Somehow
in all the excitement to tell you about everything that was happening
I forgot an entire love interest. The whole girl and her friends
actually. One of the perks of being a senior was that they had a new
batch of young and untainted women coming up who viewed us as older
wiser and possessing of cars, driver's licenses and money. Most of
the girls our age had already been picked over pretty well and
everybody knew who had dated whom and all the various details of
their love lives and other such gossip. With this new batch of girls
there was a group of friends who had quite a few cuties so my friend
Cole and I preformed a little joint maneuver to get two of them
separated from the pack. I was under the impression that these young
ladies would have a lot less self-esteem and therefore be much more
susceptible to suggestion. I asked the one of them I had singled out
to a dance, the cheapest of the year. It was called 'Recession'
reflect its inexpensive nature and the idea was to do everything on
the cheap. For our date we went up the canyon and climbed to the top
of very tall pine trees and tried to swing them far enough back and
forth to jump from tree to tree. I never worked up the courage but my
friend James pulled it off several times. I think mostly we just
watched him. We went dating, dinnering, dancing, good-timing and at
the end of the night I thought a little kissing would be a forgone
conclusion. That was because I was older and cute and had shown her
good time and she would do what I wanted I thought. I made my move
and she politely declined and said that she liked me as a friend but
she was not very interested in me romantically. What new devilry was
this? She was acting like a full-blown regular person with their own
tastes and interests, who knew? Cole was having a little more luck
with the girl he was perusing and I think they turned the corner into
kissing, borderline going out, when things came to an abrupt stop in
one of the funniest breakup stories I've ever heard. I don't want to
mess it up, so if you're reading this and you feel like it Cole, you
might want to tell your version in the comments.
