Photo Courtesy of Jean L Hayes
Hi all. This week was a struggle and I nearly gave up, but here is my entry for Friday Fictioneers!
Only two days until prom, and decorating is underway.
Molten glue drips onto my finger, welding another button to my skin instead of the heart shaped wire frame.
Alex glances over and I quickly turn my head away, feeling every blood vessel in my cheeks dilate.
God, what is wrong with me? A question all my friends must be asking as they avoid me, like love sickness might be catching. It’s torture, this guessing game of what’s possible and what’s likely and what I want and what will actually happen.
Nothing is happening, I think, as he steps towards me.
To Be A Magician 
Oh you left me there in the end… I hope the right thing will happen.
That’s the peril of 100 word stories!
That step towards her seems like a good sign 🙂
I don’t think she dares hope!
Dear MKZ,
I hope his approach bodes well for her. I could feel the hot glue. Very well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thanks Rochelle,
Glue guns are a fantastic invention, though. I wonder who came up with them? 😉
Lauren
I feel pretty sure something is happening
I still remember those heart in mouth moments!
A bit of a cliff hanger…
I’m biased but I think it will end well.
Good. Perhaps a date to the prom in the deal?
Ha, I remember the feeling 🙂
It was the best worst feeling!
Hopefully the step is for the good! 😀
What can I say, I’m a bit of a sucker for happy endings.
Ah, this took me straight back to my teenage self. I only saw a good outcome from that final line – but then I’m a bit of a romantic. 🙂
Susan A Eames at
Travel, Fiction and Photos
I’m exactly the same. The alternative is just too painful!
I like the way you’ve written your story in the present tense. That adds drama to the anticipation aroused by your cliff-hanger. Good writing! (I agree with Susan – a good outcome is likely!)
Thanks Penny! I think I read somewhere that a lot of younger writers tend to write in 1st person and that it’s lazy and unimaginative… But I disagree. 😊
You brought back all the magic of those encounters. Well done.
Thanks Sandra – So brilliant you can forget how horrible the lead up can be, like a real illness!
Think positively and pucker up – your luck is about to change!
Here’s my story!
I think she might have a dance partner for prom.
Oh boy, did that ever bring back some memories. The hopeless crush I had on Someone, who ended up wanting to talk to me about whether or not I thought my best friend would go out with him. I can smile now, but back then it was torture. You’ve captured that here.
I still remember all the Kelly Clarkson songs I cried to when that happened to me! 😂
Ha! I was a few generations before Kelly. More like Pat Boone, Perry Como, and Connie Francis.
Wow! I’m breathless, what a brilliant tale, glad you didn’t hand in the towel!
I’m glad too! It was a real pain, I deleted more than I wrote, and it’s especially difficult to be objective when that happens, so I’m glad you enjoyed it.
I try to keep as much as I can, most of my FF are more streams of consciousness, most are complete nonsense too, but i try to make them funny. I love the FF, and would feel slightly weird if I didn’t complete it every week, I think i’ve missed one in 18 months or more, all are based around bastardised children stories or characters.
The magic of young love – the agony and bliss it can bring. I’m ever the romantic so I shall wish for a good continuation
Too much guessing and too much pressure. Why not take the first step and ask Alex?