‘That’ Side Character Chapter 72: Prom at Kenma’s

“Not on the list? But I’m in the class?” you said with confusion.

“I am aware,” she said through clenched teeth, “but you did not RSVP.”

“I mentioned that she would be with me,” Kenma said to the teacher and she shook her head.

“We cannot accept RSVP’s on behalf of other students. Each student was in charge of their own selves so if Y/N has not RSVP’d for herself then she is not allowed in.” The look of absolute sadistic delight on the teacher’s face made you feel like she had planned this from the beginning and your heart dropped.

“All this effort. All the getting ready for the prom and I’m not allowed in. This is bullshit…”

“We’ll go then,” Kenma suddenly said and turned to leave, still holding your hand in his.

“We… what?” you asked, being led away by him.

“Kenma!” the teacher called, “you have RSVP’d you must attend.”

“If you’re not letting Y/N in then I’m not going in either,” he said over his shoulder as he continued to walk away. 

Your mind immediately snapped back to a memory where you had been out with your friends… ‘friends’… at the shops. Everyone seemed to be having a good time but you felt like you weren’t really being included. You didn’t have any proof though, as they were still kinda half including you but it felt forced.

The true feelings of the other girls became apparent though, when they decided to go into a photo booth to take picture to commemorate the time you had spent together that day.

“Oh… wait it only says 4 at a time and there’s 5 of us,” the leader of the girl group said as she looked back at you all.

“That’s an easy fix,” another of your friends said, looking at you, “we’ll do us 4 and Y/N can wait out here.”

All eyes were on you and you just looked at them in turn, your heart sinking slowly as the reality hit you that they didn’t want you in the picture.

Unable to speak, you just watched as they all crammed into the booth to take the photo, then hopped out again, laughing and chatting happily as they waited for the photos to print out.

“Umm… does anyone want to come in with me?” you asked, stepping up to the door of the photo booth by yourself.

“No thanks,” one of the other girls said as she reached for the photos that had just been printed and were sitting in the little catchment tray at the bottom of the photo booth printer.

“You look so funny in this one!” Girl friend number one giggled to girl friend number 2.

“Oh my god! Delete that one,” girl 2 replied, all of the four girls making comments to each other about the faces they had pulled. 

You were upset, but you didn’t want to cry, that would just make it worse. They would just tell you that you were being stupid and a cry baby.

On the way to the station, walking at the back of the group, one of the girls dropped back to ask you something and saw that you were really down.

“Why are you being like this?” she asked with annoyance, “why are you always being a sook?”

“I wanted to take a picture with everyone but you guys didn’t let me,” you replied glumly.

“Well you should have spoken up. It’s you fault you didn’t get a picture,” she said dismissively, before catching up with the other girls and ignoring you.

This whole memory happened in the blink of an eye and you looked down at Kenma with his hand holding yours and tears welled in your eyes.

“You’re not going to go in without me?” you asked him.

“No?” he replied, “I don’t want to go in if you’re not there.”

Your bottom lip quivered.

He really was the sweetest boyfriend.

You pulled your hand from his and threw yourself at him, hugging him violently as you sniffed heavily to hold your tears back.

“Hey?” he asked as you squished him with love.

“I’m so happy! I’ve never had anyone care about me before and I want to get a picture!” you babbled, half through stifled tears, half not.

“A picture?” Kenma asked.

“Yes,” you stated, “let’s go now.”

You then grabbed his hand in yours and dragged him out the front gates of school and off down to the local arcade where you knew they had a picture booth.

Determined and happy, you marched him straight up to the photo booth and glanced at the person limit sign on the side.

Without hesitation, you stepped in and grabbed his arm to pull him in as well.

Poor Kenma was along for the ride now and you pulled all kinds of faces for the photo while he just stood there with the most lost look on his face. 

Once you had taken all the photos you wanted, you stepped out and waited for them to print.

“Today has been the best day!” you said happily, wiping the tears that had been sitting along your lower lid.

“But…” he said softly, he was going to ask why? To him it seemed like it had been a bad day because you weren’t allowed into the prom but your radiant face was proving that to not be the case.

“This one is my favorite,” you chuckled, pointing to a picture of you kissing him on the cheek and a surprised look on his face.

He looked at all the pictures and pointed to one at the bottom where he had sneezed and you were laughing your heart out.

“This is my favourite. You look happiest in this one.”

You smiled at him then leaned in and kissed his lips.

“You know what? Let’s go and get some food and then go back to yours and have our own prom,” you said, hyped up on happiness.

“Ok,” Kenma said, following your lead.

Your purchases at the local food store looked more like an unsupervised 7 year old had been given $100, and when you left, you went straight back to his place to set up for your makeshift prom.

“What songs do you want? I’ll make a playlist,” you said, pulling your phone out of your pocket and setting it up.

“Umm… I don’t really know,” he said, “you can pick.”

“Even better!” you replied with a bright smile. 

In 15 minutes you had everything set up in his room and the floor cleared for dancing.

“Ok. If I was at the prom I would want to dance. Come and dance with me!” you implored, connecting your phone to his speakers so you could blast some music to dance to.

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