Okay, friends,
How many of you knew
what “Prom” was and didn’t tell me?!?!
Because a few weeks ago, Katie’s Brother had his prom, and it sounds like just about
the coolest thing ever invented in the history of ever! You get to get dressed
up in fancy clothes and eat yummy food and take pictures with your best friends
and go to a fancy place and eat MORE yummy food and dance!! Those are all of my
favorite things!
Well, since Katie’s Brother is a senior (which means he’ll
stop being in high school soon), this was his last prom, and Katie and Katie’s
Mom and Katie’s Dad wanted to make is special for him, so of course that means
I got to be a part of it! Me and Katie and Short Girl and all of Katie’s family
and a bunch of Katie’s Brother’s friends went to this cute little park
not-so-far away to take pictures. (Katie says it’s in Alexandria.) All the
girls had fancy fluffy dresses on, and the boys were wearing these things
called “tuxes.” (Katie says that girls like it when boys wear tuxes. Maybe I’ll get a tux someday, too!) Everyone
looked so nice. And aaaalllllllll their moms showed up and took soooooooo many
pictures, but it was okay, because everyone was excited and happy. They even
let ME take pictures with the pretty girls! 
Now, normally, I’m not so excited about MORE pictures
(because, let’s be real, Katie takes way too many pictures), but how often do
you get to be surrounded by so many pretty girls in fancy dresses? So, obviously I went for it! I also had a few
“photobombs,” which were apparently pretty funny. (I actually just learned what
a photobomb is while I was typing this, and now that Katie’s explained it to
me, it is funny.)
But my favorite part of taking prom pictures was when me,
Katie, and Short Girl had our own photoshoot. Short Girl called them our
“awkward family photos.” I don’t really know what she meant by that, but I do
know that it means I get to be part of a family. That’s the thing I noticed
most about Katie’s Brother’s prom group: they looked like a family. They were
all different colors and shapes, but they looked like they belonged together.
Katie was a senior in high school (so long ago—like 2 whole
years ago!), and she says that that's one of the coolest years of your life. You have a lot of freedom. It's scary, because everything you've ever known is changing all around you, but you compensate by spending time with your friends and driving with the all windows rolled down and the music blaring and staying up late to watch movies and play board games. Katie says senior year is all about making memories...because sometimes things change after high school. Sometimes you make new friends and start new little families (new little families with bears like me!). She says that can be really scary when it's happening but that senior year isn't that way at all. It's a little piece of perfect, and no matter what happens after high school, no one can take away all the fun of your senior year.
I definitely saw that with Katie's Brother and his friends. They were loving every last second of their senior year, and I'm really glad I got to be a part of their little piece of perfection that they'll remember forever.
~Trash Bear (and Katie)~
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