The Pre-Banquet Experience

Here we are, in the Pre-Banquet stage at school. For those readers who do not know the term "Banquet", it's basically a Prom, except without the dancing. Luckily, this year there will be dancing, though it will be kept at a minimum it seems. I don't know how many of my readers have prepared for a Banquet/Prom before. The guys have to ask the girls to go with them to, and that's always interesting to watch. I am an introvert, in case you didn't know that about me, so I get nervous just thinking about asking a girl to Banquet. Each time I feel like it's a perfect time to ask that cute girl over there, voices jump into my head, each telling me what I should do. "Walk up to her and ask her straight forward." "No, no, you don't want to just walk up to her. You should write her an extravagant note and ask her that way." And then there is always that voice saying "What if she says no? Then you look like a fool." This is my first year that I get to ask someone to banquet, and I was excited for a while. I had one certain person picked out and, as other guys and girls paired, I planned the perfect way to ask. Parents bothered me at home, and most any other time they were around me, asking me when I would talked to her about it. Just as my parent's bugging got worse, I heard rumors of another guy in my class asking the same girl I was going ask if she would go to Banquet with him and, as I later found out, she said yes to him. As I think about this occurrence, I ask myself, why didn't I ask sooner? I know that this girl I have a crush on didn't do anything wrong, I just hesitated. If I could have another chance, I would definitely have asked sooner. Luckily, I still have my Senior year. So, as others couple up in the next month or so before, I continue learning knew things every day. Look Out for my Next Post, Benjamin Hudson