In the 8th grade I went to the 8th grade social with my friend Ashley. I guess this was back when I was pretending to be a heterosexual. So at the end of the night I went home to discover that my house has been toilet papered. My house had never once been toilet papered in my entire life and I was simply confused as to who could have possibly done this. It was the Eldorado High School Show Choir “Gold Rush” who had TP’d my house. It was their way of telling me that I had made it into their show choir. I had auditioned for the group the week before and was probably the first thing that I had ever auditioned for in my life. At the same time I was just a 14-year-old closet case whose ultimate dream was to be in a boy band and win and Oscar at the same time, so you can imagine I was very excited about this. This show choir led to four years of exciting times in a dinky high school choir room and some amazing friends. And some pretty interesting Frienemies.
There were two girls in Gold Rush who I spent my first semester of high school believing that they had to be the teenage incarnations of the devil. Their names were Jean-Louise Zancanella and Katie Walker. These two were apparently best friends. The three of us were all freshmen and were the new kids in Gold Rush. That wasn’t saying much tough, that year more than half the group was made up of freshmen.
Anyway, those two girls had, at the time, a very different political and spiritual look on life than my own. Oh and it probably didn’t help that I was crazy annoying, or maybe just plain crazy. I was a 14-year-old closet case who was convinced that he could make himself like girls somehow, I believed that George Bush was doing a wonderful job as president and probably most annoying of all, I felt that it was my responsibility to… wait for it… wait for it… bring non-believers to Christ. So safe to say, as a freshmen in high school I was a radical christian conservative. Jean-Louise and Katie were… not. It was easy for them to make fun of me and at the time I felt very wronged. Looking back though can you blame them? I can’t.
There was a girl in the choir, who will remain nameless because it’s weird, which I had a “crush” on. Really I was just hoping that if I could get a girl to date me I would become normal. None the less Katie and Jeanie caught wind of my crush. They intervened and said “She totally has a crush on you too. If you ask her out she’ll totally say yes.” ... She didn’t.
I asked her out, she said no. It was weird and when I picture the memory of me asking out this girl I can almost hear the laughter of two evil girls floating into the room.
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