Spin Cycle: Elephant Shoe

Oh, Sprite’s Keeper picked a dozy this week.  This week’s spin cycle is all about those magical words that makes your world go round.  And no I don’t mean “Out of debt”.  I mean “I love you”.

I was going to write about the first time that Millhouse told me that he loved me.  But I don’t remember when that was.  Hell I don’t even remember when we started dating.  It is amazing if I remember our anniversary.  If you ask him he would say that I said those three words first but I swear he told me before I told him.  Because I would never tell him before he told me.  That would involve me willing to accept rejection and I ain’t that brave.

So I am not going to tell you the story of when Millhouse proclaimed his undying love to me.  I am going to tell you about the first time a boy proclaimed his love for me.  

I was in grade 6, Miss Path’s class.  His name was Randy* and he was a year older than me but in the same grade.  (He was held back.)  He was best friends with Mike* and I was so crushing on Mike.  Mike had a younger brother.  I had a younger sister.  Mike wore glasses.  I wore glasses.  It was a match made in heaven, if only Randy would leave me alone.  He was always there; carrying my backpack, saving me a seat a lunch, and turning the skipping rope.  He was even there at the year end dance.  He was there when Mike turned me down and danced the entire afternoon with Pat.  It broke my heart and I wanted to hide.  But Randy danced with me.  It was the typical grade 6 girl / boy dance.  We stayed an arms length apart and swayed.  It was great.  After the dance he walked me home.  (We lived in the same apartment building so technically he was walking home too.  But that’s just a technicality.)  When we got to the building I went upstairs to my apartment and he stayed downstairs to play with the other kids.  After I got home I went out on my balcony (we lived on the 3^rd floor) and Randy was standing there.  I yelled down and asked him what he was doing.  He yelled back up – Meli I love you!  I did what any preteen girl would do at that point; I ran into my room and called my friends.  After we discussed it for about a half an hour I ran back out and yelled down at him – I love you too!  

The smile he gave me after that made instant butterflies in my stomach.

Randy moved that summer and I have never seen him since.  But when I think of him I still smile. 

* I changed the names because even though all this happened 20 years ago, you never know who reads this.

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