EMMA

"So, you gay huh?", Emma said with a laugh, after Matt told her the story of what happened at his home.

"You should have seen how they were freaking out", Matt said with a smile.

"Your siblings are something", Emma said, remembering the big pancake fight in the kitchen that day.

"Yeah, it's gonna be difficult leaving them", said Matt, as he parked the car in the parking, "unlike Abby, I really love them."

Emma frowned, "Yeah you've never told me about that."

Matt got outside, walked over to the passenger side, and opened Emma's door for her and held his hand out, which Emma took with a smile.

"No need to be so fancy", she said with a smile.

Matt shrugged, "I think prom should be an exception."

They entered the hall and Emma stood back. Whoa. There was not a single wall which was not covered with streamers. There was big wall covered with pictures and post its with compliments written by all the students. Emma took one of them and a marker and wrote

Matt is gay

Matt scowled and took a post it himself and put it on the wall and wrote

Emma is dumb

Emma laughed, "Is that the worse you could think of?"

Matt kissed her on the cheek, making sparks dance across it and goosebumps cover her skin, which she believed were fairly visible to him, and he whispered against her cheek, "Maybe it is."

They looked around and Emma smiled. Everybody had gone all out, and oh, Smelly Pete had a hot date. She looked at Matt, and maybe he had the same confused look on his face too.

"Go Pete!", they said together and smiled.

They walked over to the table where Kevin and Kyle were sitting and Kyle was looking at the crowd and pouting, "Why is she talking to that playboy Chad over there?"

Emma followed his gaze to see Penny talking to Chad in the crowd, smiling at what he said, then when he whispered something to her, she started laughing.

"Okay he's definitely hitting on her, I'll bash his brains out-", Kyle said, getting up, but Matt pulled him down.

"Hey, hey, chill. Chad's my teammate. He has a girlfriend", Matt said, making Kyle sit down.

Emma smiled. There he was, saving his teammate from getting injured, even though the teammate looked like he could brain ten Kyles in a single blow. So maybe he was saving Kyle. But Emma was pretty surprised.

"Who knew you could be so insecure?", Emma said with a laugh.

"It's Penny", Kyle said with a shrug. As is that was an explanation, Penny was a goddamned monster if you woke her up from her afternoon nap. And otherwise too.

Emma saw Ian beckoning to Matt, who looked at Emma. Emma smiled and nodded, so he got up and went over to Ian. Emma was filled with joy, Matt asking her permission to leave her.

Then some girl came up to him and started laughing and stroking his hand. Emma's hand shook, why the fuck was she touching him?! Oh my God she was hitting on him!

Emma got up, "That slut wants to sleep with him. When I'm done with her, her face will be of the same colour as the lipstick she's smeared on her face!", she said and started towards them, when she felt hands wrap around her waist pulling her back, and there was a breath of laughter tickling her ear.

"And you were calling me insecure", she heard Kyle's voice, ringed with laughter.

PENNY

"Aren't you gonna play?", Penny asked Kyle, as they filled their glasses with punch.

"They did beg me to play Locked Out Of Heaven again. A lot. But you see", said Kyle taking a small sip, "a lot of those band geeks don't have dates, and I happen to have a very beautiful one", he said, and Penny kissed his cheek, making him smile, "so I told them to take the spotlight and give me a break."

"Good. I can have you all to myself now", Penny said, as Kyle wrapped one arm around her waist.

Penny set her glass down on their table, where Emma was sitting and swirling the punch in her glass, "Which one did you get?", she asked as Penny sat down.

"I got the green one", Penny said, "it tastes like apple."

"I got the blue one", Emma said, "tastes like Listerine. Can I taste yours?"

Penny handed hers to Emma, and she took a sip, then smiled, "I'm taking this one next."

Penny spotted a disposable camera resting on a table close by, so she grasped it and held it up, as Kyle and Emma stood behind her and they smiled into the camera.

Then she looked for a screen, to see the picture they had then heard Kyle laugh behind her, "It's a disposable camera, we have to develop the pictures. You can't see them."

"I-I knew that", Penny said, her cheeks turning red.

They then took a lot more pictures, some with Shane jumping in the background, some with Matt's head popping up in front, and they took so many that after some time, the flash did not go off.

"You finished off the film, you freaks", Will said, devouring a brownie.

Penny went over to the table to finally finish her punch when Liv picked it up and finished almost half of it before Penny snatched it from her mouth.

"Hey!", Liv complained.

"Get your own punch, Livvy", said Penny, finishing off the rest of it.

Kyle held his hand out, "You dancing with me or what?"

Penny smiled, "Let's do this."

They went to the dance floor, but then Penny stumbled and was about to fall before Kyle caught her and supported her up.

"You okay?", he asked, worry dancing in his eyes. He looked cute when he was worried, his forehead would wrinkle and his eyes would become a shade of black. Like the tea that Mum drank.

"Yeah, but I think that I should sit down", Penny said slowly, as she could hear her words echo in her head.

MATT

Matt was hanging with Griffin when Penny walked up to them. Actually, stumbled up to them. And she had a funny look on her face.

"Penny, you okay?", Matt asked, cause she clearly did not look okay.

She stood on her toes and whispered in his ear, "Do you buy your abs online?"

Matt scowled. Maybe he had heard her wrong, "What?!",he asked.

"I said, do you buy your abs online?", she asked again, and looked at Griffin, who was also looking as worried as Matt felt.

"I want two", she said, holding two fingers up.

Matt placed a hand behind her back, because looking at her sway from side to side, Matt was afraid she would fall.

"How about I take you back to the table and tell others?"

"Will they buy me abs?", Penny asked, with wide innocent eyes. Did the punch have alcohol? Even after that, how much did she drink?

Matt took her to the table, and to his luck, no one was there, so he told Penny to stay put, and went around to find Emma. He saw her talking to the a member of the art club. He was about to approach her, when he felt two hands on his shoulder, and somebody jumped on him. He acted on reflex and put his hands behind him to hold the person, and when he turned around, he saw Liv on his back, the same dreamy expression on her face as Penny.

She was stroking her hand in his hair, muttering something all to herself, which made Matt reasonably uncomfortable, considering she was Will's girlfriend.

"Um, Liv, could you get off?", Matt asked, trying to be as polite as he could.

"Your hair is sooooo soft", Liv said, dragging her voice, "Like a baby's butt."

Did she just compare his hair to a baby's butt? Something was definitely up. Matt saw Emma staring at them, so he called out, "Emma, come here."

But Liv shook her head, "No, no don't call her. I think Will still has feelings for her."

Matt stood up straight, "What?!"

"What?", Emma asked.

"Will still has feelings for you", Liv repeated and Emma's eyes went wide and she shook her head at Matt. Matt nodded, Liv was just not herself at the moment. But he had to tell her what Will had told him.

"Liv, Will just thinks you're too good for him. He doesn't have feelings for Emma, he only has feelings for you", Matt said with confidence.

"I'm not good for him. I'm a pathetic person. I'm doing a terrible thing. He doesn't deserve this", Liv said shaking her head.

"Liv, your past doesn't define you", Emma said, stroking her hand.

"No, it is my present. Forget him, I don't even deserve you guys. I don't deserve anybody", Liv said, and Matt could feel her body shaking, but couldn't turn around properly to see her. Emma's concerned look told him that she was probably crying.

"Liv, don't cry. Will does love you", Emma said, trying to console her, while Matt held her on his back, standing uncomfortably, both physically and emotionally.

"I looove him too", she drawled. Then Matt remembered that she was still perched on his back, when he saw Will coming towards them in the crowd, "But i shouldn't .I always wish he was my first time, and not that son-of-a-bitch Stan."

"St-Stan was your first kiss?", Emma asked.

"No the first time I had sex", said Liv, very freely.

"You did it with your foster brother?", Emma asked, her eyes wide.

"No he forced me", Liv said.

Matt was too surprised to say anything but Will was coming closer and Matt really did not want to be a recipient of Will's punches.

"Can I put you down now?", Matt asked gently.

"No, no, don't. I like it up here. I can see the entire world from up here", Liv said, spreading her arms out.

"Why the heck are you giving my girlfriend a piggy-back ride?", Will asked, finally approaching them.

"She's high", Emma and Matt said together.

"I want to transfer", Liv said loudly, as she got off Matt's back very roughly, then stumbled to Will and jumped into his back.

"You are soo good looking, you should be a model", Liv said to Will, running her hands in his hair now, "you should have been my first. Not Stan."

Matt could see Will's expression change as realisation dawned on him, "Stan?!"

"He forced her", said Emma sadly.

Will's expression was downright murderous now, so much that Emma and Matt actually took a step back in fear. Matt could see his fists curling up, and that made Matt genuinely scared Stan. Matt had seen Will throw some pretty hard punches, and Matt was happy he had never been on the receiving end.

"He's dead", Will said, in a cold, quiet voice.

Matt opened his mouth to speak, but then saw that Emma reach out and take Will's arm and stopped with his mouth hanging open. He did not like Emma touching Will in any human way possible. Call him jealous, but Matt was still a bit so from the homecoming incident when Will kissed Emma even though he knew Matt Emma had a thing going.

So his hand on Emma's shoulder dropped down, as he watched Emma giving Will a stern look, with his cheeks flaming slightly.

WILL

Will was thinking of all the things he could do to Stan if he broke into juvie, his mind going blank with rage as he thought of Stan touching his delicate Liv, and making her life hell. But then Emma's hand on his arm jolted him out of the livid vision in his head, and his anger dissipated a little, and his cheeks heated up as he looked up at Matt whose cheeks were also turning red. But Emma was giving him the stink-eye.

"Get ahold of yourself, Will", Emma said with some weird kind if force, which surprised Will. Emma was not like this.

"Liv needs you right now, she's not in the right state of mind, and you are here, thinking of beating up a guy who's already in jail. Let go of the past and look at the present", Will glanced behind at Liv, whose head was resting on his shoulder, as she lightly snored. And he smiled a little. She looked so cute.

"You people need to sort your priorities out, and talk to each other before making stupid assumptions", Emma continued, "And learn to love yourself a little."

Will was utterly speechless. Emma was not the confronting type. And yet she was so correct that Will could not retaliate. He balanced Liv on his back, as she moved a little and nestled her head in the crook of his neck. Emma was right, he needed to focus on Liv now and keep his temper in control.

Will nodded at her, "I'll take her to Shane. He's an expert on crazy."

"Don't forget to mention that she jumped on me and compared my hair to a baby's butt. And tell him Penny wants to buy some abs online", Matt said, none of the sentences making any sense to Will.

"Um, Liv, baby, can you get off", Will said, trying to as gentle as he could.

Liv lifted her head from his shoulder, and looked at him weirdly, "You never called me baby", she said sadly. Why the heck was she sad, and why did she have tear stains on her face? If he found the person who made her cry...

But Will forced a smile for her sake, "Well, I am, now."

KYLE

Kyle came to the table, with a bottle of aspirin, and yup, she was gone. Kyle put a hand on his forehead, he shouldn't have left her side. What was wrong with him?

Fortunately, he saw Penny walking towards him, stumbling actually, holding a pom-pom in one hand, while holding a blonde wig in the other. She sat down and looked at him with eyes narrowed, "Tuxedos don't suit you", she said, waving the pom-pom in the air, and staring at it with complete fascination in those baby brown eyes. Kyle was feeling slightly hurt, but hey, she was weirdly high after all.

Shane walked over to their table, and while Penny had been trying to put the wig on Kyle's elbow, and Kyle saw Will coming behind him, with Liv on his back, who also looked like she had just downed twenty tequila shots in a minute.

"You", said Penny, pointing a finger at Shane, "You have very weird eyebrows", she said, touching Shane's forehead.

Shane took her hand off his forehead, and shook his head, "Yup, this is the effect of ecstasy", he said. Kyle stepped back in shock while Will gave Shane an incredulous look, "Esctasy?!", they both cried out together.

"You mean someone spiked her drink?", Kyle asked, fear clouding his thoughts. One of his friends had collapsed on the quad a month ago because he took two tablets. He had been taken to the emergency room.

"Who would spike their drinks?", Will asked. Kyle could see how Will had visibly tightened his grip on Liv, who was looking around, with a cute silly smile on her face.

"I dunno, dawg, you tell me", Shane said, observing Penny flail the pompom around.

"Oh my God a troll!", Penny cried, pointing in Smelly Pete's direction, who scowled at them then scooted away from them.

Kyle controlled the urge to laugh and placed a hand on Penny's shoulder, "Um, Penny, darling, dont speak so loudly, please", Kyle said, being as gentle as he could.

Then Kelly went up on the stage and spoke on the mic, "Hey, guys! Hope you have been enjoying yourselves! The results are in, and its time to declare your prom king and queen!"

Kyle observed the people cheering and crowding around the stage. He didn't even remember who was nominated. But he knew Chloe would win. She won Homecoming Queen too, what if she pulled in a few favors for this as well?

"And your prom king is....Will Fisher!", Kelly announced, as the others clapped loudly. Kyle turned around to see Will, with a completely astonished look on his face. Maybe he didnt know who was nominated either.

Liv jumped off Wills back and leaned on Shane, "Yay!", she cried, " you are king! You will rule the land and people will bow to you!"

"Go dude", Kyle said, little uncomfortable now that he felt everybody's eyes in their direction.

"I cant just leave her like this", Will hissed.

"She's fine with us, dawg", Shane said, and Kyle nodded in confirmation. So Will nodded and walked towards the stage. He climbed up, smiled at the crowd and let Kelly place a plastic crown on his head.

"And your prom queen is...", Kelly said, as Kyle noted that Chloe had already begun walking towards the stage, "...Penelope Roberts!"

Kyle felt his eyes go wide as his vision unfocussed. Did his girlfriend just become Prom Queen?! He would have been happy, except the fact that his girlfriend was super high on ecstasy at the moment.

He was so stunned that he didn't notice Penny weave through the crowd and stumble up onto the stage, where she almost knocked Kelly down. Kyle placed his hand on his forehead. The others couldn't find out that Penny was on drugs. That would be a disaster. Will was gving Kyle alarmed looks as Penny stepped in front of
the mic.

But Kyle ran towards the stage and hopped onto it before Penny could say a word. He could feel hundreds of eyes on him, but he ignored it. He could not let the others find out and distraction was the only way. So he walked up to Penny who was looking at him the same dreamy expression and kissed her, in front of everybody. He could hear a few cheers in the background, and a little hooting as well, when he let go of Penny and faced the mic.

"Um sorry guys, got a little carried away. As for their slow dance", he motioned to Will who took Penny's hand almost dragged her down the stage as she was waving at the people as if they were her royal subjects.

"Thinking Out Loud", he whispered to the drumist behind and then began to sing.

When your legs don't work like they used to before
And I can't sweep you off of your feet
Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love
Will your eyes still smile from your cheeks

He fixed his eyes on Penny, who was also looking at him, while Will was dancing rather uncomfortably. But he was looking in some other direction.

And darling I will be loving you 'til we're 70
And baby my heart could still fall as hard at 23
And I'm thinking 'bout how people fall in love in mysterious ways
Maybe just the touch of a hand
Oh me I fall in love with you every single day
And I just wanna tell you I am

Soon, the others also began to join in. Kyle spotted Matt and Emma in the centre, Matt grinning like crazy, and realized that he was singing one of Matts favourite songs. Kyle shook his head and grinned. He had unintentionally picked a song which might make their prom slightly more memorable.

So honey now
Take me into your loving arms
Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars
Place your head on my beating heart
I'm thinking out loud
Maybe we found love right where we are

And with that, Kyle took a bow and hopped off stage.

Dont worry guys, proms not over yet, its just getting started...