I’m not really one for love/dating advice, as it’s never been a big deal to me, but recently there’s a girl I can’t help but think about. Now, before I continue, I should disclose that I’m 14 (15 in July), so if my age isn’t of permittable assistance to this Website, than feel free to lock this.
There’s a girl named Tabitha that I used to go to School with. We were together in 3rd-5th Grade, and during I believe the 3rd Grade, after we were the only two 3rd Graders moved from “Normal” Classes to the Gifted Class (Not Special Ed, for the record, the complete opposite of that), she admitted to me that she and her friend, who was in our Gifted Class and a 4th Grader, liked me. I had spent a month or so hanging out with her (Tabitha) at Recess and continuing to be friendly in Class as we always were to each other in an attempt to get her to feel the same way about me that I did her, and much to my happiness, it worked. Things never really went anywhere after that, as I’ve always been one to shy from “dating”, on the occasion a girl likes me, and she never really brought it up or made a big deal about it, so we continued to be good friends all the way until we were done with 5th Grade, when we then went to different Schools and are now in very different places. She still lives in Tulsa, and I have since moved to Locust Grove, both places located in Oklahoma, about an hour away from each other.
I signed up for a MySpace account, last year (I’m hip with the times, aren’t I? Only five years late to the party), and found her, among many other old friends on there. We shared a little back-and-forth about how we were doing, but that was about it, and she was nice as always and sounded interested, or at least I tell myself that, haha, but either way, she was nice and didn’t seem at all effected by our long patch of time without contact. She stopped updating that towards the end of the year, and since I already had a Facebook to see how it was, I looked her up, last week, and she accepted my Friend Request the next day. I know most kids my age are in it for either “OMG I SO TOTATALLY LOVE THEM!!!!!!”, sex, or a combination of the two, but I really miss her friendship and don’t see her as just a sexual object or anything like that, just a really pretty girl I miss talking to. While I understand being away from her distance-wise probably won’t change until at least later this year, if that, I was wondering what’s a way to engage her the same way I did years ago without looking like a creepy guy on the Internet after something?
I’m not saying I expect her to fall head-over-heels for me, but if I could at least develop that sense of rapport and friendship that we had for so long, that would at least be a nice thing to usher in the new year with.
