so, this is love

It started with our moms, really. They worked in the same salon when I was a baby and his mom was pregnant, they remained friends afterwards but we seen each other more when he was with his Dad. They came over often and we even took a trip to Tennessee together (where we laid the back seat down and laid In the trunk, trying to be cool). Not too long after I was 11 & he was 10, we all drifted apart and practically lost touch for almost 8-10 years; until the day he was in need of a prom date. “You wouldn’t by chance have a pretty dress would ya? Like fancy.” My anxiety though, wasn’t thrilled about the idea of a school dance with a kid I hadn’t seen in almost a decade, along with the fact that I had sworn off dating and thought it’d be really weird to date someone that always aggravated me as a kid; so I was playing as much hard to get as possible and after deciding to go to prom, wanted to make sure everyone (especially him) knew we were just friends. I didn’t even want to ride in the same vehicle with him to prom, but I did. After finding a seat at prom with him and his friends and talking for awhile, I seen some girls looking at him and felt myself get jealous. After all that hard work it took for me to play “hard to get” and avoid anything more than friendship, I laid my head on his shoulder.