We went out Saturday night, and while searching for a parking spot we saw some kids wandering around in formalwear. The boys were in tuxes, looking a little stiff, and the girls were so pretty in their dresses. Just seeing them took me back…
I went to a lot of formal dances in high school. I even had fun at most of them. I loved dressing up - still do. Halfway though my senior year, my boyfriend surprised me by asking me to the winter dance. This really was a surprise – he had the habit of neglecting to ask me to other dances, or even breaking up with me temporarily to get out of going. I found a beautiful blue dress. I thought I looked like Snow White in it.
We double-dated with another couple, and went out for dinner. I don’t remember the dinner, or even the dance – I was just on a cloud, so happy to be with him, feeling like a princess. At one point he leaned over and whispered in my ear, “My parents are gone for the weekend….” and gave me a knowing look.
We left and zipped over to his house. He led me in, holding my hand, and brought me up to his room. I had to laugh – he’d even cleaned his room. We kissed, and he tried to help me out of the dress. The zipper stuck, but it was down just far enough for me to wiggle out of it. He slid out of his tux and lowered me onto the bed. So romantic, even if there were still posters of his favorite bands tacked onto the walls. We started to mess around, cracked out a couple of condoms, and then…
well, you guessed it. He was a bit too eager, a bit too excited….
I managed to mop myself up fairly well, and when he dropped me off, my own parents didn’t notice (or didn’t say anything if they did) that my hair was a little bedraggled, and my dress zipper was stuck about 3/4 of the way up.