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A girl fell for a boy April 23, 2016...It was me...It wasn't my prom but it was my best friends. Me and her made a promise as kids, if she couldn't find a date she would take me. So she took me, it was fun, I was nervous I'm not very used to dressing up. We went to prom found a good table with people we kinda knew kinda liked, She had a friend at prom and she was with a guy, he asked her she was my age, we all sat together. 

I liked it but I'm very shy and didn't wanna dance so her and her friend went and danced leaving the other girls date and me at the table. He was really cute honestly, I was in a not good long distance relationship at the time, it sounds really bad. He was wearing a red button up dress shirt, black dress pants, boots, and a cowboy hat. I was looking at him and accidentally made eye contact, he seemed to pay no attention to it but I saw him look at me a couple times. 

My best friend kept telling me that he was bad news before prom and all that sort of thing, but I honestly did not think that when I first met him. We basically kept getting ditched by our 'dates' all of prom night which I didn't mind, I liked his company... I was very shy and quiet and he sat a seat away, he kept seeming like he was going to say something but chickened out. Then finally he leaned over and said "you know you can talk to me, it's not like I'm gonna bite or anything," it made me jump because he suddenly spoke to me out of nowhere, but when he did I noticed, I really liked his voice for some reason. His date wasn't very happy it seemed the whole time, and wouldn't talk to him she was kind of a jerk. So we kept each other company, after I started talking I ended up feeling really comfortable around him.

He made me laugh and we had a lot in common, he wasn't really happy with prom because his date kept ditching him and she didn't like him at all. He didn't know what to do to make her actually talk to him. I tried to help him because I knew her, but I did try to subtly tell him she was bad news without sounding like I was trying to get him to not go for her. I helped as much as I could but I really didn't want him to go for her. He was so nice and was such a gentleman I didn't know why he would like her, I was kind of hoping if by chance he would like me, again sounds really bad, but you know.

We talked and he finally sat next to me and we talked some more, my best friend kept trying to make me get up and leave him but I didn't want to just ditch him like she ditched him. I reluctantly went with her but came back shortly after to keep him company. His cousin was at prom and there were these two home-schooled girls that were cousins with a girl at prom, they were twins and had never been to a dance, so him and his cousin went to ask them to dance to a slow song. I actually was jealous of them because they got to dance with him and no one would ask me to dance, I was really upset and really wanted to cry but I kept my tears at bay. 

After the song he stayed over there a while and it was kind of lonely. My friend and her friend came back and were talking and I felt zoned out, craving the moments I were talking to him actually having fun. I overheard in my friends conversation how "he ditched me to dance with those home-schooled skanks" I intervened and told her "you ditched him, sooo when he was looking for you to dance with you, he couldn't find you so he danced with one of the girls...maybe you shouldn't ditch your date." She got really pissy at me for saying it, but I had been talking to him and hanging out with him the entire prom, he was waiting to dance with her and now she was pissed he didn't dance with her first. 

He came back to the table and they left again, and he asked what was wring with his date, so I told him she was mad he didn't dance with her. He told me he would've if he knew where she was but he couldn't find her. And I told him that's what I told her and he wanted help making it up to her but she would not dance with him she refused. So I told her not to complain than if she wasn't willing to dance with him anymore. 

She was mad the whole night at him. I tried but she wouldn't have it so I said forget it. Me and him talked some more, I never got a dance from anybody but his company was nice and he liked talking to me too. He made me feel strange and giddy when he talked and his laugh was so funny I had to laugh at it. When prom was over he pulled me aside asking what he should do, I told him to just apologize to her, and she wouldn't let him and I told him then I have no idea. 

We left to the hotel me and my friend were staying at, he went home, the next day was silver dollar city and I was excited because he was going to be there to. When we got there his date went to her sister and was hungover the next day when we went and was really annoying. They both wanted to ditch him and ignore him but I didn't want to, he was the only reason I was even having fun the night before. So I told him what they were doing and he said he didn't care and that I made his prom better not her. We talked all day and went on all the rides together, I wanted to sit by him each time because he was fun and I liked him I was really starting to like him. 

He was afraid to go on some of the roller coasters but I finally got him on one and he loved it. On every ride he asked each time to go put my stuff down for me he was so sweet. I thought a couple times he almost held my hand, again bad and I tried to resist no matter how much I wanted to hold his hand, I was like an excited puppy all day dragging him to this ride and that leaving everyone behind. I had fun more fun than I would've had with them. They kept going wanting to smoke and I have asthma and they were mad I wouldn't sit by them when they did it. Me and him don't like smoking at all so we left them to go run around to have fun. 

I was really starting to like him a lot it was really hard not admitting it to myself but I was falling....hard. after the day was over my friend and her friend didn't feel good and wanted to go home and I thought I had to go with them only to find out I could've had him take me. I was so mad I wanted to spend the day with him and he wanted to spend the day with me, he told me later on he wanted to dance with me, and hold my hand ever since that night. It was shocking to me, Is aw him in school a lot after that and we talked and had each others number, the guy I was dating I ended it with because he was not a good person, and I was finally free.

We talked day in and day out, we hung out all the time, I met all his friends and made friends with them. And at his graduation May 21, 2016 I confessed what I felt for him in a card I got him. And I found out he liked me to, we claimed each other and he asked me to be his girlfriend. I never expected a single night and day could change so much, he's my date to my prom this year and we will be together a year May 22, 2017. It's been a whirlwind since that day, but all I know is I fell for a boy at a prom in a cowboy hat.....