Most embarrassing moment concerning a guy. . .
It’s been a while since I was a teen, but the other day a blog by another writer got me to thinking about the highs and lows of my own experience during those turbulent years, especially when it came to boys.
Unfortunately, I didn’t know all that many. I went to one of those private, all girl schools filmmakers like to depict in teen angst movies. If you think Mean Girls was exaggerating things about nasty young women – nope, they had it all wrong – the HS I went to was way worse.
Because I wasn’t one of the cool kids, I kind of faded into the background, glad I wasn’t noticed or picked on. I had outlets – mainly dancing, because at the time I wanted to become a professional dancer. So, after school and on weekends, I immersed myself in ballet and jazz. Trouble was, the girls in my dance class were a lot like the ones at my HS – too cool to be believed. They wore makeup and had been in and out of more intense relationships than Paris Hilton. I admired them greatly.
And that’s where my downfall came, which led to my most embarrassing moment concerning a guy. These two girls in my Saturday morning class were talking about the boys they were going out with that night. One of the girls looked at me (like I was a specimen on a slide in biology class) and said in a very sweet voice, “And who are you going out with tonight, Tina?” Her tone said she knew I wasn’t going out with anyone.
I figured I could confirm her suspicions and say I didn’t know any guys – unlike her, I went to a freaking all girl HS. Not wanting to be less-than-cool, I lied and told her and the other girl that I was going out with so-and-so. Now, it so happens so-and-so was a real guy who happened to date one of the really popular girls in my HS. I’d seen him when he picked her up after classes. To my sixteen-year-old mind he was better looking than anyone on TV or in the movies and I figured if I was gonna lie, I’d lie big. Besides, his name popped into my head and so I just went with the flow.
That’s when the bottom fell out of my world. The two girls looked at each other and then they both said, “No, you’re not. He’s dating (the girl from my HS).”
I felt the blood drain from my face. They knew her? They knew him? Yep. It so happened they were all friends who lived in the same neighborhood. I wanted to die. I wanted to evaporate and die. How I got through that dance class, I’ll never know, but when it was over I ran from the studio. I was terrified to go to school the next Monday, thinking they told the girl about my lie concerning so-and-so.
To my surprise, nothing happened. The girl didn’t give me a second glance, which was normal in my world. The week went by without incident. I thought I was safe.
Sure. On Saturday, when I showed up for my next dance class, there were the two girls, along with the one from my HS and so-and-so, the guy of my dreams. He looked at me as if I was something stuck to his shoe. And then they all laughed.
How I made it through that moment and the rest of the day, I’ll never know. I did learn a valuable lesson though. From that moment on, whenever cool kids asked me something personal that I knew would come back to bite me, I told them they wouldn’t be interested in my answer and to make of that what they wanted.
At least I kept my dignity.
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