Dante walked into his house feeling like the most depressed, useless, and dejected person in the world. Dante had glided into school feeling relatively confident, as he walked up to Zoe Merlyn. He was going to ask Zoe to the prom. Dante stopped in front of her gray, worn out locker and asked,”Zoe will you go to prom with me.” Dante and Zoe had been friends for years, they had been on the same bus for the past 12 years and had been in the same classes all of middle school. So when she responded with a resounding, “No!” and walked away, Dante was left standing there; speechless. While Dante was quite glum after his morning rejection, he had heard from one of his friends that Abigail Reyes hadn’t been asked to prom yet, thus raising his spirits. He was …show more content…
His last chance of going with someone to prom had gone down the drain, all because of a lunch detention. He excused himself away from Ryan and headed for the bathrooms, when he reached the bathroom he got into a stall and threw up. He had never in all his life believed that he, Dante Quinn would be the only one at prom without a date. He got through the rest of the day not listening to a thing his teachers said (not like he ever did) and got on the bus. On the bus there was plenty of chatter of the night that we would never forget. When he got home, he walked up to his door and waved to his next door neighbor, Lucy who had Down syndrome. Lucy was in the 11th grade and has been Dante’s neighbor for almost 14 years now. While he lay on his bed sulking about the bed sulking and feeling as demoralized as ever. Then he thought of a superb idea. He could ask Lucy to the prom, it would hopefully make her really joyful. So he got out of bed darted downstairs and strolled up to Lucy’s door. He knocked twice on the large, chestnut door and waited. After a couple of seconds the door swung open and there was Lucy. They exchanged words and then