Play Me Backwards
“TWENTY-TWO MINUTES “I guarantee you I will find a way to screw this up,” I told Stan towards the end of my shift. The gnawing feeling in my guts was working its way to the surface yet again. It hadn’t been this noticeable since the day Stan showed me how to use a hair dryer and a toilet plunger to get dents out of my car before my dad could see them.
“You’ll be fine,” he said. “You afraid she’s going to make you start acting like a prep or something?”
“Maybe.”
“Or that you’ll start liking her, ...but she won’t want her friends to know about you?”
“Yeah.”
“You think this is one of those teen comedies where a popular girl dates a dork?”
I considered this for a second while I spooned some vanilla ice cream into a cup of coffee.
“I could picture that,” I said. “Our first date would be a trip to the mall, and there’d be a musical montage of scenes with me coming out of different dressing rooms wearing trendy outfits that Paige had picked out for me.MoreLess
“You’ll be fine,” he said. “You afraid she’s going to make you start acting like a prep or something?”
“Maybe.”
“Or that you’ll start liking her, ...but she won’t want her friends to know about you?”
“Yeah.”
“You think this is one of those teen comedies where a popular girl dates a dork?”
I considered this for a second while I spooned some vanilla ice cream into a cup of coffee.
“I could picture that,” I said. “Our first date would be a trip to the mall, and there’d be a musical montage of scenes with me coming out of different dressing rooms wearing trendy outfits that Paige had picked out for me.MoreLess
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