16-years-old; May 5th 2001; Spring Fling
THE WEEK BEFORE- This was my first "girl's choice" dance. I immediately left it up to my friends to pick me a date. (Because, of course, I couldn't handle these decisions on my own.) It came down to either Christian or The Honeyman. I emailed Christian and asked if he would be willing to be a contender. He agreed so my friends chose him. I again emailed him to let him know. I never said what we were doing nor what time we'd pick him up, 'cause I'm dumb like that.
SATURDAY- Reba and I got in her huge 13? 15? passenger van (The Beast). It was time to pick up Christian. I was nervous out of my head and asked Reba to just drop me off back home. She refused. I insisted she accompany me to the door. She finally gave in and came with me. After getting Christian I jumped in the front seat (avoiding the glares Reba was shooting in my direction.) I could barely handle walking to the door, how was I supposed to handle sitting next to him??? Then we picked up her date, Dustin. He got the front seat...I was shoved (mentally, by Reba) in the back next to Christian. We had to have then picked up Nikki & Skylar and Sarah (not Sarah-my-best-friend) & Jason, but I don't remember it at all.
We got to my house and went into the basement. There were two couches and a chair. Reba & Dustin sat on one couch, Sarah & Jason on another, Skylar sat by Sarah-with Nikki sitting at his feet. I immediately sat on the chair, Christian sat on the floor on the other side of the room.
We watched UHF and ate pizza (I guess one of the other girls was on top of that, because I don't remember who ordered nor when.)
About five minutes til the end of the movie, I ran upstairs to change into a skirt. My friend, Nicky, was getting baptized that afternoon and had invited me to come. The other girls already knew about this, and were OK with me leaving. So I came back downstairs and explained to the group that I was leaving and I'd see them later that night. They dropped me off at Nicky's church.
Afterward I was getting a ride back to my house from my friend, Suzannah (Suzy), when we saw The Beast drive past. She asked me if I wanted her to follow it, I said yes, I might as well catch up with them so I can talk and de-stress with Reba. So we tried to follow The Beast. It got away from us at one point, so I suggested we head over to Nikki's house, because that's where they seemed to have been heading. We turned into Nikki's cul de sac and there was The Beast in her driveway. Yay! So Suzy dropped me off right there. I ran up to Reba's driverside window and excitedly told her all about Nicky's baptism and who was there. She told me to get in the car, so I did. DUSTIN AND CHRISTIAN WERE STILL THERE. Huh? Ok, I thought (because that is what was mentioned during the planning of the day) that the other girls would just drop off the guys right after they dropped me off! I had absolutely no idea they were going to traipse around the city for two more hours!!! It turned out they had gone to a city park and hung around there. I felt really bad because I had ditched Christian far longer than I had meant to. I intended only the ride back to his house!
We dropped the guys off at their houses, promising to return at 6:00 p.m.
At 6:15 Reba and I were standing on my front lawn, annoyed at The Beast. It wouldn’t start, we were stuck.
About twenty minutes later the engine finally turned over. We picked up Christian first, and Reba demanded I go by myself. All I said when he came to the door was, “Hi, we’re late, I know. It wasn’t my fault.” In fact, that’s practically all I said the entire day.
When we got to my house Sarah was there with Jason, but Nikki and Skylar still needed to be picked up. Reba and Sarah left with their dates to pick them up. ...Leaving me alone with Christian, on purpose, jerks.
I set out all the ingredients for tacos that my mother had cut up for me earlier in the day. Nikki, Reba, and Sarah got back with their dates and we had dinner outside on my deck. Then we took pictures of eachother and left for the dance at about 9:30.
The dance was fun and no traumatic experiences happened. The last song was SClub7’s “Never Had a Dream Come True” (not sure why I remember that, but I do, obviously.) While we were dancing Christian said twice, “I’ve had a lot of fun. Thank you for inviting me.” I felt bad. He’s sweet, and I’ve been a jerk. Lovely.
After the dance Christian and I got in Reba’s car, waiting for her and Dustin to get there. I was wearing purple metallic jeans. Christian said, “I like these.” and briefly put his hand on my leg. (“Aaaaaah! He’s touched me! Aaaaaah!!!”) Reba and Dustin finally got there and we left to drop Christian off. When we got to his house I very reluctantly walked with him to his door. Reba starting trying to turn the car so the headlights were on us, but she was having difficulties (‘cause it’s such a freakin’ huge car!) I only went up two of the three steps, and was watching Reba’s attempt to turn the car. Christian said, “Can I have a hug?” and took my hand and guided me up the last step then hugged me. (“Aaaaah, he’s touching me! Aaaaaah!”) While saying goodbye I attempted to be funny and said something dumb, so I felt like an idiot and quickly retreated to the emotional comfort of the backseat of The Beast.
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