22nd November 2014
Matt: Afternoon, beautiful.
Matt: What color is your dress?
Anah: I’m not wearing a dress.
Matt: No, your dress for the Ball.
Anah: I have to get a dress?
Matt: What else were you gonna wear?
Anah: I don’t know. Jeans and a t-shirt?
Matt: Seriously?
Anah: I’m not a dress person.
Matt: I don’t know why I try sometimes…
Anah: I was just messing around. Of course I know I need to get a dress…
Anah: I just haven’t gotten around to it yet.
Matt: Why not? You’ve had a week.
Anah: I know… I’m just putting it off.
Matt: Why? Are you having second thoughts?
Anah: No, I’m not.
Anah: I just hate shopping, that’s all.
Matt: You hate shopping? I thought girls love to shop.
Anah: Well, I think we’ve already established I’m not your average kind of girl.
Matt: Yeah, there is that I guess.
Anah: I’ll get a dress, I swear.
Matt: You better had… my mom keeps nagging me about getting a tux.
Anah: Then just get one.
Matt: I need to know what color.
Anah: Black?
Matt: Will it match the dress that you currently don’t have?
Anah: Does it have to match my dress?
Matt: Yes.
Anah: Oh…
Matt: Just let me know what color the dress is and then I can get my tux.
Anah: I like blue, so my dress will probably be blue… or something with blue in it.
Matt: So… a navy tux?
Anah: *shrug* Why not.
Matt: Yeah, I’m gonna wait until you get your dress.
Matt: Whenever that will be.
Anah: Very funny.
Anah: Eden says she’s gonna take me shopping on Thursday after school.
Matt: Why Thursday?
Anah: Because Jake has a game on Thursday.
Matt: Doesn’t Eden want to watch him play?
Anah: My sister doesn’t do ice hockey…
Matt: Not even for her boyfriend?
Anah: Not even if she was offered a billion dollars.
Anah: She hates the rink… it gets too cold, apparently.
Matt: Well, it is ice hockey.
Anah: Hey, it’s not me you need to explain it to.
Matt: I know… but I’m not gonna explain it to Eden. She can be really intimidating.
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Short StoryWhen Anah Miller, agony aunt to the whole of Hastings Academy, replies to Clueless and Useless' e-mail about his unrequited love, little does she know that's she's opened Pandora's Box. A few days later, when she receives a text from an unknown numb...