rollerskating and 80's hair

Ceeci shared her love story last week and asked that others write theirs. So here is the story of how Bossman and I met.

Bossman and I were still in high school when we met. I was a senior and he, just a junior. (I know what Eva will say here, cradle robber!)

When I was in highschool I was very involved in a youth group at my church. This group was very important to me. I did everything with those kids. We must have spent 3 or 4 nights a week at church doing something. We had a choir, we had a puppet ministry, we went and visited the shut-ins. You name it, and our group was probably involved.

Our group consisted of teens from 2 local high schools. The town we lived in was pretty small, so these were the only local high schools. Needless to say, they were rival schools. But as for our group, it didn't matter which school you attended, we were all one big happy family.

Some of the kids in our youth group decided to start a christian rock band. These kids all went to the rival school. They hooked up with a guy from their school that could play a killer lead guitar. They started bringing this guy to our church functions.

Now, just so you know, I wasn't very active in the dating scene. Although I was a senior, dating just wasn't really important to me. Heck, I was in church most of the time anyway, and we all hung out together. There was a lot of boyfriend and girlfriend stuff within our group, but we all seemed to like just hanging out together in a group, so none of us really did much "one-on-one" dating. I did have a couple of guys that I tried to date, but it never lasted long, because I always wanted to hang with the group. I felt like if I wasn't there I would miss something.

Anyway, my friends start bringing this guy, from the rival school, to different church events. Now this guy was really tall, which I liked, because I'm really tall, and it was hard to find guys in high school taller than me. This guy had dark curly hair. Now remember, this is in the middle of the 80's, so the in thing was big hair. Remember, this guy was the lead guitarist in a rock band. So he had long poofy hair. Typical 80's rock band hair.

So, I'd been seeing this guy at some of our church functions. But I hadn't really talked to him. We may have been a church youth group, but we weren't very open to newcomers. It's not that we were mean but we were just full of ourselves. You know, typical teen stuff.

One night, our group had a rollerskating party. I'll never forget it, it was a monday night. It was spring break. We were having a great time. My friends brought Bossman to the roller rink. Remember how big rollerskating was in the 80's? Just hearing 80's music brings me back to the roller rink. At this rink they would have different things happening. Some songs were special songs, and they would call it couples skate. If you wanted to skate during that song, you had to have a partner. They didn't care whether it was a girl or guy, but you had to skate with a partner. Usually, during these times, I would either skate with a girl friend or just sit it out. So my girl friend asks me to skate with her.

Now, mind you, this is the end of my senior year. I've only got about a month or so until my 18th birthday. And a couple of months left of high school. But I was very shy around boys. Especially boys that were not in our church group. For some reason, on this night, I was feeling a little frisky. So when my friend asked me to skate, I just wasn't feeling it. I looked out on the skate floor and some of my friends with boyfriends were skating around, holding hands and such, and it looked so romantic. I looked around the sides of the rink, and this boy, the one that my friends had brought, was sitting on one of the benches just watching the other skaters. I knew in that moment, I should ask him to skate. So I tell my friend, I think I'll ask that guy to skate with me.

This was so out of my character that my friend couldn't believe it. She says, puuleesse! There is no way your going over there and asking him to skate. I thought about it for a minute and said, "yep, think I'll ask him." So she dared me. "Sure you will," she said, "I don't believe you'll do it." So.....I did!

I skated over to him, and sat down next to him on the bench. I pretty sure I was having a nervous break down, but ever so clever as I am, I pretended to be fixing my skate. When he didn't even really look over at me, I thought, oh man, this is going to be harder than I thought. But I took the plunge and asked anyway.

"uh, hey, how's it going?" I said. "oh, hey, it's goin'." He said. "so hey, uh, wouldyouskatewithme?" "Uh, ok." he said, and stood up. So we both go on the skate floor and start skating side by side. Not touching or anything, just skating. So pathetic. Just thinking about it makes me laugh.

After a few rounds around the rink, I ask him his name, he asks me mine, and there you have it...our first meeting. Still no hand holding, but just talking and skating.

But then the whorish little wench that I am comes up with an even better plan. After witnessing a couple of friends skate by backwards, I ask if he knows how to skate backward. Sure, he says, and turns around to face me, and starts skating backward. So I say, I don't think I can skate backward. So I turn around and try. Pretending that I can't skate backward, he turns around and puts his hands up, so he can push me around backward. Aaaahhhh, I touched him...tee hee!

Anyway, that's how the rest of the night went. We pretty much skated around together the rest of the night. I pretty much kept trying to skate backward and he kept pushing me around the rink. It was really fun, and I felt so free, like I had broken out of my shell. I mean I ASKED a boy to skate. A boy I didn't know. How cool was that??

There is more to this story, but I've got to take the little man out for some school shoes. If your not too bored, stop by again, and I'll finish up my cute little high school story.

later.....