Highlight of my life

Okay this is a story of a boy who thought he had all the right answers.. As many people know at a young age we all think we know what our futures will hold and think we know everything. The young boy in this story is named Tim. Tim was a typical teenage kid. He was brilliant but like everybody else just wanted to be loved. This is his story.

Hi i'm Tim and this is my story. I'm now 32 years old. I live in a small town in beautiful upstate ny. . I am now living with the love of my life . I have a memory of a genius. Now for some reason i can't  remember when i was born or remember my first food i ate, or even the first movie i ever watched but i remember the first girl i ever fell in love with. Lets take it back to 1996. Wow i'm thinking dinosaurs must of roamed the earth way back then. There i was your typical teenager just trying to fit in. Well a typical for starters i used to wear these really really tight jeans and these stripped shirts. On occaions i would wear the typical doctor phil sweater. I wasnt much of a girl magnet sorta say but i always just wanted to feel loved. Getting a girlfriend back then was like finding a job in todays world. Not easy at all. I mean all the other kids dressed well drove there parents car to school and here i was super geek of the year. But i had one thing that most people didnt have. I had a charm about me. I knew how to make people laugh, you could say i was the class clown.. and you know what you'd be right. But still getting a girl to like me for me was a challenge i didnt know how to handle.. Okay there were a couple girls that liked me. But being liked and being popular go hand in hand. The girls that liked me werent the cutest or most popular so i tried to avoid them. There was one particular girl who i was madly in love with. We will call her cheryl. She was beautiful had a wonderful smile about five foot five long brown hair past her shoulders. Freckles beautiful green eyes. And she had a rack on her that almost competed with Pam Anderson. She was the ideal girl for me. Way out of my league but like any dumb kid i wasnt going to let that stop me. I would always bring her gifts such as flowers or rings or candy. I remember on a bet with one of my friends that i made if i won i would get to date her for half a class. That's right a full 30 mins. And i won the bet. Sitting in class for that full 30 mins was heaven knowing that she was my girlfriend. She refused to look at me at all durning it but i dont care i had what i always wanted... I was popular even if only for a half hour i had the girl everybody else wanted to be with and i was top dog. Man did i feel alive more alive then i had ever felt. I dont know if anything could ever compare to the feeling of being on top felt. But like most good things it had to end. After that cheryl refused to talk to me. I guess our 30 mins of love didnt mean what they meant to me. I continued to chase her through junior high. I think i did more harm then good out of it. I mean everybody in school knew i was madly in love with her. And i think 90 percent knew i didnt have a chance with her so they looked at me like i was a ass clown. But it all came to a halt in the summer of 1998 a school dance. This was my time to shine. I remember i dressed up that night i wanted to look my best so i did what most kids were doing back then i dressed up like uncle jesse used to dress on full house. You remember that sitcom where the music would come on and the great speeches were given. And everything always turned out great after the pep talks. So i dressed with jeans that fit with holes near the knees a white t shirt and a leather jacket. I must of used about 3 gallons of moose and hair gel in my hair because no matter what i tried to do my hair stayed in one place. Even uncle jesses hair would move from time to time. This was like super glued into place. I wore those glasses like tom cruise used to wear like in the movie Risky Bussiness. I was set to win the heart of this girl i was so in love with. So getting back to the "dance" a once in a life time opporutinty. That night girls were pointing and smiling about how good i looked and i knew it. It was all going to pay off. I remember the whole night sitting there waiting for the perfect moment the perfect song. I thought it would never come because most of the night i sat there on the sidelines watching other people dance. The food consession was great and i wasnt going to ask her to dance to just any song.  Then the disc jockey said this song is a new song and it's a love song find that special person and dance with them. So i had to borrow the courage from somewhere inside me i said " hell i'm going for it". I approached her swallowed my pride. I said "cheryl would you like to dance" I had already prepared myself for the biggest rejection of my lifetime. But to my suprise she said "sure why not" so it was the song I swear. It was by all 4 one. Told you i had a great memory. I remember i was so scared i was gonna mess up. Maybe i was going to step on her feet. Or i was going to hold her to tight. After all i was about 16 then and i had never really danced a day in my life. I didnt know what the hell i was doing and i was dancing with the prettiest girl in the world. So there i was turning in circles for the most part and i remember my palms were super sweaty and my heart was racing 100 times faster then it normally did. I went to say something but the music was so loud so i just went with the moment. I remember that song seemed like it lasted for hours. Watching the vidieo on MTV today it lasts 2 mins and 34 seconds. Then the song was almost over and she looked up at me pulled me closer to her. So close i thought i was going to just die in her arms. What was i suppose to do. There was a angel staring back at me. So i just continued to dance then she pulled me closer and before i knew it or could do anything she kissed me. Not just a peck like my grandmother used to do everyday when i'd come over to her house to visit her but a real long sweet romantic kiss. It made me feel like i was higher then any drug you could ever give a person. We continued to kiss for a whole 30 seconds. Felt like 30 years. It was the greatest moment in my entire life. I will always remember what she meant to me and that first kiss was the kiss i would try and compare every other kiss with but none will ever feel as special as that first one.. I am a grown man now and reflect on my past. I'm glad that we went our seperate ways. I still see her from time to time. She's not what i once thought she was but we always had that dance and we always had that kiss. I guess that's the day i became a man.