when he had said that I had just looked at him. "Its just there's never been any time for me to say it because I never I didn't know how, when or anything that's why I gave you the necklace and you never stopped wearing it until the fight." I had just looked at him, "you didn't believe me that day and we didn't talk until a month later."
"I don't wanna think about that."
"No you're the one who started this now were gonna finish it why did you constantly wear the necklace huh?" and then when I thought about it after I stopped wearing the necklace that was when him and Lily got together. Things added up every time we had got into an argument from the many times I had went back to Derrick and his last girlfriend were kinda close but then when I beat her face in for trying to call me out. But then she had punched him in the face when they broke up I mean that was when she tried to call me out after she had punched him I had turned her towards me and when she had called me out she was talking about him, "I told her how much I felt about you that day because she wanted me to tell her why I didn't love her because I was already in love with you." he let me go while he had sat on the bed, "After everything I've done I just." then something in me just snapped,
"Stop it just stop It." and he looked up at me, "Why didn't you stop me those years ago?" and he was about to say something but I went on, "Why did you hold me that day? Why didn't you just come out and say you actually wanted to be with me instead of making up some stupid crap about a fake relationship because it wasn't fake to me." and he got up and he held me in his arms. So I cried but then a memory came in my head while I had pushed him off of me, "Get out." and I had turned my back on him. I had heard the steps he took but then the steps stopped while I heard,
"No fuck no; I'm not going any fucking where you're doing the same thing years ago."
"And then what." I turned towards him, "What's different now?"
"You admitted that you love me."
"I never said that."
"You said it last night in your sleep."
"I was sleep I've never said it while I was awake."
"Well then say it."
"You say it."
"You already know I love you but I need you to say it."
"I don't love you." I stated to him,
"I don't believe you." and he came towards me and stood in front of me, "You love me and I know you do and don't you dare lie to me."
"Then be honest then huh, what was one of the slow songs we were dancing to the other night?"
"It was 'Power Trip' that was the song I sang to you."
"What movie was it that we watched together when Richard forgot about me?"
"Silver Lining Playbook' and it was the day after your birthday. Tracey what is this gonna prove huh what is this about me knowing everything gonna work huh?" Looking at him I couldn't believe he remember all those stuff after that long but then he came closer looking me deep in my eyes holding onto my body lifting my head up to his,
"I can't be in love with you."
"Why?" he pulled in closer,
"Because of everything we've said to each other, everything that has happened between us, what's stopping you from leaving me now?"
"I never left you."
"But you never stayed close." I stated pushing him off me but he just grabbed my arms looking in my eyes,
"You never let me." I started struggling in his arms,
"If I have to tell you when you come then this isn't even close to working." Then I slammed him into the wall when he lifted me off my feet into the wall,
"You know I love you but why are you not even thinking about my feeling."
"Fuck your feelings." That's when he put me down, grabbed his clothes, and walked to the door, "If you're leaving then leave the key." But he didn't turn around or anything he just left. We didn't talk for a couple months but found out he was headed to the military so I just put it in my head that he just wanted to taste the waters and leave so I tried to forget about him. I was living alone in the house to a puppy and I was about to go for a walk but then opening the door Charles was standing there,
"Long time no see." But the only thing I thought about was the last time we saw each other and about how he was a couple months from leaving,
"What are you doing here?" then my puppy got passed me while Charles picked him up.
"You think we could talk?" everything in my body wanted me to make sure that I knew what I was doing but I didn't. I wasn't even close to knowing what I wanted so I guess this is where I close to knowing he's here but not if I'm ready. To knowing that maybe he cares more than he's showed but what was I gonna do with me? So being that the story ends let the thoughts lead you away into whatever ending you think that deserve.