Time You Thief

It's empty this gym. The bleachers are pushed in for the basketball practice that will take place later in the evening. The walls are decorated with various sports achievements that have been won since the school was created.

The decorations are missing. Where are the white lights and tinsel and Christmas trees? It's the week the annual semiformal should be held.

Oh right. That tradition is over. This is the wrong place.

It's like a still video replaying in your head.

Click click. Your high heels make the sound. They're your sister's shoes from graduation. Those wonderful black high heels that made you feet feel pretty.

And you have fifteen minutes to get on the dress and the make up, but your hair is still being curled by your mom.

Finally, you put on a dash of that on your eyelids and maybe a little too much of that on your lips.

But it doesn't matter when you put on the dress that took you so long to find. It's short like the dresses that are in style, and you kind of want to twirl around in it because it's the kind of dress that would flow. The silver sequins add good contrast to the deep navy blue that it is.

Although navy blue isn't really your color, you're glad you went with color because from experience you know just how many girls are wearing black ones.

And you jump into your crowd and everyone fangirls just how hot everyone looks.

The gym has it's dazzling Christmas lights and DJ. It's crowded with estatic people from those for schools. Most of them you don't know, but they are in your territory tonight. This is your night.

You dance along to the fast pace jams, and dance with boys on the slow songs. (though, remember you had to leave enough room for the Holy Ghost). Not once do you not smile, even though you're plagued with braces.

An unforgettable night that you'd never take back. It's locked away in a vault of precious memories that time would wish it could steal.

And it almost does when you're standing in this new gym.

And though you have lost most of what made those memories so great, you still remember.

Then you smile but the gym is empty and your heart heavy.