Grade 7 story that I just remembered. Asked the hottest girl (imo at the time) to the grade 7 dance and she said yes, and it went swimmingly. We went to the movies a few times (yes with our parents driving us
) and hung out a bunch. I got an MSM message from her asking why I had been saying that we were going out. She said something along the lines of, and I am paraphrasing here, 'Why are you saying we are BF and GF? It would be great if we were but you never asked me to be your girlfriend.'
Seems like an invitation to ask no? I couldn't get to her house, so I called her home phone and asked if she wanted to be my girlfriend, she said that her dad wouldn't let her date. It was a complete lie, and I knew it, but I guess it was a letting me down easy sort of thing. Positive side was that we went to separate high schools so I didn't have to deal with the awkwardness.