My First Steady Boyfriend

Shortly after starting school in Reeds Spring, I had a couple dates---then through the summer I didn't have any dates. I didn't care, I was having a great time at and on the lake.

About two months into my junior year, a girl came up to me in music class and said she knows someone who likes me a lot but he is afraid to ask me out. No one likes rejection afterall! She asked me if I would go out with him if he asked me? He was a very likable guy and quite cute so I said yes I would go if he asked me. He asked me out that same afternoon after school and walked me to my bus. His name was Elmer. He had a good sense of humor and was fun to be with.
We went to a movie the following Friday night in Branson. Reeds Spring didn't have a movie theatre. I can't remember what the movie was but they previewed "Blue Hawaii". It would start playing the next night. I said something like "oh, I bet that will be so good". He asked me if I wanted to go out with him the next night to that movie and I said yes. He tried to give me his class ring the first date (to go steady), but I didn't take it. He offered it again on Saturday night, so I took it.

There weren't that many boys in the dating pool. It was a small school and our class was very small. There were only around 24 of us in our graduation class the next year. So we probably had 10 to 12 boys and most of them were already going with someone. I wouldn't say I used him because that would not be nice, but by wearing his ring I was sure to have a date to all the important events. He may have given me the ring for the same reason (which would not have been nice either!!) lol

I did date a couple seniors when I was a junior so there were other fish in the sea. I liked one in particular and dated him quite a few times, but just every now and then when I would break up with Elmer. Elmer didn't like him much. lol