Feel Real Good by Stephanie Perry Moore

Author:Stephanie Perry Moore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group

CHAPTER NINE

Devastating (Octavia’s Middle)

“Is he gonna ask me to the freaking prom or what, y’all?” Octavia said, throwing a hissy fit at the fast-food restaurant with her swoop list girls.

Pia leaned over and said, “I hope he asks you, because I need somebody to go with.”

“Whatever.” Octavia nudged her. “You’re going with Stephen ... Mr. Million Roses.”

“Yeah, but Sanaa and Olive told me they ain’t going, and Willow got her nose up in the air. She ain’t tryna say yes if poor little Dawson gets up the nerve to ask her,” Pia said. Dawson was Willow’s neighbor and former boyfriend. Their relationship had hit the rocks recently. “So, when Shawn asks you, I’ll be excited. It can be me and you and our dates, hanging at the prom. Not a perfect world, because all of us won’t be together, but it’ll be fun ... if I go, anyway. I’m thinking about canceling on Stephen.”

“What are you talking about?” Octavia voiced, saying what all the others were thinking.

“I don’t have anything to wear.” Pia looked down. “It’s not like my mom can afford a dress right now. She’s just getting on her feet. The last thing I wanna do is worry her about getting me something. I don’t know how to break it to Stephen that I can’t afford to go to prom, but that’s my dilemma. I still wanna go so bad, but ... ”

Sanaa chimed in, “But money is tight. I understand parent job issues.”

“All that stuff can be worked out. Money shouldn’t keep people from going to the prom,” Willow shared. “And a man ain’t gon’ keep me from going. Sanaa? Be my date, girl?”

“We’re seniors. You don’t mind stags?” Sanaa asked.

“Naw. We’ll step in there beautiful and show ’em. Make all the boys in the place wish they’d asked us. Well, not Shawn and Stephen, of course,” Willow joked. “But the rest of them guys in there will be on my booty.”

“See, you ain’t got no type of sense,” Sanaa said as she gave Willow a big high five, actually agreeing with her.

Willow said, “Olive, you should go with us.”

“Pia’s not the only one who doesn’t have a dress,” Olive said.

“I told you, we’ll get that all worked out,” Willow reassured her. “The church has some group they work with in Atlanta that does something with dresses. I don’t know.”

“Well, tell us about it,” Sanaa said. “Quit holding out!”

Playfully putting her hands up to tell Sanaa to back off, Willow replied, “I don’t know all the details.”

“See, you get people up to let them down. Don’t be sayin’ you can help work things out when you don’t know what’s up,” Pia joked back.

“You are trippin’!” Willow said. “We’ll figure out all the details. Calm down. It’s obvious that you don’t want to tell Shawn you can’t go, so heads up. We all going to prom.”

“Speak for yourself, Willow,” Olive murmured. “It’s not just about a dress for me. I don’t wanna go with my girls. If I can’t go with Charles, I don’t wanna go.

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