#flame 2

Significance:

first kiss, first time getting dumped

learned humility

Story:

I met her in the same class as Silvia. We remained acquaintances until junior year, where we shared a social studies class with a certain Mr. Henderson. We soon became close friends. I would tease her about the guy who was into her. He was a year younger but had a hairline and a weak chin that made him look like george washington.

We entered the nerf gun assassin game together. We lost.

That summer we hung out a few times. Bounced on her trampoline, played with her ferret and she made me crepes and we scared neighborhood kids with halloween masks.

Senior year, we shared a biology class together. Laura and her friend, a short, animated, enthusiastic latina named Roberta were my lab partners. One day, I had lost my phone and Laura was helping me find it. She insisted that I come up to her dance practice room. As I opened the door, music was playing and the whole dance team was holding up lettered signs that spelled out “SADIES?” I said yes and hugged her. Took me totally by suprise. But she didnt have my phone.

The next couple weeks, I never asked if we were going as friends or something more. We went shopping for costumes with her best friend, marie and her date jordan. They were much more physical and flirty than we were.

At sadies, we still didnt know to be platonic or otherwise. Under some sort of unspoken agreement, we got “married”. That small peck at the alter, was my first kiss.

Being married at sadies meant we had to hold hands for the entire night, else get flagged down by “sheriffs" and do "jail-time". It was exceptionally cold so to ward off frostbite, we held hands in my jacket pocket. Some sheriffs misinterpreted this as not holding hands and swept us off away to jail.

Jail was standing on a park bench and kissing for a set amount of time. At that point I was just getting over a cold and was probably still super germy. I forgot that for those 15 seconds and decided to try my hand at making out. I of course had zero idea of what to do so I just wormed my tounge into her mouth and left it there for 11 of those 15 seconds. We held hands but barely spoke after. Even on the hayride where everyone made out in the dark, we just stared out into the night. She of course got sick a few days later and told me through a facebook message that she just wanted to be friends.

At the morning after a friend’s party, I woke up and and heard a phone buzz and reached for it. New text message from Laura: "Good morning :)”

It wasnt my phone. It was George Washington’s.

Overcome with stupid teenager hormones I went on a subtweeting rampage. It was ugly. I came to when she tweeted out “just stop”

The next day at school my usual space next to her was taken and we didnt talk. We were still lab partners so I had to interact with Roberta as a proxy to complete the classwork. This carried on for a month. I can still hear Roberta looking at us with the saddest puppy dog eyes and saying “come on you guyyyyys”

Roberta was right. It was stupid and pretty soon I was going to be going to california so I wanted to fix things and leave on a good note. I did. Slowly but surely we started talking again. And then I left.

Story part 2:

After I got back from california, I got invited to a party, Laura and Marie were there. It was fun, I ended up DJing. Then I noticed her getting more drunk and disappear. She got back like 20 minutes later crying. Turns out she just lost her virginity out on the grass of some park nearby. She didnt even know the guy. George Washington was there too but it wasnt him. It was some junior. The party winded down. Me, Laura, Marie and George Washington were crashing. (GW really had no reason to be there, he didnt drink or smoke.) George washington and the 2 girls in a bed, me in a armchair. Eventually Marie relocated to the bathroom. I couldnt sleep so I went to the bed. Me and Laura held hands for a while and she still had bouts of crying. I slept for a couple hours and woke up to GW and Laura making out. I lied there watching the light change colors with the sunrise. I left without a word. Later that day she texted me that she didnt even want to make out with him.

Epilogue:

A year later: Laura went to college and went to jail for a week as an accessory to theft and destruction of property.

Marie didnt talk to Laura for a long while because she didnt approve of Laura’s canadian bf. They recently started talking to each other again.

Roberta had a kid.

Mr Henderson was arrested and convicted of stalking a minor after he sent dick picks to a student’s phone.