The Boy Next Door

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It has been weeks of studying and catching up on all the schoolwork we have missed.

The boys have their final championship basketball game tonight. It's their biggest one of the season.

Ace's parents and Leah came down to watch him play tonight. They have been doing that more, being in his life.

I'm scared for Ace today because everyone is counting on him to win. Well, they are depending on everyone but maybe him more than others.

"Raise your hand if you're nervous." All the girl's hands shoot in the air.

"Hey, our boyfriends are competing in the biggest game yet," Alexis says.

To answer all your questions. Yes, it's true that Alexis and Blake are dating. They settled their arguing problems and worked everything out. He asked her to be his girlfriend while we were in Scotland, but she didn't tell us a week after we got home from the trip.

"Don't remind me that I'm single," Gracie says.

"Whatever now I have a proposition to make," Alexis says. She cleared her throat as she got ready to say her idea. "I think that if the boys win me and Mia should ask them to prom. If not, then we cannot bring it up until they say something about it."

"Okay," I say.

Me and Ace already had a conversation about prom and unfortunately, it's gonna happen a couple of days after graduation which means that he won't be able to attend prom. It hurt knowing that he wouldn't be there, It's also been my dream to go to prom since it will be my last one. I never went last year because I didn't feel like going but this year with Ace. This is the year I wanted to go.

"Deal."

"Great now let's start getting ready, enough couple talk," Gracie says.
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We get to the school and there are cars parked everywhere, on the street, on the grass, and even across the road from the school.

"It's gonna take us years to find a spot," Gracie whines.

We keep driving up and down different rows until we find one. It is tight but at least it's a spot.

We enter the school and it is buzzing with students, teachers, parents, and people from different schools.

"Look there are the boys," Alexis says.

We run up to your boys and wish them good luck. I give Ace a kiss and he heads back inside the gym for warm-ups.

"Okay, I will find us some seats. Who wants to go get snacks?"

Gracie volunteers to get snacks and Alexis comes with me to get seated.

"I think Blake saved us a spot," she says.

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, he told me he put down a blue blanket, so people wouldn't sit there."

We spot a medium-length blue banket right behind where their team is sitting.