A teen in Pennsylvania wanted nothing more than to attend prom with a very memorable date: Miss America. 

Patrick Farves, 18, of Central York High School asked Miss America, Nina Davuluri, 24, to his prom Thursday night. He asked her by giving her a flower in an auditorium filled with fellow students. 

But he didn't get a "yes" from Davuluri. Instead, he received a three-day suspension for "deliberately defying" school administrators' requests to not ask the question after they had learned about the premeditated stunt.

"At that point in time, it was 10 minutes before the presentation, and I was pretty much set to do it," he told the York Dispatch. "I was a little pressured. Everybody expected me to do it. I'm the kind of person who, if someone says I won't do something, I'll prove people wrong. I will."

At the end of the Davuluri's question-and-answer session, the student asked the beauty queen to attend prom with him. She laughed at the unexpected question, and Farves ran up to the stage. He handed her a plastic flower he had bought for her, and asked her to take a picture with him. 

"Maybe later," she said. 

As he walked away from the stage, he did a little dance to express his happiness.

The crowd cheered and got louder when the person asking the next question said in to the mic, "Let's give a hand to my friend, Patrick Farves."

The clowning student was then pulled out of the assembly and was given three days of in-school suspension for defying administrators. 

He later apologized to administrators by writing a letter to the district's assistant superintendent that he is sorry for causing a disruption. 

"I do understand why the administration was mad," he told the Dispatch. "I don't want to be the kind of person to try to justify myself ... I didn't intend to disrespect the administration. I can see how it was seen as a slap in the face."

Hundreds of students thought the punishment was unfair, and it even sparked a #freepatty hastag on Twitter. 

Farves said he is still allowed to go to prom, but not with Davuluri. 

While administrators were not amused, Davuluri apparently believed the stunt was "cute," according to a friend of Farves who was working behind the scenes at the event. 

"I want to give a shout out to Miss America for being a good sport," Farves said.