Maxis Taste Dare #20: Prom Time!
I randomly stuck the kids in Veronaville for the shoot. I'm not 100% that all my choices here are cricket, but hopefully it'll still be fun, even if I failed the dare.
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She first saw him from across the room. A strange, quiet boy no one else seemed to notice. She couldn’t tell you why she did, aside from him looking as out of place as she felt.
He wasn’t like other boys.
For the first time, it was like someone finally got her: the inanity of high school, the frustratingly normal little sister, and the thirst for something deeper in a too mundane existence.
His chaste touches were a revelation; a far cry from the jocks who pawed at her. “Spooky freak” or no, she was too beautiful for the mundanes to ignore.
She couldn’t fight how he made her feel. Maybe there was something to the insipid idea of soul mates. Despite herself she suspected she would never love anyone else the way she would love this strange, wonderful boy.
And she would do whatever it took to find out.
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So here's my take on Olive Muenda (eventually Spectre) and Grim at prom. :D