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Baby let me watch you go to town
It's your one chance, baby, never or now, yeah
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[color=silver]While inside of one of the tents, Julie found herself staring at her reflections in one of the huge foil balloons fixing her meticulous hairstyle. Keeping a careful eye on the small chain watch she had around her wrist, she had been here for 15 minutes already and still had not spotted her date anywhere. Though the redhead knew Andrés had been understandably upset that he was not able to take his own girlfriend to homecoming, Julie could not ignore the slow creeping feeling that she was being stood up. With one swift movement she flattened the last of the flyaways that had been created in the bustle of getting inside, Julie turned around to survey the dancing crowd that was her peers. 

Her jaw just about dropped when she spotted her best friend Chanel entering looking drop dead gorgeous in an original creation no doubt. But her girl looking stunning was not why Julie was so shocked, no that emotion was as a result of seeing Chanel’s date Jordan. Now granted, the Macmillan girl did not know much about the mysterious foreign student. But what she did know was that she had never seen him so put together. He cleaned up ve-ery nicely. No doubt in her mind that Chanel was behind this [i]glow up[/i], Julie smiled and nodded approvingly when she caught her main girls eye, making a mental note to commend her for her miracle work.

She sighed, getting a bit bored quite frankly, had she really spent the whole day getting ready only to spend it alone begrudgingly watching couples having fun. The redhead pursed her lips in frustration, right then and there she decided that [i]no[/i] she would have fun on her own if she needed to! With a huff she made her way into the crowd in search of something, anything. 

Walking around the crowd was oddly calming, watching all of the different pairings that had been forced together interact was interesting to say the least. She spotted her driver Archer awkwardly walking away from his poor date Ariel, sweet little Bea was tightly squeezing Kavan Varma on the dancefloor and on the edge of said dance floor she found the ever surly Sonny Drake.

[color=CF5685]“Oh Sonny I didn’t know you liked to dance?!”[/color] She floated up next to him and his date and fellow redhead Nadia, grinning as she finally found someone to talk to.[color=CF5685] “Nadia, you look stunning, that dress is divine!”[/color] Julie exclaimed eyes sparkling as she surveyed the girl under the spotlights. 

Just as she was going to let Sonny know that he also cleaned up very nicely, she felt a tap on her shoulder. Turning her head to see who it was she found herself looking up at the tall, dark and handsome being that was Andrés De la Fuente.

[color=FFF79A]“Hey, your Uber driver is waiting outside,”[/color]

It took a few moments for Julie’s mind to react to his statement, but finally she snapped back to reality. [color=CF5685]“Oh!? But I thought I cancelled the uber?!”[/color] She spluttered fumbling for her phone before it sunk in… he was making a joke. She giggled embarrassed, closing the clasp on her purse. The swelling feeling of joy of finally seeing her date made her smile widely at him. Before she even knew why she had done it Julie had flung herself into a tight embrace with the newly arrived boy. 

[color=CF5685]“You made it!”[/color] She squealed as she let him go looking him up and down [color=CF5685]“Looking gorgeous I might add! That suit fits you like a glove, who is it by? Oh it doesn’t really matter! Have you seen Martha yet? Who was her date again? Oh you know Sonny and Nadia from school right?”[/color] She gestured towards the other two. 

Julie took a steading breath, why was she acting like this? Rambling on and on, was it just that she was so relieved that she hadn’t been stood up, or was it something else. 

[color=CF5685]“Sorry.”[/color] She whispered, [color=CF5685]“Let’s start that over. How are you Andrés? You look very handsome”[/color] she smiled at him again this time less manic.[/color]