Double Dribbling III

Did Mickey say the Hilton on South Beach or the one in downtown? 

Does it start at 7pm? 8pm?  

What time did he say he would be picking me up?

Prom dresses sparkle in my Aunt Ally’s kitchen.  They dangle where the pots should be.  And multi-colored wigs dance on Styrofoam heads.  I can still be Katy Perry if I want.  But the pink wig can be made straight and almost long with a flat iron and it feels more real to me than my own hair.  I race upstairs, the ends of the wig stick out from beneath a pillow, and when I smooth out the fluff, the girl on the wrong side of things disappears.  And she keeps disappearing until I forget all of her mistakes and even who she is.

I message “Y” to Julio and we text late at night after everyone else has gone to bed.  I imagine he smells of cigarettes.

TommyHilfiger: U prom.  Really?

Grizeldasgirl: Y.

TommyHilfiger: Sneak.

But I don’t know if Julio means he’s happy for me about the prom, and I don’t tell him Mickey asked me.