Coast City High Prom

[hopeburnsbright]

Avalon has never gone to one of these juvenile human dances, and consequently, he has no idea what to expect. No doubt things will be mortifying in some way that makes the Naltorian have to keep himself from hiding in a black hole just to avoid it all.

At least he has had good help - Henry was kind enough to help him find an attractive tux, though Ava would have rather not worn the confining suit. Still, it was a lovely silvery lavendar sort of color, more gray than anything, and looked smashing with his blue eyes and sun-bleached hair.

Standing in the living room, Ava looks up the stairs and calls "Hey guys, our ride is going to be here soon." to himself, he adds "How is it that I am the first one ready?"

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[spacerrogue]

She does find the shoes and is so going to regret them at a later point she thinks. After she gets them on and checks the dress and her hair a final time she steps out.

It's actually a very nice dark red dress.

"Okay. I'm sorry I'm the last one ready." She brushes her hands over it to make sure it's fine still. "We're ready to go, right?"

[lantern_kid]

Henry gives her a wolf-whistle. "Looking good, Sher!"

[healingbug]

"We all look good," Josh remarks, blushing as he does. He offers a hand to help Avalon up and nods. "I think we're good to go. Guys?"

[hopeburnsbright]

Taking Josh's hand to rise, Avalon brushes is hands down the front of s dove gray tux and grinned to his friends.

"So please remind me of the significance of going to this human ritual dance the last year of your four years in high school?" he asks, honestly curious. "Maybe you humans can explain it to Sher and I before the car gets here."

[spacerrogue]

"It would be nice. Is it a coming of age ritual," she asks.

"In my clan my Uncle tracked me down and had me go through a proving, I really do hope that we are not required to do ritual combat," she feels the need to add with a smile. The young Thanagarian looks down right entertained.

[kissmeandstopme]

St. Elias didn't have normal prom arrangements, so there were certain.. agreements elsewhere.

And Mandy was a little nervous about tonight as she touched down.

[sonoftheatom]

Meanwhile, over in Ivy Town, Dinadan checks his hair, double-checks that there aren't any holes in his chocolate brown suit with mandarin collar, and triple-checks the emergency kit stashed in his pocket. Then he grabs the box with the corsage in it off of his desk and dials the landline at the Jordan house.

Phone travel isn't the easiest, but it gets him where he needs to be pretty darn fast.

[healingbug]

Josh goes quiet to let Henry explain the prom. He doesn't get it much either. When the phone rings, he jumps. "I'll get that," he says, heading for the phone. Picing it up, Josh clears his throat.

"Hello, Jordan Residence. Josh speaking."

[lantern_kid]

Henry simultaneously goes for the door.

"Hey, Mandy!"

[kissmeandstopme]

Mandy smiles brightly. "Hi, Henry! Thanks for letting us meet here."

[sonoftheatom]

"Hi Josh, it's Dinadan," Dinadan says. "Could you set the phone down on the table and step away? I'm going to come through and I don't want to knock you over when you're probably dressed up already."

[healingbug]

"Hi, Din," Josh smiles. He gives a little laugh and looks around. "Thanks. C'mon through," he says, holding the phone away from himself due to the lack of table near that phone.

[sonoftheatom]

"On my way."

Dinadan waved his dad over to hang up the phone once he'd gone through and, securing his grip on the chemically-treated corsage box, shrank down, and hopped into his personal Phoneline Express.

Unfortunately, he kind of expected there to be a tabletop to land on at the end of that particular wild ride, not a fall toward the floor.

"Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!"

[healingbug]

Thankfully, Josh has some very quick reflexes. The phone gets dropped as the healer darts forward and puts a hand out to catch Din.

[kissmeandstopme]

"Oh gosh! Din, are you okay?" Mandy asks from the doorway.

[sonoftheatom]

"I'm cool," Dinadan answers from the safety of Josh's hands, waiting for his heart to stop hammering in his chest before he starts fiddling with the switches on his belt. Luckily, he hadn't crushed the corsage box.

[kissmeandstopme]

Mandy actually blushed -- yeah, Sapphire training doesn't breed the ability out of you or anything. Not even with the bikinis. "Good. You look...really nice."

[healingbug]

Josh very carefully hangs the phone back up on the wall, keep an eye on Din with his powers to make sure he's okay.

[spacerrogue]

Sher can't help the way her mouth quirks. "We ever gonna get that explanation?"

Okay so she thought she shouldn't speak up. They were having a moment, right? But seriously she still wants to know why they had this whole prom thing. It was weird.

[sonoftheatom]

"Thanks Mandy, you look great too," Dinadan says. He holds out the box with the corsage in it. "Uh, this is for you too."

He blinks in surprise at Sher's question and glances around worriedly "Explanation? For what?"

What did he miss?

[kissmeandstopme]

Mandy takes the flowers and practically glows. "Oh, it's lovely."

She smiles at Sher. "It's an American adolescent rite of passage. It plays into both relationship rituals and to feed into the need of certain teenagers, stereotypically among females, for a little formal finery now and again. All the more prominent since America doesn't have as many debutante balls anymore."

[spacerrogue]

She looks very puzzled still.

"I'm not entirely sure what a debutante is but I suppose this is somewhat similar a proving," she says with a light shrug. "Only difference is less blood and more layers of clothing."

[sonoftheatom]

Dinadan beams at Mandy's smile, then quickly begins brushing imaginary dust off his suit before Henry can start teasing him about the expression he's wearing. He chuckles a bit at Sher's response to Mandy's explanation.

"You have no idea how often I end up saying that whenever I explain just about anything I do up here to my friends back home," he says.