“If someone laughs, I’m haunting them forever.”
He cracked a small smile. “Good.”
Melissa insisted on coming.
She said she “wanted to see the disaster in person.”
I even overheard her on the phone earlier saying, “Come early. You need to witness this.”
When we arrived at prom, she was already standing near the back with her phone ready.
But something strange happened.
No one laughed.
People stared, but not the way Melissa expected.
One girl from choir said, “Wait… is your dress denim?”
Another asked, “Where did you buy that?”
A teacher walked up and touched the fabric.