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In your senior year of high school, you want everything to be as good as you can make it. It's your last chance to make your mark at your school, and you want to end on a good note. My senior year had gone the best that I could have hoped for, and there was one last big event before graduation: Sub Deb. The Andalusia Country Club Sub Deb club hosts two dances every year- one in the fall that's a formal, and one in the spring that is more casual. I had always loved going to them whenever I was invited- but I hated only one thing about them. I hated having to ask a guy to go to the dance with me. I know this is part of the tradition of Sub Deb, but I just never had many guy friends and it terrified me; However, this was the first time (well actually there was one other time, but we'll just say this was the first) that I didn't have to worry about asking someone to go to Sub Deb with me. I was dating the person that I would ask! It was so nice not having to be concerned about my date. I was completely relaxed, until I was informed that there might be a slight possibility that he may not be able to go with me anymore. Each day I would hear scattered answers. "I'm pretty sure my dad's not going to let me go","Well, I don't know, today's not looking so great but maybe", "He said I might be able to go!". I held on to my small piece of hope. Certainly he would let him go, right? It's my last dance. I had already paid for our t-shirts and the fee to go. I started telling my friends that I didn't know if I was going to go to the dance anymore if I didn't have a date. No one goes by themselves to this dance, and I didn't want to be "that" girl. So my friends started to look for people I could go with- some of them made things embarassing for me. Hence when one of my friends asked someone to go with me that already had a girlfriend and I hadn't even met him before- this was quite humiliating... I know you meant well though friend, so I still love ya :) But the point is that I didn't want to go with anyone else. The day of the dance finally arrived, and he asked me to keep my phone with me so that he could update me on whether he could come or not. I waited...and waited... and waited...and I decided that I should go ahead and get ready just in case. I didn't hear the answer until I was getting my hair done at around 5 that afternoon. And the final answer was... "No". I considered not going anymore, but then I was reminded that this was my last high school dance, and I still had great friends to live it up with. I put on my make-up and my dress, hopped into my car, and drove into town. My friends told me that they were meeting up to take pictures, so I joined them. When I walked up- I saw my friends and their parents giving me confused looks. The parents looked like they were thinking, "Doesn't she have a boyfriend?" "This is awkward..." But I joined in on their group pictures. I got into Haley's shiny silver maxima with the rest of the crew, and they quickly made me forget that I was without a date. "You're so hypnotizing, could you be the devil, could you be an angel?" E.T. came on and Haley rolled down the windows and blared the music. I caught myself smiling and singing along. We arrived at the country club a few minutes later. I could tell that people were looking at me because I was alone, and they wanted to know where my date was. At this point, I just wanted to prove a point- I can have fun with my friends no matter what the case is. I still wanted a picture to remember the night- so my close girl friends and I got a group picture together by Vicki Popwell :) It was finally time to dance. The first song they played was the "Wop"... I love to Wop. Though at that time, I'm pretty sure me and only 10 other people knew how to Wop but we were rocking it. And then the raunchiness started happening- you know what I'm talking about! I just feel so gross watching it :/ So it was about 3/4 of the people doing that, and then there's the circle of my friends making up line dances and fun things to do. We were just ourselves and let loose. Laughing, making up dance moves, and being free- not caring about fitting in or what the world thought about our goofiness. And at the end of the night, no one gave me "the look" anymore. They saw that I was having fun regardless of the situation. That is the most fun I've ever had at a dance... I'm not even lying to you. So to all you guys and girls out there not wanting to go to a high school dance because you don't have a date... never let that get in your way. Go with the people that you love to be around and there's no way that you won't have a great time ♥
Leigh Ellen says... "cingular, raising the bar" ;)
