Multitasking
My Very Worst Date happened during my high school years. I had been spending time with this boy, M, whom I’d worked with for about a year or so. Having found myself newly single, I thought it seemed appropriate that he would become my “rebound” (not to be acted on) crush. But of course, being young and naïve, I actually pursued him anyway.
One day, I invited him to my high school’s football game, and was very excited when he actually showed up. We then spent the night holding hands and laughing with my friends. Because of how well things were going, I didn’t think anything of it when M asked for another friend C’s number and started texting her. After the football game, I said goodbye to my friends and he joined me for a movie with another dating couple. He spent the movie leaning really close to me, and I was expecting him to just kiss me. I hardly noticed him texting on his phone, but we were teenagers, that’s what we did. The night ended oddly, with no kiss or hug or anything cute from M.
After the date, I checked my phone, which had six missed calls, four text messages and a voice message, all from C, saying that I needed to call her right away as she had something to tell me. So at midnight I called her, only for her to start saying how sorry she was, and that M had been texting her all night, and actually asked her out! While I was at the movie with him! Naturally, she had turned him down.
M and I are not on speaking terms anymore.
