So. Picture a smol 15 year old baby boy with a SWEET haircut and a sweater that had shrunk in the wash the night before and didn’t quite fit right. There I was: at the movie theater with my “girlfriend.” It was our first date and boy oh boy was I nervous. We had talked a whole lot through AIM but very rarely face to face! SPOOKY TIMES!
I was at this date with her and my good friend Doug who was also there with his girlfriend. Once the trailers started, they started smoochin.’ I didn’t know what to do, so I just sat quietly next to them and kept my eyes on the screen. I just couldn’t muster the courage to look at my date. But then, in typical best friend fashion, Doug turned to me and my date and said “you guys gonna kiss, or…”That was the moment that everything changed. Little awkward boy had to become a little awkward man. I turned to my date, her eyes wide with anticipation. I leaned in for the smooch of a lifetime. This would be… legendary. BUT THEN at the last second, when our lips were just about to connect I backed away! “Why did he pull back?” My date must’ve thought. Little did my date know, I had a peanut allergy. I couldn’t just go around blindly kissing anyone. I had to be safe. I had to know what had touched her lips before my own would be placed upon them.
“Have you eaten peanuts today?” I asked nervously.
Good enough for me! I leaned in again, this time with a bit more pep, and our lips collided in an explosion of love, passion and inexperience. The air was filled with Cupid’s arrows and the scent of Axe body spray. It was truly a glorious afternoon.
And that, my friends, is how I got my first kiss.
