Tonight, my father’s girlfriend’s eldest son is going to his junior prom. First he’s going to a pre-prom party at his friend’s huge house, then he and his date are getting picked up by a limousine, then he will head to the prom. Afterwards, there’s a post-prom party as well.
In my time, I’ve been to five proms. First was my junior prom (see the picture above). B. said she’d go with me if no one else would. I don’t even think I asked anyone else. We went as “just friends,” and I think a day or two later, I ended up introducing her to C., who ended up being her boyfriend for a time.
Moving on… next year was my senior year in high school. I went to three proms that year. First there was the junior prom. L., a girl I knew from choir, asked me to go with her. We weren’t close friends, but she was a really nice person to be around. I had fun. I also went to a junior prom at a different high school with a different B. I don’t even remember how I got to know her. She was nice, but definitely more interested in me than I was with her.
The reason for that is because I spent most of my senior year with crushes on other girls. In fact, I got turned down by one of them for the senior prom. She said she just didn’t want to go to the senior prom. She was a sophomore, I think. Of course, she ended up going with someone else. I ended up going to the prom with another girl who told me she’d go with me if no one else would. She was a freshman who just wanted to go to the prom to hang around with the older kids, from what I could tell. But she was nice, and I think she had a good time. I didn’t see her much.
After high school, I went away to college but started a long-distance relationship with a girl I knew, J. She was a high school junior at the time, and she asked me to her prom. I went back to her high school at the end of my freshman year at college to attend the prom with her, and I have to say that it was my most enjoyable prom experience.
Maybe it’s because I didn’t know anyone else there. Maybe it’s because my date was my girlfriend. Maybe it’s because I wasn’t in high school. For whatever reason, the fifth one was the charm. However, none of my proms ever involved a limousine.