I was alone for junior prom so I know the whole shpeel blah blah blah you don't NEED anyone to have fun, just have fun with your friends, you're gonna have a great night etc, but I got a bit of a circumstance.

You see I followed that advice last and it turned out great, because I ended up getting asked out. Well, now that I'm a senior, I can't be asked out after prom (bc what are we gonna do? date for a week?) and I have 0 chance or hope of anything romantic happening. I struggle and I keep imagining some beautiful romantic evening even though it's impossible, and even if it wasn't it would be so incredibly impractical and short lived. I'm out of hope. I can't top junior year. I can't make senior prom feel like a big deal to myself.

Yes, I have friends, but we've grown apart a bit and they have their own dates. Of course I'm gonna hang around and dance and have some fun but there's nothing BIG - not big enough to fill what I've built up in my head from last year, when I was under the impression that I'd stay with the guy who asked me out after prom.

How do I make the evening feel special and worth it? I feel like no matter what I do I will feel like I'm missing something. This is supposed to be what my social life in high school built up to, but now I feel as if I've wasted my time getting close to the wrong people and not getting close enough to the right people. This is the end, there's nowhere to progress, and I'm stuck in something less than my ideal.

TLDR: Was alone for junior prom and ended up getting asked out, and I'm now alone for Senior Prom. Without a real or possible long term relationship, I have a problem with making prom feel like a big deal. How do I get myself to be as happy as I thought I would be?