I dropped a shit load of acid at a bernie rally in like 2016 and at one point he mentions trump so everyone boos, and I forget about the rally and im like Wtf is that noise? So I turn around and just see a gigantic crowd of people booing me
Ollie and Molly were lying on Molly’s bed in her bedroom. She was lying on top of Ollie as he held her close to him. They were contentedly watching random videos on her tablet. Neither of them really paid attention to the videos as they were simply enjoying being close together.
Molly’s explore page was filled with the occasional memes or videos for charity that would pop up. Usually, Molly never paid much attention to the kinds of posts or videos that would appear on her explorer page, unlike today, when a certain video seemed to have caught Ollie’s eye.
Molly watched as Ollie’s thumb backtracked to a specific video. It was a promposal. The video began with a girl entering the cafeteria. As she walked in, music started playing from the speakers, and a line of people was standing in front of her, each person holding a flower. As the girl walked by, she was given a flower until she had a bouquet. There were two boys at the end of a line. One of them was holding a sign saying, “Will you be my Princess at Prom?” While the other boy was down on one knee with a box containing a tiara ring in his hands. The girl was beaming happily, nodding her head excitedly. The boy, presumably her boyfriend, put the ring on her finger and stood up to hug the girl. As they hugged and kissed, the crowd around them started cheering. The video ended with a lot of yelling and cheering.
Instead of continuing to scroll once the video kept replaying, Ollie’s thumb remained in its place to hold his phone. This time, when the video played again, Molly watched Ollie’s reaction.
His eyes were captivated by the screen, a gleam of happiness in his pretty brown eyes. His smile seemed to grow as the video got to its end for the second time. Molly resisted the urge to poke Ollie in the cheek at how cute he looked.
“Oh? You like this sorta stuff.” Molly curiously asked Ollie, turning her attention away from the video.
“Yeah…” Ollie shyly admitted. His cheeks were pink as he avoided Molly’s gaze, “I uh…think it's cute.”
“Hm…” Molly hummed in agreement. This time, she paid closer attention to the video as Ollie let it play again.
It was at that very moment that Molly decided she was going to prompose to Ollie.
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A few days later, Molly was hanging out with Libby and Scratch, and Ollie had to help his parents out with something that day, so he couldn’t hang out that day.
They were watching the latest Country Pumpkin film when Molly casually said, “I want to ask Ollie to the prom.”
Scratch paused mid-bite of his popcorn, “What?”
Both Libby and Scratch were looking at Molly, waiting for her to repeat what she said.
“I…uh want to ask Ollie to prom,” she repeated much more shyly now that both Libby and Scratch were staring at her.
“Yes!!!” Libby cheered excitedly, “More material for the Mmmm-Ollie book.” Libby quickly pulled out a notebook and started scribbling things down.
“Okay, okay, let me get this right,” Scratch pondered, rubbing his chin. “You want to prompose to Swoopy Hair?”
Molly nodded her head.
“Do you want to do it like how we helped you ask him out?” Libby looked up from her note-taking to ask.
“Oh, Gourd no.” Molly shook her head, remembering how that disaster went and how Ollie thought she was trying to tell him she hated him.
“So, how do you wanna do it, Molls?” Scratch asked.
Molly walked over to the vision board that she still had after all of these years. “I don’t know. I would rather not do it in front of the whole school, especially with how excited everyone got when Ollie and I went to the Brighton Bop together. I kinda would like it just to be the two of us,” she wrung her hands together nervously.
“You don’t want us around?” Libby asked.
“Hey! I’m a ghost, I shouldn’t count.” Scratched huffed dramatically.
“As much as I love you both, I want this to be special, y’know? Like a special forever memory just for us,” she blushed, pushing her index fingers together.
Libby and Scratch exchanged a brief look before Libby started scrolling intensely on her phone, with Scratch looking over her shoulder.
“We’re looking up some ideas for your promposal,” Scratch responded, keeping his eyes trained on Libby’s phone as if it were obvious.
Molly’s face broke out into a giant grin as she glomped her best friends into a hug. “Oh!! I love you guys.”
By the end of the day, the three of them have decided on the perfect promposal for Molly to ask Ollie to the prom. It was a super simple idea, but it was also romantic and cheesy, which fit the couple to a T. They knew for a fact they could all pull it off without a hitch.
Since Ollie wasn’t going to be coming over until tomorrow evening, the ghost friends minus Ollie had all day to prepare carefully.
Later that night, Molly fell asleep giddy with excitement and nervous for tomorrow.
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They were all on their way back to Molly’s house after going to the store and gathering all the material they needed. Molly was nervously playing with her skirt as they got closer to her house.
“You okay?” Libby asked.
“Yeah,” Molly breathed, “I’m just nervous.”
Scratch chortled. “Don’t be,” he says. “Swoopy Hair loves you a lot and is head over heels for you; he’s gonna love what you are doing for him.”
“You think so?”
“We know so,” Libby responded confidently.
Molly smiles slightly at her best friend's words before she shifts her eyes to the rose in her hands.
I really hope Ollie will love this, she thinks to herself.
When they got to the McGee home, the plan was put into motion. Libby and Scratch, along with the help of Pete and Sharon, moved the furniture around to make room for Molly’s display. Once the area was cleared, they all began opening the candles and laying them out.
After she tried on several dresses and outfit combos and rearranged the candles multiple times, everything was finally ready.
“Good luck, Molly,” Sharon said as she brushed any dirt off her shoulders before she left for her date.
“Thanks, Mom,” she says with a warm smile as she gives both of her parents a big hug.
Once her mom left, Molly went to the bathroom to look at herself one last time. Her mom chose a light purple dress that went to her knees. Her mom had helped put her hair into a more put-together ponytail.
As she stared at her reflection, she realized that she looked different. She didn’t look bad because her mom had pulled out all of the stops for this. In a way, she didn’t feel like she was looking at herself. In the mirror, she saw a better version of herself. She saw a well-dressed, slightly more confident person than she was usually. She was amazed at how different she looked and hoped Ollie would think she looked good, too.
Taking one last look in the mirror, Molly headed out to the living room to see what they had accomplished.
“Who are you and what have you done with Molly?” Scratch teased.
“Molly, you look fantastic!” Libby exclaimed.
Sharon had to console her husband, who had started sobbing and blubbering over his daughter. “Ollie’s going to pass out when he sees you,” Sharon said with a proud smile.
Molly blushed at her friends and family's words as she asked, “So, did you guys do it?”
Libby flipped the lights off, and Molly quickly scanned the room to see what they had all done.
In the center of the living room were a million mini candles spelling out the word ‘PROM?’ with a heart outlined in candles under it. Along with a few fairy string lights dangling overhead for added effect.
“Do you like it?” Pete finally stopped crying over his teenage daughter.
“It’s perfect,” she breathed in awe.
The group all cheered in relief, and Molly couldn’t help but smile at their excited reactions. In their mini celebration, Molly felt her phone vibrate She saw a text from Ollie that said, ‘I’ll be there in a sec.’
“He’s on his way,” Molly stated. Her family, plus Libby’s, smiles widened in excitement.
Her family and friends all filed out of the home, wishing her good luck as they all gave Molly the space she needed to ask Ollie to the prom.
Molly chose to sit cross-legged on the floor as she waited for Ollie to come over. She played with the flowers by passing them back and forth between her hands in an attempt to calm her nerves down.
Finally, after what felt like an agonizing couple of minutes she heard the faint sound of knocking on the door before the door opened and she heard him call out, “I’m here,” before he turned around and started taking his coat off.
Molly was frozen in place. Her heart rate was racing and her palms were getting sweaty. Her breath was caught in her throat and all she could do was wait for Ollie to acknowledge her.
She watched as Ollie shimmied out of his coat and hung it on the coat hangers. Once he dropped it, he turned around, and his eyes locked with Molly’s.
Ollie’s face quickly turned into a full-blown smile, and seeing it gave Molly the confidence boost she needed.
She smiled back at Ollie and said, “Ollie Chen, will you go to Prom with me?”
Molly could hear her heart beating out of her chest; everything felt like it was slowing down as she waited for Ollie’s answer.
“Yes!!” Ollie yelled as he ran up to Molly, enveloping her into a hug.
At that moment, Molly dropped the flowers on the floor, away from the multiple burning candles, as she embraced her boyfriend.
The hug felt like it lasted forever until Molly felt wetness on her shirt. She immediately pulled back to look at Ollie’s crying face.
“Hey…Hey,” she said softly, “What’s wrong?”
Ollie sniffled as his lips turned into a smile. “Nothing’s wrong, I just…” He paused to run his hands through his bangs before they landed on her hips and stayed there.
Molly gently brushed Ollie’s tears away with her thumbs.
“No one’s ever done anything this sweet for me before,” Ollie admitted, ducking his head to the floor shyly.
Molly smiled at her lovely boyfriend, tilted his chin up, and pulled him in for a soft kiss.
When she pulled away, she rested her forehead against Ollie’s and, with her eyes still closed, she said, “You’re the man of my dreams, I’ll do anything for you.”
Ollie drew Molly into another kiss, and she could feel Ollie’s smile against her lips.
They stayed wrapped up in each other’s arms for a couple of more minutes before they let go of one another to text their families and take pictures of the promposal.
“Thank you,” Ollie whispers as he wraps his arms around Molly’s body after they step outside together.
“For what?” Molly asked in genuine confusion.
“ For being you,” Ollie simply responded, squeezing her hand.
“Well, I want you to be happy,” Molly earnestly replied before wrapping her arms around him affectionately.
Ollie giggled as he buried his head on top of hers, hiding his face, his hair softly tickling Molly’s skin.
Before parting ways, a thought occurred in Molly’s mind. “Hey,” she said to grab Ollie’s attention.
“Hm?”
“If I didn’t ask you to prom, would you have asked me?”
“Of course,” Ollie giggled. “I was actually starting to plan my promposal to you before my family, and I went out of town earlier.”
“Really?” Molly asked, pulling away from Ollie to look at him clearly as if to check to see if her boyfriend was lying.
‘Yeah,” Ollie affirmed.
“What did you have planned?” Molly asked
“Nothing big yet, just a few ideas, but it probably wouldn’t have been as good as yours.”
Molly blushed for the millionth time today before she buried her head into Ollie’s chest again to hide her red face.
“I can’t wait for prom,” Ollie mumbled into her hair.
do you edit the vibe reports by yourself? if you do what app do you use?
JF: just chop it up on iMovie. I had Final Cut Pro for a while but they actually put in so many features it was getting a bit tricky to push things out on it. (Although much better resolution)
