Remembered something cute, wanted to write it out how it went down.
8tb grade formal had been something I was dreading for many weeks before it ever even happened. On the day it did, I had not expected my feelings for a certain boy to return in full.
He was stupid.
I love him despite this, despite the fact that he wore huge sunglasses that covered half his face for most of the night bc it pissed me off. Despite the fact that he didn't even dress formally, and instead was simply in a button down overlayed by his same jacket he always wore. Despite the fact that he was too nervous to dance with me as more then a joke. Despite the fact that, even not as my date, he still acted as my date because I didn't have one, and he didn't either.
At one point, I remembered his friends had ditched him. He'd found me, whether intentionally or not, and struck up conversation in the hall outside the gym. We later got sick of sitting on the floor out there and moved to the main dance.
While in there, I realizing just how much I loved him. How despite all the things he'd done, he was still that same boy in 5th grade math, who helped me on my quizzes and apologized when I cried over not understanding it. Something within me struck deep, like a chill on the base of my spine.
And all I could do was smile, as I carefully removed a rose pin from my hair, and placed it on his jacket.
And for once, instead of stupidly laughing off my affections or calling it gross, he adjusted it thanked me.
And then, he had something to remember me by for later that night.
:)
(P.s: he later told me he really, really wanted to ask me to slow dance with him but literally neither of us know how to slow dance.)