My big chance came a week later. I had totally forgotten that the Homecoming Dance was coming up, and I decided to ask Sierra to be my date. I had two weeks to come up with a way to ask her, and my nerves went into panic mode. Every evening, I’d stand in front of my mirror, practicing how I’d try to sell my offer. Of course, I also went to Tom for advice.
“See, I told you, man, you got it bad for her. The best thing to do is just go and ask her. She can either say yes, and you have the time of your life, or she says no and you get on with life.”
“You’re right, Tommy,” I admitted. “She might not want to go, seeing that she’s not able to dance. But on the other hand, she’s been up to hanging with me and the gang, so you never know. Like you said, the worst that can happen is she says no, and I can live with that, but if I’m going down, I’m going down swinging.Ithink we’ve made an awesome connection, and if this works out, it could be more.”
“That’s the spirit, dude,” Tom said while patting my shoulder. “Speak from the heart, you can’t go wrong with that.”
And that is what I decided to do. After two days of practice, Sierra and I had our usual lunch meetup.
We discussed how things on the websites were going, and decided to partner on an upcoming project for English class. We would meet up at her place tomorrow evening to begin work on it.
With sweat starting to pour, I took a deep breath while she was looking at a book and decided to go for broke.
“Sierra, can I ask you something?” I said, steadying my nerves.
“Sure, what’s on your mind?”
“Ummm…the homecoming dance is in a couple of weeks, and I’m asking if you’d be interested in going as my date.”
I felt my nerves do a slow meltdown. This was the first moment of truth.
“Sure, I’d love to go,” She smiled. “Though obviously dancing would be out of the question.” Sierra patted the armrest of her wheelchair.
“That’s OK, I’m not much of a dancer anyway,” I laughed. “It’ll just be a fun time where we can hang out.”
“Sounds like a plan, it’s a date,” Sierra answered.
A date. I smiled inwardly. Dude, you did it.
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