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Welcome to this week's Romance/Love Newsletter! My name is Crys-not really here . This week's newsletter is all about junior high dances, and how a girl's imagination runs wild when slow-dancing with a boy. |
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Recently, I had the unique opportunity of attending a small dance for teenagers with special needs. There were designated areas for eating and dancing, and a live band (the high school jazz ensemble) played a mix of songs that ranged from the “High School Musical” soundtrack to the Beetles. Standing there watching those kids dance around and act all silly, I couldn’t help but to be transported back to junior high, when monthly dances in the gym were the place to be.
Do you remember the feeling of dancing with a boy or girl for the first time? Mine was with Kevin Kasun, and it took place at the Halloween dance in 7th grade. I was unpopular as could be, a loner and a wallflower. I was wearing a long, black dress, because somehow I got the idea that it was a costume dance, and I wanted to look like a witch. I was sitting against the wall, watching everyone else dance a slow dance, when Kevin came up to me and held out his hand to help me up. “Do you wanna dance?” he asked. Of course, I said yes.
I knew that Kevin was only asking me to be nice, but somewhere, deep inside me, I fell in love with him a little. It was my first crush of many throughout junior high and high school.
Girls are funny that way. Out there on the dance floor, with a spotlight shining, a sappy song that makes all the girls cry booming out of the speakers, girls start to think silly thoughts. I have no idea if guys think them too, but I know for a fact many girls do. Junior high dances are the first place where girls actually get permission to be closer to guys than normal. Even in my school, where PDA’s were a strict no-no, girls would stand just a little closer to the boys, pressing their luck. For me, it was enough to have a guy’s hands on my hips, and my arms around his neck. If I was lucky, he smelled good, too. The experience made me dizzy, like I was floating about the earth, and when the dance was over, I almost always had the feeling like I liked the guy a little bit more than before.
That’s exactly what happened to some teens at this dance. After slow dancing with a girl I’ll call “Kelly,” Johnny approached me all freaked out because Kelly wanted to be his girlfriend. The two had never expressed any interest in each other before, so I smiled and nodded knowingly.
“Sometimes,” I said “girls just start thinking silly things when they slow dance with boys.”
Johnny insisted he wasn’t ready for a girlfriend, and after that, Kelly was crestfallen for the rest of the dance.
When I was in 9th grade, I almost had my first kiss during the social. I wanted to kiss him, and I almost did. With an instrumental version of “How Do I Live?” playing around us, during the last dance of the night, it felt like the perfect time. But I was too chicken, and he didn’t have any interest in me. (I should have learned that when he pretended like he never got the note I gave him asking him to go to the dance with me.)
Looking back at it now, it’s all okay. Those magical dances are fond memories of a time when love meant hormones going wild and silly, unrealistic expectations dancing around in my head. My real first kiss didn’t take place in a magical location, but you know what? It was meant to be. And I have those junior high dances to thank for showing me that. |
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