Prom was so much better than Kim had ever imagined it would be.

Jess had forgiven her for not telling her she’d gotten back together with Teddy, no one was staring at her or gossiping about her anymore, and finally, there were no Teddy Bears or Team Kims or HeartBeats or Anti-KaTs. There was just Kim and Teddy and the rest of the senior class, dancing together and taking pictures and unable to believe that in a few weeks, they’d all be in different places.

“Teddy!” Kim exclaimed, stopping in her tracks in the middle of the last slow dance of the night, lifting her head up off of his chest like she’d been shocked. She couldn’t believe she’d forgotten, but in all the breakup and makeup madness, not to mention all the prom excitement, somehow, it had totally slipped her mind. “College!” she cried.

“Um … yes? College? I’m sorry, I don’t follow.” His adorable nose wrinkled with confusion. Kim bopped it playfully, just because she could.

“You must have decided where you were going. I did.”

“I did, too.” Teddy’s eyes widened with delight. “This means we can tell each other where we’re going finally, right? I picked—”

“Wait!” Kim clapped a hand over his mouth. “This is a big moment. We need to make it a big moment. Let me get my planner.”

“Kim, you don’t need your planner to make something a big moment. Also, you have to be the only person in the history of time who brought a planner to prom.”

“You never know when you might have to schedule something.” She grabbed ahold of Teddy’s hand. “Come on!”

Hand in hand, they wove their way through the dancing couples, running toward the chair in the HeartBeats quadrant where Kim had stashed her purse. Eagerly, she pulled out her planner and two of her favorite pens, the Uni-ball ones with gel ink that always wrote so smoothly. She tore two pieces of paper out of the Notes section in the back and handed Teddy a piece of paper and a pen.

“Write where you’re going to school,” she said. “And on the count of three, we’ll show each other.”

“Kim—”

“Please?” she wheedled.

“Okay, okay.” He scribbled something quickly as Kim neatly wrote the name of her school, wondering if they’d end up anywhere near each other. Wondering what would happen if they hadn’t. “Ready?” Teddy asked. Kim nodded. “Okay. Here we go. One … two … three.”

Heart hammering in her chest, Kim flipped her paper over. She looked at Teddy’s paper and gasped. Stunned, she heard her pen clatter to the floor and watched her paper drift slowly away.

“You’re kidding, Junior.” Teddy laughed, and the sound made Kim so happy she worried she might burst. He was looking at her like she was his favorite thing, his absolute favorite thing in the whole world, and she knew she was looking at him exactly the same way. “I can’t believe it.” He laughed again, shaking his head, his dark hair flopping in front of his eyes in a way that was so familiar, it made her fall in love with him all over again.

“I can believe it.” She reached up to smooth Teddy’s hair away from his face and kissed him quickly, before Mr. Rizzo could give them a demerit for PDA. “Some things are just meant to be.”