It starts with an amazing mixture of winning what seems to be the most important football game your high school will ever play, add in a generous dose of music, a dance floor, and heels that are too high to walk in, and end it all with a dash of memories that will never be forgotten. Viola! You've just created your own Homecoming!
Now I don't know how homecoming is in every town, but from what I can tell you its a big deal, but only for girls. We buy the dresses that send our parents into a small debt, go out for manicures & pedicures, and even though we know we will complain about it later, we buy heels that are taller than every other girls heels. Did you know tall girls give the best hugs?
All that remains missing from our perfectly planned night is our Prince Charming. Whats a single girl to do when Prince Charming won't take her to the ball? Well that easy, she goes with a bunch of her single girls. Some girls, are newly single, and due to heartbreak need to dance their ass off and make that guy so jealous, while she's grinding with a new boy. That's usually their intent at least, but usually the girl ends up crying in the bathroom or leaving early.
Now, I am a strong believer that the weekend of Homecoming has some sort of magic to it. Homecoming is the "Make or Break" of relationships. If you are in a steady relationship with a boy and you are in love, Homecoming does not concern you. Homecoming concerns the "few" people in the world who are looking for love.
For example: A Friend of mine, Charlotte, had a pretty dramatic summer.
Charlotte was in a theatre program this summer and fell head over heels for a fellow thespian, Harry. Now Harry had a few past relationships, and Charlotte had never been able to get past one date with a boy. Charlotte's biggest fear was if Harry liked her back or not, and if he did like her back the possibility of a relationship would occur, and Charlotte was worried she didn't have enough experience with boy to date Harry. I cannot stress how many nights we stayed up texting, me the calm reasonable one, Charlotte the frantic romantic who was afraid of making out in the back of the movie theatre.
Eventually school began, and Charlotte didn't have as much time to text me about Harry, so you could imagine my surprise when I see Charlotte at the homecoming dance with a boy! I sneak over to her during a song, hug her, compliment her dress, and ask her "Who's this?" as I point to the boy she was standing with. she smiles and replies "Fred!" I smile and when Fred's back is turned i quickly gesture towards him and raise my eyebrows. She shakes her head and mouths a huge "NO!" as if she were disgusted with me asking. I put my hands up and walk back over to my dance group. The day after Homecoming Charlotte confesses to me that she think she has a crush on Fred. BOOM. Homecoming magic. She only went with Fred to Homecoming because she knew she didn't have a crush on him, but know she does. Who's to blame but the Ghost of Homecomings' present?
On the other side of the love spectrum, there's my friend Maddie. Maddie has had a crush on Forrest for a little under a year now. and back in July Forrest asked her out for some coffee. You could only imagine how happy and eager she was to say yes! However Forrest never really set a time and date for the coffee date... when Maddie told me about this during school I immediately snatched her phone and texted Forrest "Hey, so how about that coffee date?" It took him six hours to respond with a "Sure what time and day is good for you?" And thus, began the planning of Maddie's and Forrest's wedding. However, come homecoming season we were all waiting for Forrest to ask Maddie to the dance, and when it was coming up of the week OF HOMECOMING I texted Forrest asking him what his plans where for the evening. And he said he already had a date. And the date wasn't Maddie. Needless to say we hate Forrest now, but Karmas' a real bitch because guess whose date bailed on them the night before homecoming? That's right, Forrest went to homecoming dateless and watched Maddie have the time of her life with all of her friends. A proud SINGLE girl.
Now I'd be lying if I said to you that I wasn't hoping a certain boy would ask me to homecoming, but looking around the dance floor that night for my Prince Charming would have been pointless. And I like to think I found more happiness in watching my friends have a better time. I danced the night away, like any girl would have. Every girl gets their night to feel like a princess, I already had mine back in August, so watching my Friends have theirs at a high school dance was surprisingly rewarding.
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