So, yeah.. I got up enough nerve to ask Peggy Sue to the school dance. She was new, only been in town a couple of months. People thought her and her brothers were a little strange. I liked her. It was my last year in Middle School and I had really mastered the “Mashed Potato”, maybe a little ashamed that my Grandmother taught me the moves though.
I waited for her at the double doors that led into the gymnasium. I could hear the music blaring – Chubby Checkers “Twist”. Barely kept my feet still.
I blushed when she walked up. My cheeks were normally red because I was chunky and always hot.
She raised my temperature, looking astonishing in her pink poodle skirt and black patent-leather loafers. Her ponytail was flawless. Ooooh weeee…
I followed her lead when she took my hand and we waited for a bit in a oddly perfect single file line, something my peers and I couldn’t master on a school day.
I noticed her brothers at the front, helping kids through a door flashing with luminescent lights. I thought it was all part of the awesomely themed dance “Time to Glow”.
Roger, the school nerd; we always sat together at lunch, stood with his back to me. I tapped him on the shoulder. He turned to look. At first all I could see were his broken glasses, tape holding them together, barely balancing on his pointy nose.
When I realized his eyes were glazed over, I ran so fast towards the exit. The exercise made me think twice about ever having donuts for supper again.
By the time I exited the front door, Peggy Sue and her other brothers were already there waiting to escort me back. Out of breath, I gave in but, not before getting a glance of the night sky and the monstrous, silver, metal, disc hovering above the building.
Outlined were children being drug into the UFO by a beam of light. I tried to fight but my Sunday shoes made it even easier for them to pull me in. When it was my turn to enter and rightfully so, I could hear Jackie Wilson playing through the speakers. “Your love is lifting me higher.” This wasn’t my night.
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