She Agreed To Go To Prom With One Of Her Friends After His Mom Asked, But Then She Canceled Since She Was Afraid It Would Be An Awkward First Date
Prom is fast approaching for a 17-year-old girl who happens to be on the prom committee. A couple of days ago, she was hanging out at her best guy friend’s house, and his name is Leto.
While she was at Leto’s house, his mom Martha asked her how the planning process was going for prom, before wondering if any guys had already asked her to be their date.
When she told Martha that nobody had invited her to come to prom with them, Martha said to Leto he should go with her.
Leto clearly felt put on the spot and mentioned that he wasn’t sure, before becoming silent for the remainder of the conversation.
“Then she asked me if I would like that,” she explained. “I simultaneously nodded and shook my head, eventually saying “sure.” Big mistake.”
Martha was thrilled, her family was overjoyed, and so, she was going to prom with Leto. The thought had crossed her mind to invite Leto to prom with her if she couldn’t find a date.
It’s worth mentioning that she was conflicted over how she felt about Leto, even though that same night that Martha organized her going to prom with Leto, she confided in Leto that she had feelings for him.
When she said this, she did believe she was falling for Leto, but the more she thought about it, the more she acknowledged that she was way off base.
“I know that Leto and I have liked each other on and off,” she said. “My issue is that I don’t know if those feelings are genuine, or forced. Especially on my end.”
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“He’s a gentleman, which makes things that much more difficult. Why wouldn’t I want to date a gentleman? My thing is that Leto being a gentleman shouldn’t be enough to like him.”
Every time she tried to get closer to Leto and really figure out who he was over the years, she didn’t end up being interested in him in more than a friend kind of way.
She honestly thought he was “cringy” instead of dreamy, yet, she agreed to go with him as her feelings were still up in the air.
The day after Martha organized her going to prom with Leto, she instantly felt guilty and like she had made a “mistake” saying yes.
“Now my prom would be an awkward date, instead of the celebration I wanted it to be,” she continued.
“Later that evening he asked me to prom himself saying he wanted to do it formally. That was a very nice thing of him to do but it made me regret saying yes even more.”
“This awkwardness would manifest at my prom, and I just couldn’t see myself with him in that sort of way.”
“Nor do I feel we could attend this just being friends, ignoring the feelings we’ve previously had or he currently has.”
One day after coming to this realization, she revealed to her dad and mom that she didn’t want to go to prom with Leto after all.
Although she took the time to explain her whole situation, her mom was unhappy with her choice, while her dad was sympathetic towards her.
She just felt pressured into going to prom with Leto. She felt pressure from his mom, Martha, and she felt pressure from her family as well.
She was hit with guilt too for saying yes in the first place, and for telling Leto that she had feelings for him when she saw in hindsight that she didn’t.
She then confronted Leto and let him know the truth; she wanted to go to prom alone. After that, she placed a call to Martha, and Martha was quite understanding.
Martha even apologized for being the one to initiate the prom date in the first place, and Martha said that she was “proud” of her for being so honest about her feelings.
Although nobody was truly mad at her when she canceled on Leto, she still feels so bad about changing her mind last minute and going back on what she agreed on.
Do you think she did the right thing by telling everyone she wanted to go to prom alone, instead of with Leto?
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