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The specific obstacles in place are:

a.) one of the heroine's friends has a huge crush on her and she's spent the whole book avoiding the necessity of telling him that they're not really dating and she's not really into him
b.) her love interest recently broke up with her boyfriend, who is one of the heroine's best friends and has spent the past several weeks extremely and possibly dangerously Not Okay About It and asking [heroine] to put in good words for him to see if he and [love interest] can reconcile
c.) the heroine has spent the entire book angry at her friends for an incident of bad behavior towards [love interest] but, like, on principle! ON PRINCIPLE. IT'S A PRINCIPLE
d.) the entire book is about complicated, changing friendship dynamics, and the triumphant getting together at prom, where everybody involved in Situations A, B, and C is definitely present, IS DEFINITELY GOING TO CHANGE THOSE DYNAMICS

(I do believe, anecdotally, that some people enjoy promposals and find them cute and enjoyable and relationship-affirming, much as I believe, anecdotally, that some people enjoy elaborate public proposals; I just never want to be confronted with one in any capacity!)