Tommy and Laura in Twilight with the Elder Gods

Tommy and Laura liked to think they were the "respected" type. They had saved the school from countless monster attacks and got to the literal bottom of the slime and pyramid situation that was resting under the school. However, this wasn't "really" the case at all, because despite the heroics, it had to kept secret for some asinine reason.

So despite all the work they had done, none of it was really known, and it made it ever so difficult to get a prom date.

Laura and Tommy were more or less social outcasts. Tommy didn't really like talking too much in a social setting and Laura, as outgoing as she was, had probably poisoned the well. Despite being admittedly quite a looker, she had dated a lot of people and as a result there was a bad air around her with the other students.

It hadn't been easy for Tommy to really get everything under control either. He still didn't have an answer for what happened to Coach Feratu. He wasn't SURE if there WAS an answer for what happened. The info Coach Feratu gave him was bunk, the arrow was too hot to touch before it turned into ash. A mystery without an clear path to an answer was already enough, but it was more stressful with schoolwork piling up at the end of the year in addition to all this monster hunting stuff going on, interfering with his life in ways he'd never wanted. Did he even have time to go to the prom? He laid back on the bed, his eyes lined with stress.

Tommy thought he was gonna get some sleep tonight, but he forgot that he was Laura’s friend. She called in the middle of the goddamn night.

"What do you want?" he grumbled as he picked up the phone.

Laura sighed. "The dumb prom thing. You got a date for that?"

"Man, I don't even know if I can GO-" Tommy started but paused. "What do you even want from me? Consolation?"

"...Something like that, yeah." Laura said.

"It's the middle of the night. We have this school thing tomorrow, if you've heard of that," Tommy grumbled. "Talk to me later about this."

Laura looked around in her dark room. "Fine."

"Alright, I'm gonna hang up the phone now." replied Tommy. He hung up, put the phone back on the nightstand and closed his eyes, attempting to get some sleep. Laura sat in her swivel chair next to her white desk, cluttered with years of paper and other crap, looking about the room alone in her black and white striped underwear. Everyone else was asleep.

Was she frustrated with the fact she would be alone? She never liked that feeling. The doors were feeling shut to her, and with her free time mostly dedicated to fighting monsters she hadn't had the time to get social. She desired company, someone to tell her she was at least worth something. But she had made her own bad decisions, and nobody confronted her about them so much as they just let her deal with them alone.

She tended to be self-deprecating when on her own. A feeling of being out of place instead of being within the world.

She still had Tommy, against all odds. She stood up and laid down on the bed, her blonde hair flowing against the pillows and blankets as she shut her eyes. He'd be willing to talk about whatever stupid bullshit she had to discuss.

It was a pretty average day.

Tommy was sitting at the table, alone as he usually did. Laura sat across from him. "Hey Tommy,” Laura said as she sat down, unpacking her blue lunch bag with little kitten shadows all over it. “What's up?” They sat at the lunch table far away from the rest of the high schoolers, alone as a duo.

"Not much," responded Tommy as he picked up the pasta noodles up with his plastic fork. "Hey, what stupid thing's going to happen today?"

"Hm?" asked Laura as she unlocked the lunch box.

"There's always some dumb thing happening that we gotta deal with because it's supernatural." said Tommy.

"Oh, like that monster on Valentine's Day." replied Laura, getting a tuna sandwich out from the lunch box.

"Yeah, exactly that," Tommy said, biting into the pasta noodles while mumbling. "Is Vanessa still dating that thing or-?"

"Hell if I know. I would think so. I mean…" she said, looking over at Vanessa who was eating alone. "...That thing probably satisfies her really well."

Tommy looked at her weirdly. "What…?"

"I mean come on, it's got tentacles, it's got goo, ignore the ugliness and it'd probably be a really good lay…" Laura said.

"Jeez, what do you seek in an ideal partner?" Tommy grimaced a little as he bit into the pasta.

Laura took a bite out of the tuna sandwich. "Truth be told, I don't really know anymore."

"Why is the goo a good thing for you?" Tommy asked, more out of curiosity.

"Remember the temple of slime stuff? Something just clicked with me for that." Laura said, reveling a bit in Tommy's reactions. It was true though.

"Alright, well, you have fun with that I guess." replied Tommy, drinking milk.

"You asked anyone out for the prom?" asked Laura, halfway through her sandwich.

"I just don't know if I can even go, to be honest." replied Tommy.

"Aw come on. You can't even use homework as an excuse this time." grumbled Laura.

"I just feel a little stressed… I guess? It is the end of the year but I just… mm, I'm not sure if I should go." replied Tommy.

"I'm gonna be there though." Laura said, putting her head on her hand.

"Yeah, so? We don't have to do everything together." replied Tommy.

"You shouldn't miss out on it though…" replied Laura.

"I'll go if someone asks me out, but otherwise…" replied Tommy, resting his head in his arms before suddenly readjusting. "And NO, you're not going to ask me out either. That goes without saying, I guess. But I don't want to do that, it'd be weird."

"Right," replied Laura. "Yeah, that'd be dumb as I said before." She bit into the last of the sandwich. The two finished up their meals.

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