This is my first time using this site so bear with me. Hello. I'm 14/m and this year, our school is doing an eighth grade formal and i was thinking about asking my crush to it. She doesn't know I like her and I want to seem like its a friend asking a friend to dance. Not some crazy boy who likes you asking if he can have his arms on your waist your arms around him and your faces near each other's. I know not to do it over a text or note or a friend asking her because that would show her I'm shy and i kind of like her. So advice on what to say how to act and what all to do. Thanks everyone! Y'all are amazing! (Yes I'm from Texas if you couldn't tell)
Dragonflymagic answered Saturday June 8 2013, 11:33 pm: I remember when my daughters were in eighth grade and they went to the dance even though no boys had asked them. Once there, out of their entire 8th grade, they were surprised that all the girls came alone and so did the boys. There were officially only 2 or 3 couples. The girls wanted to dance but the boys were too shy to ask. At this point, they didn't care if it was someone they weren't planning to date, they just wanted to be invited to dance as I recall them sayin. So if you ask a girl to go with you, you're probably ahead of all the others who won't ask a girl. Ask if she was planning to go to the dance. Tell her you are planning to go. If she says no...ask why. If she doesn't have an answer, ask if her parents won't allow her to go or if she doesn't have a nice dress to wear or if she would rather go with someone. If it's a problem, what to wear, ask if she could borrow a dress from a friend, or that you would be okay with her just wearing what she wears to school because what matters more is having fun at the dance. If she says yes she is planning to go to the dance, ask if she was planning to go just with her girlfriends, or would she mind going with you instead. If you chicken out to asking her to go, go to the dance anyways in hopes that she showed up too. And if she is there, ask her to dance. Her girlfriends will be jealous if no one asks them at all the whole dance. But she will be very happy someone paid attention to her. [ Dragonflymagic's advice column | Ask Dragonflymagic A Question ]
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