Chapter 2: Prom
Four of us ended up going to the prom together. This was the big one, not counting the graduation prom next June, but for now, this semester, the Homecoming prom was the event of the season. Van, Ada, Annabelle, and I decided to all go together. Nobody was sure who was going with whom. Van said he wanted to wear the new dress their mother bought Ada, but Ada loved it too much to trade. Ada’s dress was long and bright blue and slinky. Mine was much younger looking, next to hers, sort of a dusty rose and elegant only in its simplicity and lines. My sister was going with a senior, Mark Adstrom, who was on the varsity and on the student government panel, and had passed all Dad’s rigorous questions. She was wearing a traditional pink frilled thing with lace overlay. Annabelle d
