as they arrived at the mall they met the other girls in the food court , they were all shopping for dresses for the dance , they entered a fancy store , all the other girls flocked to the racks going through all the dresses , mia was very petite she confessed to selah that she was going with cody smith , she had been crushing hard on him since the beginning of junior high , they had been getting closer , he had asked her to go steady around christmas time , and mia had been overjoyed .