I'll Be The Barbie to Your Ken (Jack)

[Elisia Lark]

Today's the dance, and you have a date. An actual date. One that isn't just going with you because they feel sorry for you and your awkwardness, but rather because he actually wants to go with you. So why are you still freaking out? Oh yeah because you're looking at yourself in the mirror in your Evening gown Barbie costume and realizing that where she is stacked with a perfect hourglass figure, you look like a twelve year old boy with no boobs and no butt. Fantastic.

Ellie twirled one of her curls around her finger as she stared at the mirror and frowned. What was she doing? She didn't go to dances. And if she did, she didn't dance. She was a wallflower, the person that stood back and watched everyone enjoy themselves, people watching at its finest. But she couldn't do that this year, oh no. She was going with her...uhm...boyfriend? Oh heck if she knew. She wanted to be boyfriend and girlfriend again, honestly, but wasn't a little too fast? She just screwed over a different relationship what a month ago? Maybe she should do just what she told Carter she was going to do. Give up on boys because clearly she was not cut out for this whole relationship thing.

But then she thought back, back to the conversation she had with Jack just before he asked her to the dance. If she started getting in over her head, she could talk to him. She trusted him, didn't she? Of course, how could she not? Her nerves started waning and she took a deep breath to shoo them away. This was Jack, the boy that she developed her first crush on. Her first boyfriend. Clearly there was something there that made her want him back even if she knew it was a bad idea. She trusted him and she really cared about him. He made her disregard the fact that she had the body of a twelve year old boy, he made her feel better about herself. He made her stop comparing herself to every other girl she saw.

Elisia looked down at the text from Adrianna and sighed, she wanted a picture. Of course. Her teeth gnawed on her lower lip and she positioned the phone away from her so that Adrianna would get the full picture. After sending it, she looked up at the clock on her bedside table. Just a few more minutes until she had to meet with Jack. Her phone buzzed rather quickly and she tapped on the screen to see what Adrian would say. And of course, she was just being nice. Lookin' hot girly, hope you have a great time. Tell that boy to keep his hands to himself or I'll cut them off. Love you xoxo. Still, it made Ellie relax and she smiled. Showtime.

She was supposed to meet Jack on the bottom floor so they could walk to the Auditorium together and so she slipped out of her room, making sure the coast was clear and headed downstairs, fiddling idly the entire time. When she finally made it to the bottom common area, she looked around and bit her lips. Luckily most people were already headed to the auditorium and she didn't have to worry about them all staring at her.

[Jack Montoya]

Hey good lookin'! Jack mentally greeted himself, allowing himself a large goofy grin as he stood in front of a dorm room mirror. He looked pretty ridiculous, well, from the normal things he was use to wearing. The aussie had found himself in grey slacks, black dress shoes, a gaudy orange shirt, a grey suit jacket, and just to add onto it all, he hooked a pair of one of his favorite weird party glasses into his shirt. Mia and Blaire were pretty much instrumental in helping him find the most tacky pieces of clothing to mix, and yet still hold a semblance of looking fashionable. It really was a fun time though, getting everything ready for the big night. he was going to the dance with a very lovely lady after all, and he had to be the Ken doll to her Barbie. 

The phone that he had always kept in his pocket rumbled in the jeans he had carelessly left on the floor. Wow, he almost forgot those in there. Quickly the teen moved over to his discarded pair of pants and fished out the phone, a text from his big sister lit up the screen. She had gone home earlier, back to her apartment. While she had helped  him with most of his outfit, she hadn't seen the final pieces come together. Like the shades, the hair, and of course, his perfected 'ken' poses. Unable to wipe the grin off of his face, Jack took a step back, moved into one of his robotic poses, and snapped a quick picture. He sent it to Blaire within five seconds, and decided to put it up on Facebook as well, cause why not? 

That was when he noticed the time, only a few minutes until he was suppose to be at Elisia's dorm door. "Ah! Well I gotta go pick up my date guys! See you at the dance!" The careless call into a room of girls getting ready for a dance was probably never even picked up, as Jack moved out the door. 

Once in the hall, he saw what he expected to see, people in various stages of their costume either moving from one dorm to the other, or fully dressed people getting ready to go to the dance. Honestly, without a barbie at his side, Jack looked sort of like a weird Australian james bond, with a nose fore clashing colors. The thought only made his laugh as the teen made his way down the hall, toward Ellie's door. He knocked, and she answered. The girl inside looked different from the girl he had only seen yesterday in school. Blonde hair, pink and black dress, but still the same smile. "Hey beautiful. Ready to go?" Holding his arm out, bent in the classic Ken design, he waited for Ellie to hook her arm into his own. 

[Elisia Lark]

Elisia couldn't breathe as she waited for him. Whether it was from the dress being too tight (in order to make it actually look like she had boobs) or because she was freaking herself out, she wasn't sure. Either way, she figured it was probably not good. She felt like there was something cutting off her airway, the closer it came to the time of him picking her up and walking with her to the dance. Barbie and Ken. Right. Well it was no doubt that he would look amazing as always, a perfect Ken doll, but she wasn't so sure she was ready to show off her dress and the Barbie facade that she had to put on. She was supposed to be confident right? Barbie was all about the perfect self-image. Too bad she didn't really have that.

There was a knock on the door and she took a deep breath before walking out to the common room and opening the door. On the other side of the door, stood a very well-dressed (for Ken) boy with a perfect smile that was looking at her. She bit her lip and smiled back at him. How had she managed to land him again? It was a miracle. Absolute miracle. Elisia was really trying to hold herself back from tackling him to the ground in a hug because she just really loved being close to him. Of course that would be a little much though, so she settled for taking his arm and leaning into him. "You look perfect," She said with a bright smile up at him.

She couldn't believe that she was actually going to a dance with a date. A real date. This was so unlike her, but at the same time, she couldn't say that she was nervous anymore. Now that she had him, she felt really comfortable. It was going to be a great night filled with dancing and fun. She just hoped she didn't make a fool of herself or something because that would definitely ruin the experience. And she really hoped that she didn't run into Zac, though that was shoved to the back of her mind.

For now, all she was going to do was look at him and appraise just how hot he was. Like seriously, dang. Ellie hugged his arm as they walked and was really surprised at how quickly she got the hang of walking in these freakishly high heels. She was pretty close to being just as tall as he was.

[Jack Montoya]

Jack couldn't speak for Ellie, but the teen had a certain spring in his step as he walked with Ellie to the dance. He was happy to be with her. It was surprising, how a simple bump into each other had turned around in such a good way. Things had pretty much gone full circle, at least in Jack's mindset, from the first time they had met each other all those months ago. They could have dated over the summer, but Jack and Blaire had gone back to Australia anyway, and maybe Ellie needed time on her own to find out what she wanted. Jack just hoped that he was what she wanted. He wasn't really sure what he had really connected them in such a way, but the way she did things, the way she laughed, the way she sang, it was all a drug that the teen couldn't get enough of.

She had said that he looked perfect, and that had only added to the confidence Jack felt as he strode along with Ellie hooked to his arm. He felt good, and if there would be black lights at the dance, he was confident that he would look like a glowing carrot wearing a grew suit, the thought made his goofy grin ever wider. The clacking over Ellie's heels were the only thing the couple listened to as they walked, that was until Jack spoke, after a small admiring whistle. "Wow, the fact that you can walk in those without me having to catch you is amazing Ell's. I don't know how you do it." It was pretty impressive to say the least.

"Just saying, if you feel like falling, I am here to catch you." Another goofy play on words, but he felt excited tonight, he felt good.

[Elisia Lark]

If Ellie could have a pep in her step, she would, but in these heels, it probably was best that she didn't skip around too much. That'd be a good way to hurt her ankle and ruin her night. No one wanted that to happen because it just wouldn't be any fun then. But she was very happy to be spending tonight with him. She had missed him in the time that they were apart, furious with herself for being so stupid. Yes, she found someone that she thought she was more compatible with, but the truth was, things just never worked out the way she expected. Most of the time it was her own fault though. In her and Jack's case, it had definitely been her fault. Ending things so early on, how could she know what she was getting herself into? She didn't, yet she never gave it a chance enough to figure things out. And then he went away for the whole summer and she tried her hardest to forget about what there had been and what there hadn't been when things were broken off.

Goes to show how well that worked after one run-in resulted in a kiss. And then another meetup resulting in kissing and crying again. And then he asked her out. Man, she had been a goner since she saw him that first time. He was such a great guy, she didn't understand how she managed to think otherwise. They meshed well together, both in love with music, each with their own uncertainties about things. She found herself thinking back often to when he showed her what his ability was. He'd been so insecure then and it was the one time she thought that he understood how she often felt in her own, human skin. Constantly unsure of herself and how to hold her awkward body in a way that seemed confident.

Right now, in this dress and these heels, she supposed she really should have felt more gangly, but that wasn't the case now that she had Jack keeping her steady. She smirked at his compliment and shrugged lightly, "It's really not too difficult, as long as you step with your heel first and don't try the whole walking on your toes thing that people think they have to do when wearing heels." If that made any sense.

His play on words made her smile and she bit her lower lip, "Don't tempt me too much, I might just end up falling on purpose then." Elisia blushed and had to admit, she felt good for being such an inexperienced wallflower. "Are you excited?" She asked curiously.