Even though I didn't have many friends in Santaquin when we all got
transplanted to another town a little bit of shared experience
camaraderie sprang up and if we were all not bosom buddies we were
all more or less on the same team. When one of the cute girls from
Santaquin decided to run for some sort of student government position
many of us were on board with helping her. I, like most of the boys
our age from Santaquin had always had a semi to full blown crush on
this girl so I thought helping her might just get me in the door. It
didn't. I worked really hard on making and putting up posters. As was
my nature I made posters with my other naughty friend from Santaquin
that were copied from the Simpsons that said 'SEX!' in large font and
underneath that it said, 'Now that we have your attention vote for
Amy.' We put them up and lots of people thought that they were really
funny. Unfortunately for us most of those people were fellow students
and not the teachers and administration. They called in our friend
and told her to take down all of the offending posters. I felt sick
with anxiety when she tearfully told me what had happened. I was
trying to help and I had got her in trouble. So after that I just
laid low and thought that I would be forgotten. The last thing the
campaign had to do was to make a video to play over the closed
circuit television system. In the video she went over the regular
why you should vote for her stuff and then in the end she thanked the
four or five friends that helped her on the campaign. I hadn't helped
out after the 'SEX!' poster but She unexpectedly thanked me publicly
over the TV which meant she was thinking of me and was publicly
willing to admit I was her friend which would not have been the case
a few years before. I made me want to cry for some reason and I sat
there in class trying to keep it together while everyone turned in
their desks to find me after my name was mentioned. Someone asked me
a question that required some answer and I just inappropriately
nodded because that is all I could do without crying. The girl lost
the election but from then on we were pretty good friends until she
broke up with me for someone else and then we were better friends.
