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The halls of Smosh high are bustling, the lunch bell just rang so Angela is fighting her way down the halls towards the performing arts block to meet Chanse and Amanda for lunch.
She sees a few people she recognizes and waves to each of them. Keith and Noah are in the corner of the cafeteria, she sees Noah reach into his bag and slip a hidden package to another kid who exchanges it for a few gold coins, Angela cringes at how bad it looks but in reality they're selling other kids candy because its band at the scool… in fact Angela buys Reece’s Pieces from the two seniors when she's on her period and requires chocolate, she exits the cafeteria and turns down a hall but freezes when she turns the corner too fast and almost bumps into her English teacher Mr Padilla, she hear a few words of Mr Padilla talking to Mr Hecox arguing about chores before they notice her and pause their decision, she apologizes before quickly leaving to the courtyard to walk around to the drama block the long way, she is pretty sure the teachers dating but they won't confirm or deny it so it's just a hunch.
There are tons of people she recognizes outside, she sees Arasha and Olivia trying to teach Trevor a cheerleader routine, if Angela remembers correctly Trevor and Arasha are neighbors or something, that's probably the only reason she convinced him to do it or even why the older girls are even hanging out with the freshman. On the other side of the field on the bleachers Angela groans when she sees her stupid brother Shayne doing push-ups? She honestly freezes a bit confused and watches for a bit well wondering how her brother has made it to senior year, but after a moment she notices Spencer and Damien, who are her brothers best and practically only friends also judging him, Damien notices her watching, he waves well shooting her a smile, she can't help her slight blush, it's a silly affect he has on her and is something Chanse has teased her about for years, she can't help it though, Damien's nice to her, and he always used to stick up for her when Shayne would scold her for following the older boys around, she attempts to get rid of it by motioning to Shayne and making a confused gesture, She smiles when it makes Damien laugh and he points to the bleachers where she can see Tommy and Courtney sitting on the top row of the seats, Oh! Courtney Miller, she's like the nicest and prettiest girl in school, Angela is well aware Shayne has liked her since like primary school and she's heard him on the phone with Spencer and Damien talking about how he wants to impress her and ask her to prom, Angela rolls her eyes but makes sure to to give an ‘of course’ gesture to Damien who nods along with her from across the field. Angela continues walking towards the drama block, part of her wants to go over and hang out with Damien and Spencer as she always enjoys making fun of Shayne's poor attempts at impressing Courtney with the other two, and she blatantly ignores Chanse when he tells her she likes hanging out with them because of her quote on quote crush on Damien, but she'll feel bad if she leaves Amanda and Chanse waiting.
Unfortunately Angela does make it to her favorite classroom last, Amanda is lounging at the back of the room, she's already taken out a bag of trail mix that she always seems to have and is snacking on them, she waves as Angela enters, Chanse meanwhile looks like he's having a complete midlife crisis, which confuses Angela as they shared a morning class and he looked fine then.
“hey sorry I took so long!!” Angela groans a bit as she finally relaxes at a desk, “dude are you okay?” She chuckles a bit, nudging her bestie's leg, she pauses when he looks up at her sheepishly and she frowns, “what?”
Amanda winces a bit, so clearly she knows what's happening, “umm babe… it's not a big deal, I promise, so don't worry.” Amanda attempts to reassure Angela, it's not very comforting but Angela appreciates it nonetheless and she nods.
“so… you know my boyfriend?” Chanse finally spits out confusing Angela a lot, “Tony? umm yeah? I've met him tons of times… remember the time I complemented his art and he was so flattered he drew me? I still have the picture on my wall…” she says, still very confused, she was literally there when Chanse met Tony, she'd pushed Chanse to ask the guy out.
Chanse nod, “right, stupid question… okay…” He pauses and looks away, “so you know how he was going on holiday with his family at the end of the week?” Angela starts piecing bits together but she puts on a smile filled with denial and nods, “yeah! So he won't be here for Prom, which is why we are going together! Remember!?” her voice becomes a little forced and higher, making Amanda wince, “so we don't have to thirdwheel Amanda and H, which is why I haven't even attempted to ask anyone to go with me and i said no to the nice girl who asked me to go with her… and now everyone already has dates!” She says her eyes twitching a bit like an absolute crazy person.
Chanse let's out an awkward laugh, “right… so… the weather is bad where he's going on holiday, so… they decided to push the vacation back a week… so he'll be here for prom… and he asked me to go with him… and I kinda said… yes?” He says it slowly like, as if Angela can't understand him, and honestly for a split second she does zone out and she misses a bit as Chanse bursts into sorry’s and other apologies.
Amanda pats her back comfortingly, and finally Angela snaps back looking at Chanse shocked, “so… I have to third wheel both of you…” she gasps pointing at them both dramatically, “traitors!!” She yells, grabbing her bag and walking to the door, “what I didn't do anything!” Amanda says slightly offended, causing Angela to stop and turn around with a pout, “give me a day to be dramatic!” Angela whines, Amanda shrugs and offers a thumbs up well Chanse just sheepishly nods.
Angela ends up going to Math's class early, the seating chart in Math is assigned by the teacher so she and Chance don't sit together in this class, meaning she can continue sulking for the rest of the day without feeling bad.
She flops face first onto the desk and groans, the image of her being the only person in her friend group to be alone makes her shudder, and she doesn't even notice the seat next to her move, she glances up and sees her desk mate sit down, the bell hasn't rung yet so he must be early, she peeks up and sees the guy, she thinks his name is Adam or something, he's on the basketball team she's pretty sure and they haven't spoken much, but she knows he's a bit of a dick though from the few conversations they have had, so Angela pulls out her phone in a hope to look busy so they don't have to talk.
She pauses when she opens it as Amanda and Chanse are the ones she really texts when she's bored, she considers playing a game but ultimately opens Damien contact as she can't help wanting to talk to the boy.
Less Annoying Friend
2.23pm Angie! : How did Shayne's attempts at impressing Courtney go??
2.24pm Damien : could have been worse… he managed 6 push-ups then fell face first into the dirt and his nose started bleeding.
2.24pm Damien : but Court saw and insisted on taking him to the nurse herself.
2.25pm Angie! : That's embarrassing… I would've pretended not to know him!
2.27pm Damien : Definitely not the first time you have pretended lol.
2.27pm Damien : not that I mind but can I ask why are you talking to me not Chanse or Amanda?
Angela pauses and thinks for a second, she doesn't want to annoy him but after a moment she decides to be honest, he'll tell her if she annoys him.
2.28pm Angie! : I'm mad 😠 !!! Chanse just told me that he's going to prom with his bf so now I'll be third wheeling him and Amanda… plus we'd agreed to go together!
2.28pm Damien : damn, that sucks… sorry bug…
She smiles at the nickname, remembering when they were younger, she had been following Shayne and Damien around the creek as the older boys looked for eels, she was there much to Shayne's disappointment as their mom had said Angela had to go with them, but Damien was nice and was walking slow to Angela explain how they needed to catch crickets and other bugs to use as eel bait, Shayne made a point to say she needed to be careful cause if a bee stung her then her hand would explode, obviously it was bullshit and he was just trying to scare her, but in an eight year olds head it made perfect sense.
So well Shayne and Damien were looking for a spot to set an eel trap up along the creek edge, Angela ran around to find ‘bait’ at some point she had taken off her skirt so she was in a red top and black shorts and was trying to use the skirt as a net to catch bugs.
Unfortunately at eight Angela was not very good at telling the difference between insects, so when something landed on her cheek she shrieked at the top of her lungs “BEE!!!! IT'S GONNA EXPLODE MY HEAD!!!” She spun around in panic and fell on her butt, somehow the ‘bee’ didn't get scared or fly away, so by the time Damien and Shayne had arrived to make sure she wasn't dying it was still on her cheek.
Shayne had immediately groaned, “that's not even a bee you dork…” He says, immediately going back to the creek once he had made sure his sister was okay, Damien however had crouched down and carefully caught the bug and taken it off her cheek to show her, turns out it was a ladybug, Angela had been in awe at the pretty bug, “don't worry it's just a ladybug!” He had reassured her by placing it on her finger, it flew up and then landed on her red shirt making Damien laugh, “Red and black… it must think you're a ladybug!” Angela beams at this, after a second Shayne yells at them to hurry up, Damien stands up and offers a hand to help her up, “come on bug!”
After that the nickname had kinda just stuck.
2.29pm Damien : if it makes you feel better I don't have a date, and if things go well with Shayne I'll be thirdwheel him and Courtney!
2.29pm Angie! : What about Spencer?
2.29pm Damien : he's not going, he's spending the night playing through a video game…
2.29pm Angie! : lucky him! Mom wouldn't let me skip :/ she said it's an important school experience or wtv…
The bell rings and Angela quickly puts her phone down as the room begins to fill with students. She feels her phone vibrate a couple times but she doesn't get a chance to look at it.
The bell for the end of the day rings and Angela quickly shoves stuff into her bag, she rushes out the building as quick as she can, kinda just wanting to go home, Shayne was supposed to drive her home but his car wasn't in the parking spot it had been earlier, she looks at her phone and sees she has a few missed texts, she sees Shaynes first and cheeks it
2.46pm Shaynly 🙃 : my nose started bleeding and didn't stop so I was sent home early (don't ask) I asked Damien to drive you home.
She can't help giggling a little at the reminder of the nose bleed Damien had told her about, Then she goes to check the other messages she missed, it's from Damien.
2.30pm Damien : well if we're both going to prom alone maybe we could go together?
She freezes and stares at the message for a moment, then she notices two texts under it.
2.45pm Damien : sorry that was a stupid suggestion.
2.59pm Damien : Spencer said he'd drive you home.
Shit!! She feels awful and immediately puts the phone down and runs back into the school, looking for Damien so she can talk to him. She hates she hadn't checked the message when she got it and now she feels like she needs to talk to him in person, she doesn't want to text him and mess it up. She ends up finding Damien leaving the science building, actually she doesn't find him… she runs into him, almost knocking the poor guy completely over.
“SORRY!!! IM LOOKiNG FO-” She screams trying to move around the boy to enter the building, she pauses and looks up after a second and smiles, “Oh! Damien! Good I found you!” She interrupts herself a lot calmer now much to the boy's slight concern, “hey Ange… you okay?” She frowns at the slight nervousness in his voice, she only remembered hearing his ‘nervous voice’ when she heard him talk to others, “I'm sorry!!” She says hugging Damien completely forgetting he's not good with touch, he awkwardly pats her head, “wh- what are you sorry for.” He seems really confused and Angela has a quick panic, maybe he hadn't meant what he said about prom or maybe he'd changed his mind, or maybe she'd just taken it the wrong way, but she'd already committed to this.
She lets him go and immediately starts rambling.
“I didn't see your text until after class and I don't want to make you uncomfortable, because i saw you had gotten Spencer to agree to take me home, and I need you to know I'm not uncomfortable, and I'd love to go to prom with you if you meant it, because I really enjoy hanging out with you, you've always been so kind to me and never treated me like Shayne's annoying little sister and honestly Chanse teases me all the time about how I have a stupid crush on you and he said I should tell you but I thought that was stupid because you're just nice to everyone it's nothing special to do with me but now I'm talking and can't stop, so I'm just gonna keep going and going and going and goin-”
Damien only caught half the words she's spewing but he catches enough to get the point of what she's trying to say, so he cuts her off by placing a hand over her mouth, she immediately pauses and looks at him, “sorry,” she somehow manages to grumble from under his hand, “bug breath,” he can't help but laugh a little, he feels a little silly for how much he was worrying about the text he'd sent, he slowly pulls his hand away, for a moment he doesn't know what to say but settles on, “I'm sorry,” now Angela looks confused but he's not finished, “I shouldn't have been so quick to pull the offer away, and I shouldn't have tried to get Spencer to take you home, especially after I'd said I would,” Angela nods along then gives Damien a hopeful look, “and I'd still love to take you to prom if you'll let me?” Damien continues making Angela smile, “I'll consider it!!” She says happily, and leans up to ever so slightly kiss him.
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“I can't believe you're going with my best friend…” Shayne is in his car, he's currently on his way to pick up Courtney to take her to prom, “I can't believe Courtney said yes when you asked her to prom well covered in blood…” Angela retorts from where she has been banished to the backseat, she's wearing a blue dress, it's red and has black lace flowers along the bottom, she'd gotten the dress to match with Amanda whose dress was green with an almost silver lace.
Shayne chooses to ignore her and pulls into Courtney's driveway and immediately hops out and tries to flatten his gray suit, Angela watches him walk to the door and knock, it opens quickly and Angela admires how pretty Court's stunning gold shimmery dress, Shayne gives her a flower and then they head to the car, “ignore my sister please… she needed a ride.” Shayne tries to joke but he's truthfully hoping Angela doesn't embarrass him, which Angela finds insulting, “well Damien would have driven me but you said we needed a chaperone.” Angela reminds him of the conversation Shayne had with Damien and Angela when he found out they'd kissed, this makes Courtny laugh and Shayne drones as Angela entertains Courtney with embarrassing stories.
The gym looks surprisingly good, seeing as it's still just the school gym, Angela quickly ditches her brother and runs around greeting all her friends, she'd forgiven Chanse for ‘abandoning’ her, but it was hard not to when he pointed out if he hadn't Damien wouldn't of asked her to go with him. Shen makes one stop to Noah and Kieth, she pays them $5 for a pack of gum, then she wanders around looking for Damien.
She sees him across the gym, he's in a black suit, he looks good, he hasn't spotted her yet so she sneaks up on his and pats his shoulder, when he moves to turn and look she ducks down and shifts so she stays behind him and he can't see her, he looks confused for a second but then he grins, “bug?” She groans at how quickly he'd realized it was her but she steps in front of him and smiles, “hi dames!” She says quickly, “you look great,” he tells her admiring her dress, Angela does a dramatic twirl and beams, “why you don't look too shabby yourself!” She says, causing him to laugh, “so… are we supposed to dance?” He asks curiously, Angela nods and grabs his arm to pull him towards the middle of the room.
They spend the night dancing, eating the crap food, and then sneaking out well Shayne is distracted to go get junk food.