Fight or Flight
In the 7th grade I was a very awkward child. Kinda chubby, no fashion sense, and my face generally resembled a gorilla. I had already accepted the fact that boys weren’t going to like me.
One day I was hanging out with a guy friend, Richard. Richard was a sweet kid and pretty cute and I’d met him through another friend. It was just Richard and me chilling in a hallway when he suddenly asked me to the school dance that was happening on Friday.
I couldn’t believe it. A cute guy had just asked me to a dance?! Are you sure this is real life? Say yes, you idiot, say yes!
So of course I did what any reasonable 13 year old girl would do; I screamed and ran away. Richard didn’t want to hang out with me again after that and I still feel bad about to this day, a decade later. Story credit: Reddit / red_raconteur