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Prom Loser | 2.22.01
I remember last year, while most of my friends were at the Junior Prom, I was at home watching television wondering what the majority of my friends were doing. Loser? I guess you can probably say that, but don't say that I didn't try. My first choice was this nice sophomore girl from the church. She was a very cute girl and she always had me thinking how nice the prom picture would look because she was short and that would make me look considerably tall. Well, I asked her appropriately on Valentine's Day and her response was positive. The only problem was that her parents wouldn't let her go. I was fairly disappointed because I thought that this prom deal would be an easy process. There was this other girl from another town who I asked. I had only met her once but we talked from time to time and I remembered her as a pretty girl. Well, she was either busy or just didn't want to go with me - the answer was a sorry kind of no. She had some other plans for that day. The last girl who I asked was actually someone I really wanted to go with. We went to the same school and we were in the same grade. We talked often on-line and I probably had a little thing for her then. Well, she never showed any interest in me and I don't even know why I asked. My friends suggested I ask her so I gave it a shot. Being the coward that I was, I had to ask her over the IM. PtKx83: Hey, will you go to the prom with me? Well, as you can guess, the answer was a sure "no." Of course, this was the last girl I was going to ask, so I asked again - "no." - and again - "no." - and a few more times until I finally got the idea that this girl would rather stay home from the prom than go with me. She did exactly that and ended up going with a senior to the Senior Prom. I wasn't devasted or angered by the total rejection; I actually expected it. I took it light-heartedly and made myself a broken record player. Well, it's near the end of February and that means the prom buzz descends once again; this time, I'm a senior and it'll be my last chance to go to a prom unless I want to be a sicko and come back next year from college to go to a high school prom. Not likely. I decided to skip over any cute girls from church (I don't even go there anymore anyways) or any girls I've only seen once in my life. Ever since she said no to me multiple times, I thought that I would have a shot at her as a senior. I actually picked a pretty stupid time to ask her to the prom, not even an hour after I got dumped by my girlfriend. And what's even more pathetic was the fact that I was on the phone with her and I asked by typing it into the IM (we were also on-line at the same time). Well, her friend was on her computer, so the friend jokingly wrote "yes" and got me all excited, but she quickly killed my joy by saying it was retarded of me to ask her so soon. I thought she meant "no" by that so I told her I was sorry and cried myself to sleep. Just kidding - I didn't cry myself to sleep; I just shook my head at myself a few times and told myself not to do anything stupid like that again. A few days later, I wrote on my AIM info a message to a friend telling him that we ought to go fishing because we had no prom dates. She saw that and asked if I didn't want to go with her anymore. I told her I still wanted to go with her. Taking the hint, I asked if I could count on her to be my prom date. Do you smell the happy ending? She finally learned to reply with a three-letter word and to top it off, she told me she was only doing it out of pity. The only strange thing is that we've done this all by text on-line and have yet to mention the word "prom" or "us" in person. Maybe I should go do that soon before this whole thing I just wrote is some dream I had and it never really happened - that would totally suck. But for the moment being, because I'm pretty sure all this stuff really happened, I've got a date to the Senior Prom. So I guess I can escape that "Loser" label this time. |
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