WHAT WOULD A FIRST DATE BE IF NOT AWKWARD

FIRST DATES ALWAYS HAVE SO MUCH PRESSURE ATTACHED TO THEM. THEY EITHER GO WELL AND YOU GET A CALL THE NEXT DAY...OR THEY CAN GO COMPLETELY WRONG. WELL OUR FIRST DATE WE LIKE TO JOKE ABOUT BECAUSE IT WAS JUST THAT AWKWARD. IT STARTED OUT I WAS HANGING OUT WITH MY FRIEND LUKE AND THEN HE WANTED TO GO SEE THE NEW PLANET OF THE APES MOVIE SO HE INVITED OUR FRIENDS AIMEE AND JOEY. I COULDN'T HELP BUT FEEL A LITTLE AWKWARD RIGHT OFF THE BAT BECAUSE I CLEARLY SAW THAT AIMEE WAS LUKE'S DATE AND COULDN'T HELP BUT THINK THEY WERE TRYING TO SET JOEY AND I UP ON A DATE. WELL IN ANY SENSE WE WENT ALONG WITH IT AND HAD FUN. WE ALL DROVE TOGETHER IN LUKES CAR AND US GIRL PARTIED IN THE BACK SEAT TO JUSTIN BIEBER SONGS WHILE WEARING THE GUYS HATS TO LOOK "GANGSTER".

WE GOT TO THE MOVIE THEATER AND I SAT NEXT TO AIMEE AND JOEY. THE MOVIE STARTED AND I JUST FELT SO AWARE THAT JOEY WAS SITTING NEXT TO ME TRYING TO SHARE THE ARM REST, BUT I'LL ADMIT I'M A PRETTY TERRIBLE ARM REST HOG. SO SINCE I WAS TAKING OVER THE WHOLE ARM REST, POOR JOEY SAT THERE WITH HIS ARM HALFWAY ON THE REST HALFWAY OFF, NOT KNOWING WHETHER TO TAKE THE WHOLE THING OR PUT HIS ARM DOWN OR JUST TAKE MY HAND AND HOLD IT TO SHARE THE SPACE. SO I FELT HIS ARM MOVING SLIGHTLY WHILE HE TRIED TO DECIDE WHAT TO DO AND I REALIZED HOW MUCH I WAS HOGGING THE DARN REST. SO JUST AS I FEEL JOEY REACHING HIS ARM CLOSER TO MINE I TAKE MY ARM DOWN AND JUST FOLD MY ARMS. I FELT SO BAD FOR BOTH DENYING HIM THE PRIVILEGE OF HOLDING MY HAND AND HOGGING THE ARM REST FOR SO LONG. SO WE CONTINUED THROUGH THE MOVIE EVER SO AWKWARDLY. AT ONE POINT IN THE MOVIE JOEY TOOK ME BY SURPRISE AND ACTUALLY ASKED FOR MY PERMISSION TO HOLD MY HAND. I THOUGHT IS WAS THE SWEETEST THING! OF COURSE I TOLD HIM YES, WHY WOULD I SAY NO TO A CUTE REQUEST LIKE THAT?! NOW JOEY AND I WEREN'T LIKE "A COUPLE" OR ANYTHING YET AND WERE STILL GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER SO IT WAS STILL A LITTLE AWKWARD FOR ME TO HOLD HIS HAND BECAUSE I WAS AFRAID HE'D BE LIKE ANY OTHER GUY AND GET THE WRONG IDEA SO I COULDN'T HELP BUT LET OUT A SIGH OF RELIEF AFTER THE MOVIE WAS OVER. I HAD FELT SO INCREDIBLY AWKWARD THAT I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO JUST SIT THERE TO WATCH THE MOVIE, YES I HAD TO TALK MYSELF THROUGH SIMPLY SITTING IN A MOVIE! PATHETIC RIGHT? WELL I FELT LIKE IT. AFTER THE MOVIE WE WENT TO LUKE'S HOUSE AND HUNG OUT THERE FOR A WHILE JUST TALKING AND JUST AS WE THOUGHT, LUKE AND AIMEE WERE TRYING TO HOOK US UP! THEY KEPT TEXTING ME SAYING WE WOULD LOOK SO CUTE TOGETHER OR WE SHOULD BE AN ITEM AND OTHER GOOFY THINGS LIKE THAT SO THE WHOLE TIME I SAT THERE BLUSHING AND POOR JOEY HAD NO IDEA WHY, HE PROBABLY JUST THOUGHT I WAS A NERDY GIRL THAT RANDOMLY TURNED RED! I FINALLY HAD ENOUGH AWKWARDNESS AND DECIDED I SHOULD HEAD HOME TO GET SOME SLEEP SO WHAT DOES JOEY DO? HE SAYS HE'S GOING TO HEAD HOME TOO AND WALKED ME OUTSIDE. WE TALKED A LITTLE MORE, YOU KNOW THAT AWKWARD RANDOM CHIT CHAT WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TO SAY, YA AWKWARD! I NOTICED THAT WHILE WE WERE TALKING WE HAD MOVED CLOSER, I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS BECAUSE IT WAS CHILLY FOR A SUMMER NIGHT OR BECAUSE WE WERE WHISPERING OR IF IT WAS JUST WEIRD AWKWARD CLOSENESS, BUT IT FREAKED ME OUT SO I TOLD JOEY GOODNIGHT AND THAT I WAS HEADING HOME AND THEN THE SHOCK OF A LIFE TIME ARE YOU READY....HE LEANED IN TO KISS ME LIKE IT WAS OBVIOUS HE WAS GOING FOR A KISS AND I COMPLETELY DODGED IT AND TURNED IT TO A FRIENDLY HUG. POOR GUY GOT SHUT DOWN! I FELT SO BAD I GOT IN MY CAR AND CALLED LUKE AND IMMEDIATELY TOLD HIM WHAT HAD HAPPENED AND HE AND AIMEE JUST LAUGHED BECAUSE THEY SAID THERE WAS SOMETHING BETWEEN JOEY AND I AND IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE WE ADMITTED TO IT. I FELT NERVOUS, BUT GIDDY, YET ALSO GUILTY. I AVOIDED TEXTING HIM THE NEXT DAY WHICH I KNOW IS TOTALLY A BAD SIGN, BUT LUKE TOLD ME TO GET OVER IT AND JUST TALK TO JOEY SO I SUCKED IT UP AND TEXTED HIM AND HE PLAYED IT OFF LIKE HE DIDN'T MEAN FOR ME TO GET THE WRONG IDEA AND HE WAS JUST GOING TO HUG ME...HE LATER ADMITTED THAT HE WAS IN FACT TRYING TO KISS ME AND MADE A FOOL OF HIMSELF HAHA NOW AS A JOKE HE ASKS ME FOR PERMISSION BEFORE GIVING ME A KISS OR MAKES A JOKE ABOUT ME TURNING AWAY, AWKWARD FIRST DATES MAKE FOR GREAT EMBARRASSING STORIES TO TELL IN THE FUTURE ;)