Chapter 6: The Prom Evening

The Prom evening was two weeks after the start of school. On the Prom evening the contestant pairs had to join the best pair competition, where all of the participants would vote for the Prom Queen and King. Eve and I greeted each other in the school as if we had not already dated. Everybody saw our love story was over. I think she believed I would be alone and I would get a little humiliation from her. I was sure this was Bret Tyminsky's plan for revenge on me. But they did not know anything about Kate Kalina or that my beautiful private student stepsister would be my partner.

My friends Frank, Billy and Sam had partners from other classes, they met them on the soccer training. They felt sorry for me because it was an open secret about my breakup with Eve. They had girlfriends for the Prom. They were yet virgins and they believed I was, too. Sam told us, laughing as an interesting thing, that his dad, Mr. George Whiteside, the local Sheriff, asked for almost all of the Sheriff's office staff to work on the Prom evening. Last year and the previous year only the normal police service was at the Prom evenings.

A strange boy, Jimmy Lang, was in the class of Eve and Bret and was in a sad emotional state for months from refusal of the girls and Bret bullying him a little. I mentioned earlier Bret did not become an all school bully, but he had a wrong effect on some of his classmates and Jimmy was one of them. I think the idea to humiliate me originated from Jimmy's sad emotional state. Bret and Eve wanted for me to be in similar sadness for the last half-year as Jimmy's. I understood Bret's vengeance but Eve's was a mystery to me. Bret and Eve kept their affair in the dark and others only knew that Eve and I had not already been an item. They disclosed their love connection to everybody two days before the Prom. I was not really interested in Eve and Bret at all, but I wanted to surprise them that their plan would go awry. We prepared ourselves to go for Saturday evening.

My friends believed I was in a sad emotional state and I was looking for a little loneliness to cure my disappointment, so nobody organized any common program with me. My friends had girlfriends for the Prom and they spent the time with their sweethearts. I did not talk about Kate to them. Naturally Becky was silent about Kate, too. Moreover, the school's leaders did not mention to others that Kate would be at the Prom. We prepared our surprise for Bret and Eve. My friends and Eve knew I had a stepsister, but her participation in the Prom was secret.

Kate and I planned to enter the competition for Prom King and Queen, although we did not think we would get any good rank on it, because nobody knew Kate here. I had been popular since the bully taming action, but Kate was unknown. Bret and Eve also did not think to win the competition, because of her surprising breakup with me. But they believed they could humiliate me with a long sad love disappointment, if I went to the Prom. They thought perhaps I would not even go over there at all.

After getting ready, I went to dad's house, where Kate had dressed up and she did not worry to have wrinkly clothes because she ran to hug me. She was breathtakingly beautiful in it. She was able to dance very well in her neat dress. We kissed a while. Dad and Natalia praised us that we were a good pair and they wished good luck to us. I took Kate in my car to the Prom. One of the school guards and two lower grade students, a girl and a boy, were at the reception. We brought our two invitation cards to enter. The invitation card contained a tear-off ballot for the best pair competition.

We showed our invitation cards at the entry and Kate and I joined the competition for Prom King and Queen at the PC scanner and we got a number. The vote was at another PC scanner, where the PC prevented the couples from voting to themselves. We would write the number of the best couple according to us in the ballot, but a bar-code annulled any votes for ourselves. Kate was unknown here except for some teachers who were the participants of Kate's examination committee and the Principal. We went into the cloakroom and took off our coats.

We entered the ball room. I took Kate with me to introduce her to my friends. About half of the students had arrived at the Prom and Kate attracted the admiring eyes of the boys and the envious glances of the girls. Kate came with me to show everyone that she belonged to me. We went through the big ballroom and we saw our names with our number among other pairs on the projector. Bret and Eva were not here yet. They planned a theatrical entrance for me.

My three friends were with their girlfriends in a group over there and I introduced Kate to them. They were delighted by the beauty of Kate and they could see we were lovers. They were surprised that I came with such a stunning beautiful girl. We talked about nothing and I looked at the projector for newer participants in the competition. Bret and Eve were on the projector because they arrived and we had fifteen minutes to the opening of the Prom. The organizers were the teachers, the Principal, the security staff and some one year younger students who were with us. Sandwiches and soft drinks were at the bar and we were with our friends and their girlfriends. My friends were glad that I was with a stunning beautiful girl instead of love disappointment.

Kate took me to the entrance of the ballroom hand in hand and she said, "A little surprise for Eve and Bret."

Instead of Eva and Bret, this poor bastard Jimmy Lang entered into the ballroom and his coat was swollen out a little. He did not go to the cloakroom. This was not too special some classmates came to the ballroom in coat first, before using the cloakroom, to greet others. However, Kate changed her calm behavior and I felt a strange muscle tension in her hand. Kate released my hand and stepped forward and to the side quickly. I will remember the next seconds until my death.

Kate stepped aside from me slowly and she was between Jimmy and me. Jimmy took an automatic weapon a Kel-Tec KSG 12 from his coat and he wanted to begin the massacre with me. I saw in flashes Kate ran with a supersonic speed to Jimmy and first she hit his weapon from his arms and the first bullet went above my head to the opposite wall near to the ceiling. Jimmy could not shoot more, because Kate broke his both arms in a flash and she knocked him back onto the ground. Bret and Eve entered into the ballroom and they saw everything. Kate threw the weapon sideways. The whole event was so quick, that the pain arrived from his broken arms in Jimmy's brain and he began to shout, when Kate knelt on his chest.

Kate looked around and she said loudly, "If somebody wants to injure my boyfriend I'll kick his ass!"

I ran to help Kate, but it was completely unnecessary. She dominated the situation perfectly. The guards ran to us, but their duty was to gather the automatic weapon and to ask for Kate to hand over the wailing Jimmy.

How could Jimmy come with this weapon? When he entered at the reception, the guard turned sideways to answer a mobile call and the two young receptionists did not recognize the danger. Jimmy prepared himself for the massacre and he lost a lot of weight from his fat body in the last two months. He sewed a special holder on his coat from canvas to conceal and to carry this weapon. After the reception, he went straight to the ballroom. He admitted this later. Sam's father told his son who further told me. He would have better lost that little weight for finding a girlfriend.

Sam phoned his dad and others phoned the 911 and Sam's dad had been right to place the enhanced Police presence, and some policemen arrived soon and the ambulance was there, too. The guards handed over Jimmy to the ambulance. They took Jimmy to the hospital with a Police escort. Police arrested him, but first his broken arms had to be treated. The whole Prom started to go to a catastrophic end.

Sam's dad the Sheriff, arrived and he began to take action. He looked at the videos of the security cameras and listened to Kate and me and then other witnesses. Everybody was in shock and believed in the end of the Prom. However, Sam's dad consulted with the Principal and some teachers and they called Kate and me.

Mr. Whiteside looked at us, "Ben and Kate, if my son had not been on this Prom here I'd stop the event. But the Principal and I came up with the following idea."

After the Sheriff, Mr. Kaminsky said, "I'll announce soon that the event will begin after 15 minutes. The Police will get the bullet evidence off the wall tomorrow, so we can start the Prom. But the Prom start will be the Sheriff's and my thanks to you. I'll announce you're participants of the competition for the King and Queen. Could you acknowledge our gratitude on the podium for salvaging this event?"

Kate responded first, "I'm a guest here, Ben has any right to decide," and she gave a kiss on my cheek, surprising the two men.

They looked at me, "Yes, we'll do it, but I've a condition," I stated firmly.

Mr. Kaminsky and Mr. Whiteside said, at the same time, "What?!"

"All right, we'll stand up to the podium, but I'd like to thank my beautiful girlfriend that she saved my life."

The Principal asked, "Why is a problem?"

I replied, "I want to kiss her on the podium in front of the crowd for more than a minute long!"

Kate hit me with her elbow and giggled softly.

The Sheriff looked smiling at the Principal, "Is this an obstacle?"

Mr. Kaminsky began to laugh a little, "All righ, t I consent to your plan, but I've a condition, too."

Now Kate and I wondered, "What?!"

The Principal explained, "Before your long kiss, I want to hug your girlfriend on the podium for having saved you, a lot of potential victims and the event. Moreover, I want to hold hands with you. Would you mind allowing these to me?"