A Pact to Go to the Prom Leads to a Walk Down the Aisle Amy Larko and Blake Falanga knew they had each other if neither was dating anyone else when their senior dance arrived. They have been best friends since seventh grade. Credit...Alex Marquardt/Alexandra Lee Photography By Rosalie R. Radomsky May 7, 2021 Amy Katherine Larko and Blake Falanga, best friends since seventh grade, made a pact in 2011, the beginning of senior year at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill. If neither was seeing anyone seriously they would go to the senior prom together. “I met a girl today,” Mr. Falanga told his mother four years earlier after junior high school one day. “Her name is Amy.”