This week, our advice-seeker was all about prom.
Okay, so I have a huge crush on this boy. I have known him my whole life and when we were kids, like about 8 or 9, he really liked me. He was always trying to kiss me and stuff. Our parents knew each other.We have always stayed friends.
The problem is that now I don't know if he likes me.
We go to different schools. I asked him to go to prom with me "as a friend." Like 3 months earlier he had asked me if I was going to prom. I had said yes. He asked if I had a date. I said not yet. Then, he said that if I didn't have one I should go with him.We went and were having a lot of fun until this girl at my school that I don't know started hitting on him. And he didn't tell her to go away. :[ Up until this point he was being really sweet. During fast songs we danced like huge nerds while everyone around us was getting pretty dirty. During slow songs we danced like a couple with my head on his shoulder. ^_^
Then, this girl started grinding on him when I WAS ALREADY DANCING WITH HIM.
Then, she asked me if I was his girlfriend. I said no. Later, I started talking to a friend for like 30 seconds. When I turned around I realized that the girl had went over to my table and taken my date away to dance with! So, I went over and took him away, lol. Later that night while we were dancing he said that he needed to go to the bathroom. When I looked back a second later he was talking to her AGAIN!
When we got to his car to leave I asked him if he got her number. He said no. I said why not. He said I don't know. Later he laughed a bit about how it really helped his ego to be hit on so much. I was annoyed with him so I said that I didn't want to hang out with my friends and stuff and just wanted to go home. He then decided to make my evening more miserable and come inside to HANG OUT WITH MY MOM! Eventually, he went home.
SO, WHAT SHOULD I DO?! Does he like me? Is he just trying to be my best friend? Should I give up on him for after he talked to that girl?
Geraldine
Dear Geraldine,
Auntie SparkNotes would never want to upset you, and so it is with the utmost care, respect, and kindness that I ask you the following:
Girl, are you dense?!
The boy asked you to take him to prom three months in advance; he acted “really sweet”; you danced like maniacs all night—except when you were dancing like a couple, of course; he willingly came inside to hang with you and your mom, and you don’t know if he likes you?
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Oh, begging your pardon; Auntie SparkNotes just accidentally faceplanted into her keyboard.
Five times.
Yes, yes, yesfortheloveofallthatisholy, he LIKES YOU. Or rather, he did like you; given that some time has passed since then, and that you’ve been, um, kinda-sorta playing games with him instead of just telling him how you feel, he might have given up hope by now. But you still have the chance to make things right and be straight with him—assuming he hasn’t fled, heartbroken, into the arms of Grindmeister Flirtypants. (Also, let’s take a moment to acknowledge that grinding up on someone else’s prom date is seriously heinous. You’re in formalwear, for crying out loud! Have you no shame? Keep your pelvis to yourself!)
Oh, Geraldine! Are you still here? Well, go on and make things right: call him up, make a date to hang out, and apologize for acting like a post-prom pill.
Yes, you did.
And then, tell him the truth—that seeing another girl hitting on him made you jealous. That’s the mature thing to do, and you’ll be paving the way for the convo you really want to have. You know, the one where the two of you confess your feelings for each other, you fall into his arms, and you kiss passionately in the rain just like Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams in The Notebook, and nobody comes to start grinding on either one of you. Now that's romance.
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