Wow. Yesterday was insane.

My dress wasn't finished until after five, when almost of half of the group was here already so, once again, my friends have been subjected to my family. I'm going to start allowing a good hour between my family leaving and my friends coming over, just to make sure they don't run into each other.

Then my hair wouldn't cooperate with me. At all. I couldn't get the braid thing done, then I put in a couple of twists which kept falling out :-Þ

But dinner was good. Ricky loved it (he wanted me to make more of the garlic parmesan sauce for him...I had to break it to him that it was just Ragu, lol), April, the notoriously picky eater, liked it. And even Mr. Domesticity (Brad) approved of the meal. A huge mess was left...which I still need to clean up. We kinda ran off without much warning last night to get pictures at Britt's house, and then going to visit Cajun 'cause we all missed him. The guy's been practically dying since Monday's rehearsal. But he's gonna be back in school tomorrow. Which is gonna be interesting (refraining from saying more in the event that Jake reads this...can't have him figuring out The Story)

Actual prom was...wow. Crazy. Major fun (hell of a lot more fun than last year) but crazy. Everyone was getting strange vibes from Rebecca. She's supposed to be going out with Ricky...but I think she danced with him once. She spent most of her time on the dance floor with either John or me. Yeah. Which was a little strange...but not wholly unpleasant. Nicole doesn't think the Rebecca/Ricky thing is gonna last for long, and that pretty soon Rebecca might be trying to hook up with me. If I agreed, would that make me completely pathetic? Nicole has absolutely no idea, which is strange. She's usually the relationship-advice-Goddess. She has said that if we do get back together, and Rebecca dumps me a second time for the same pathetic reasons...Nicole's gonna kill her, lol.

I don't think I'm gonna think that far ahead. I have no idea what's going to happen. All I can do is wait. For all I know, Rebecca's attitude last night at prom (and then at the party...I'll get to that in a bit) was temporary insanity and she was, I don't know, trying to get back at Ricky for not being the most charming prom date ever. Though I do wonder if Rebecca has some unresolved feelings. When you're asking your ex "Why did I break up with you?!" when we've been at the prom for half an hour, there's gotta be some issues there.

Anyway, prom itself was fun. Most of the music sucked, but they played "I Will Survive" and "YMCA". Yeah, most surreal moment of the evening: Rebecca and I singing a song about surviving a break up. Was I the only one who caught the irony of that?

Anyway, around 10:40, I think, Nicole, Rebecca and I finally left for Dana's party. Dana and Ricky had taken off around 10:00, and I think Brad and April left for the party around then as well. Britt left shortly after them. So we get to the party, and while Rebecca's struggling to take her hair down and I'm getting out of my shoes (and feeling major guilt for not realizing that Laura and Julianna didn't know how to get to Dana's and I just left them!), Dana told us about Emily getting, essentially, kicked out of her house because of Dana. Emily's mother has always had issues with Dana, I guess, and what it evidentally came down to was Emily's mom saying that if Emily was gonna see Dana again, she wasn't going to be living in her house. Emily said "fine" and has been living with friends ever since. I'm worried about her. Especially since she didn't tell anyone! Dana didn't know until tonight when she went to pick up Emily to come to the after party. Poor British....

Okay, so at the party...it was really laid back. We just sat around and watched DVDs. The animated series of 'Clerks,' I guess. Anyway, the entire time we were there, Rebecca was very clingy. Nicole thought it was worse than when we were going out...of course, "worse" depends on your point of view, lol. She was hanging off me more than she had been while she was dating, let's put it that way, and for once I didn't mind. Like I've said, I was just getting used to having a girlfriend when she broke it off, so I think I was just slipping back into that mindset. It's a little scary how easily I did that...bah. If nothing comes of last night, I think I'm gonna hurt myself for being such a sap. ~bangs head on keyboard~

And now I need to go start working on graduation announcement things. It's kinda scary...I only have 19 more days of high school left. And then...who knows what the hell I'm going to do.

--Angela

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