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  they would
  have progressed to the first-kiss stage. i smiled to myself, pleased.
  angela assively happy to be going to the da really
  ied iried to get her to fess who her type was,
  but i ih a question about dresses after a bit, to spare
  her. aeful glance my way.
  peles was a beautiful little tourist trap, much more polished and
  quaint than forks. but jessigela khey didn't
  plaime ouresque boardwalk by the bay. jess drove
  straight to the o store in toas a few streets
  in from the bay area's visitor-friendly face.
  the dance was billed as semiformal, a exactly sure what that
  meant. both jessigela seemed surprised and almost disbelieving
  when i told them i'd o a dan phoenix.
  ”didn't yo with a boyfriehing?” jess asked dubiously
  as we walked through the front doors of the store.
  ”really,” i tried to ot wanting to y dang
  problems. ”i've never had a boyfriend close. i didn't go out
  much.”
  ”why not?” jessided.
  ”no one asked me,” i aly.
  she looked skeptical. ”people ask you out here,” she reminded me, ”and
  you tell them he juniors' seow, sg the
  racks for dress-up clothes.
  ”well, except fela amely.
  ”excuse me?” i gasped. ”what did you say?”
  ”tyler told everyoaking you to prom,” jessie with
  suspicious eyes.
  ”he said what?” i sounded like i was g.
  ”i told you it wasn't true,” angela murmured to jessica.
  i was silent, still lost in shock that was quiing to irritation.
  but we had found the dress raoork to do.
  ”that's why laure like you,” jessica giggled ed
  through the clothes.
  i grouh. ”do you think that if i rah my truck he
  would stop feeling guilty about the at? that he might give up on
  making amends and call it even?”
  ”maybe,” jess snickered. '”if that's why he's doing this.”
  the dress sele't large, but both of them fouhings to
  try on. i sat on a low chair just ihe dressing room, by the
  three-way mirr to ing.
  jess was torwo — one a long, strapless, basiumber,
  the other a kh electric blue with spaghetti straps. i enced
  her to go with the blue; why not play up the eyes? angela chose a pale
  pi draped arouall frame nid brought out honey
  ti brown hair. i eh generously and
  helped by returs to their racks. the whole process was
  much shorter ahan similar trips i'd take home.
  i guess there was something to be said for limited choices.
  we headed over to shoes and accessories. while they tried things on i
  merely watd critiqued, o shop for myself, though
  i did need he girls'-night high was wearing off in the wake
  of my ayler, leaving rloom to move ba.
  ”angela?” i bega, while she was trying on a pair of pink
  strappy heels — she was overjoyed to have a date tall enough that she
  ch heels at all.
  jessica had drifted to the jewelry d we were alone.
  ”yes?” she held her leg out, twistio get a better view of
  the shoe.
  i ed out. ”i like those.”
  ”i think i'll get them — though they'll g but the one
  dress,” she mused.
  ”oh, go ahead — they're on sale,” i enced. she smiled, putting the
  lid ba a box that ore practig off-white shoes.
  i tried again. ”um, angela…” she looked up curiously.
  ”is it normal for the… s” — i kept my eyes oo be
  out of school a lot?” i failed miserably io sound
  nont.
  ”yes, wheher is good they