Tory’s POV
” Okay, now look in the mirror,” my mom said and I turned my chair around. ” Oh my goodness”
” Close enough,” Toni said with a smirk, her make up was done first and she looked amazing. Though she didn’t want her hair curled up so she looked different, she still looked beautiful. She was wearing a long, black gown with silver patters and a silver necklace and earrings to match. She was perfect.
” Nate’s gonna give the perfect word that describes you,” Tia said as she sat on my bed and carefully touched my hair.
” I’ll be downstairs”
” Okay Mom” we chorused.
” Tia, why don’t you wanna come with us for prom?” Toni said
” Because I can’t. My stomach’s outing my pregnancy, marriage is what’s on my mind now. Besides, I already did prom in the junior year so…”
” You know, I feel you’ll win this year – prom Queen.” She said to Toni who just sighed and was about to say something when Tia stopped her.
” I know what you’re going to say – that you think I should’ve won and that you feel like you’re living my dream. You feel guilty about it, I know.”
” I’m sorry,” Toni said looking downwards.
” Really Toni? You really feel that way?”
” Of course I do, we wouldn’t have to be in the same grade if I didn’t push you off the stairs when we were kids leaving you in a coma for a year!”
” I’ve told you a thousand times, we were kids. Stop blaming yourself for it. Today is your day, and much like mom, I want you girls to have fun today. I don’t care if either of you feel like you’re living my life because the life I wanna live is by Brian. No matter what happened.”
” Okay”
” Now, let’s go downstairs. I think your dates just drove in.”
” Right! Though I don’t know… Why are both of you looking at me like that?” I asked when I saw the way their eyes were fixated on me.
” You look so beautiful Tory,” Tia said with a smile while Toni nodded in agreement.
” I take it back. Tory’s gonna win.”
” Hey!” Toni whined and Tia laughed. ” Honestly, I don’t care who wins but Tory if you win this year, I don’t think you’ll win next year.”
” Juniors aren’t considered, remember? It’s always seniors. They’re the ones who will never get a chance to go to prom again.”
” Yeah whatever, anyway. I’m gonna go. I can hear mom talking so loudly to Troas and I think it’s a cue for me to go downstairs.”
” Okay, let’s go.”
” What about Nate have you heard from him yet?”
” No, but he said he’ll come to pick me up,” I said though I knew he meant his driver would come to pick me up. I don’t think his father would let him move around freely today.
I looked at myself in the gown he got for me. It was light green with a touch of golden love shapes scattered around it that matched the golden necklace and earrings I wore.
The strapless gown showed a little bit of my cleavages – just the way Nate likes it. The gown fit me perfectly down my curves and then became free and loose beneath my knee.
It didn’t sweep the floor like Toni’s but just stopped at the ground, with a slit showing my thigh and my heels gave me this freakishly tall height. It’s been forever since I wore heels and I had begged my mom to let me wear another shoe but she refused. Nate had bought me the shoe so I should wear it, she said.
” Victorya!” My mom called and I realized that I was alone in the room. I quickly left my room and went downstairs.
” There she is.” My mom said and I sighed as I climbed down the last step, my eyes focused on each step so I wouldn’t fall.
” God, I hate heels,” I said and heard a familiar chuckle. I looked up and found Nate standing there looking sexy as hell in a white tuxedo! He always said he hated white because it made him look like chalk and his platinum blond hair didn’t help matters.
I had agreed with him when he said white doesn’t suit him but today, I totally disagree. His hair was slicked back as usual but with a very fresh undercut, this time that looked like it was created for him.
Even in the suit, I could make out his muscles. Has he been working out or… Is it just my paranoid eyes. He smirked at me and said, ” I know you hate heels but damn Rya, you’re not even trying to be beautiful, beautiful is trying to be you.”
Everyone went ” ohhh” and I smiled at Nate who’s smirk had turned into a full-blown grin.
” That’s a cheap line, McClain.” I teased and walked closer to him, he wasted no time in sliding his hands around my waist and kissed me softly.
” I don’t want to mess up your make up – which I swear you don’t need.”
” Thank you for that McClain, I never expected that you wouldn’t mess it up,” I said wrapping my hands around his neck.
” Are we going or you two wanna be romantic here all night?” Troas asked rolling his eyes and we laughed, I removed my hand from his neck and smirked at Troas and a very amused Toni.
” Let’s go,” Nate said as he tucked his elbow out and I placed my arm in his before we walked out.
” Have fun!” Our mom and Tia said and we waved back before entering Nate’s limo.
” See you at prom!” I yelled to Toni who entered Troas’s Lamborghini and winked at me before she rolled up the glass.
I looked at Nate and sure enough, his eyes were glued on me. We sat there as the driver drove, staring at each other without saying a word, a smile on our faces.
” You look like a goddess Rya.”
” You look dashing as always,” I said as I tugged on his tux and dusted invisible dirt from his suit.
” You’re welcome for the dress.”
” Thank you, Nate” I said laughing and he smirked.
” You wanna know something?”
” Yeah”
” This was the way I dreamed you and I would go to prom.”
” Oh really? And when did you dream of this?” I asked with a smirk on my face and he moved closer to me and smelled my body. His hot breath fanning my skin as planted gentle kisses on my neck.
” Hmm, you smell perfect.”
” I know that,” I said cocking a brow at him and he smiled before he answered my question. ” I daydream about you a lot Tory, but I’m pretty sure that it started the first day I met you.”
” Even after what I said about you?”
” That’s the thing, Tory, I couldn’t stop thinking about you. I would stay up all night some days thinking of us going on fancy dinner parties and shit like that. So I imagined you in a lot of scandalous dresses but this one… Was perfect.”
” Scandalous dresses, Nate!”
” What? Like you haven’t done something like that before. I bet your mind is dirtier than mine.”
” Think whatever makes you happy. So how’d you get your designer to make this dress in a day?”
” I had it done a month ago.”
I sat there as he tethered his arms around me and smiled at him. His eyes held so much desire and I’m sure mine did too. I really didn’t want to think about the fact that I might not see him again.
Without another word, I placed my lips on Nate’s and he parted his lips letting me in. We kissed like we wouldn’t have the chance to kiss ever again. My body ached for him but I didn’t want to look a mess so I broke the kiss.
Nate stared at me, surprise written on his face.
” I don’t want to mess up my make up,” I said and anger seemed to flash in his eyes.
” Rya, you don’t need makeup,” he said before he pulled me on top of him and unzipped my gown revealing my bare breasts. He slithered his way to my panties and tore it.
” Nate we shouldn’t.”
” We should,” he said as he lifted me and unbuttoned his pants.
” Maybe we should…” My words trailed off when I felt him inside me and I bit my lips.
” What were you saying love?” He said, his voice deep and rough.
” Nothing,” I said as I pulled him to me, kissing him as we made love.