For most seniors, prom comes with the usual question of who to take. For Reeyan Mistry, the answer reached back years.

At The Westwood School in Addison, a small private school with 17 seniors, 12 girls and 5 boys, prom carries extra weight. Head of School Heather Lourcey joked that the girls “run things.”

Mistry said prom marks “the last event you are going to be at with these people.” But for him, choosing who to bring became deeply personal.

“Taking the people I wanna take is going to be a little more emotional,” said Reeyan.

That choice was tied to a promise he made as a child to his family, that he would one day take them to prom. His mother, Trisha Mistry, said he repeated it long before he understood what it would mean.

“He would tell them, ‘I’ll take you to prom. Don’t worry about it. I’ll take you to prom,” said Reeyan’s mom, Trisha Mistry.

Years later, he kept that promise by deciding to take his two grandmothers to prom.

The women, known in the family as Ba and Ma, helped raise his parents and played a major role in his upbringing.

“He’s not only raised by me, he’s raised by a village. The days I couldn’t watch them, [his grandmas] were there,” said Trisha.

For both grandmothers, it will be their first prom. Reeyan’s grandmothers are from South Africa and India.

Mistry said he knows bringing his grandmothers to a high school prom is not a typical choice, but for him it is simple.

“If I get grief, I get grief. I’m having fun with my grandmas. This is my way of expressing my gratitude for everything my grandmas did for me,” he said.

“It’s great that somebody thinks that way. We definitely could use more Reeyans,” said Lourcey.

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