Guess who I ran into after 10+ years?! UPDATE 2
So back story. It's a bit long so bare with me. Back in High school when I was 15 I liked this guy. I was ummm... Not even REMOTELY cute. I was a chubby red head with freckles and wore pig tails and barrettes wayyy past the age it's appropriate. Honestly I don't look much different from 15. Still chubby, still red hair, but I wear my hair down and no fucking stupid ass barrettes. Plus I did have braces for an overbite. Braces look so cute on so many people. I was not one of them... Honestly if I can find a picture from then I'll post it so you can see. I was a fugly motherfucker.... Now this guy I liked was kind of emo, but so how (as in 15 year old me thinking he's hot, not adult me thinking a 15 year old is hot lol). Plus he was friendly and popular but not like mean popular. Like the friends with everyone popular. Well everyone except me because honestly I looked like Rupert Gint and Johnathan lipnicki through his fat phase hooked up and had a fugly ass kid. I had 1 friend... And she was the same friend throughout middle school to 11th grade. Anyway I really liked him. He also went to my YMCA aftercare program. Well the aftercare program was a separate thing but done in the YMCA. They had the younger kids separated from the older kids and we all went on different outings. So during the summer we all went to day camp there, including the guy I liked. Well day camp ended up hosting a giant sleepover for all kids 13 and up. Now if the description of me didn't make you realize how much of a typical high school nobody I was, well I wet the bed up until age 17? I think.. Idk the age it stopped is neither here nor there. I used goodnites at night which is pretty much just pull ups with a bigger kid on the box. That 1 friend I had did know. So of course I pack goodnites for this giant weekend sleepover. Honestly, all in all I remember this boy girl sleepover being kind of lame. Another thing about this day camp and not even just the day camp, that after school program period... They didn't do a good job at... Their job.. I can't speak for the younger kids because they were always separated from us, but they just did a bad job supervising us. Especially during the sleepover. We all slept in the gym and half the time there wasn't even a staff member watching us. We are all horny teens so it could have gotten real nasty and sexual in there. We also could have just decided to start killing each other, because why not lol. But honestly it was decently chill. At least the first night. The second is where things got kind of bad. Personally I don't completely know what happened because while everyone was in the gym, I was in the bathroom playing with my dolls... 15 and playing with dolls... Geez and I wonder why I never had a boyfriend in school🥴. But after an hour my friend got me and told me to stop being a loner and come back. I was back in the gym and everyone was huddled being all secretive. Im like, "What I miss?" And my friend rolled her eyes and said everyone is being immature because someone found a wet bedwetting pull up. At first I was thinking that maybe a girl saw mine in the trash, but according to my friend it was found in the boys bathroom. I didn't pay any mind and honestly just wanted to go back and play with my dolls... I did a lot of things wayy past the appropriate age lol. I was also staring at the guy I liked, like dumb 15 year old girls do. He was talking to this guy that was like his best friend back then. A few people ended up going to get ready for bed early, but I didn't yet and stayed talking to my friend. The guy I liked was one of them who went to get ready for bed early. This next situation also shows how BADLY we were supervised. Some of the boys manager to get ahold of those giant orange water tubs they use for big events or at foot ball games. They went outside (we were fenced in so maybe that's why the staff didn't care if we went outside) and filled it up outside. They brought it back inside and I had no idea what those dumbasses where doing. Guy I like is throwing volleyballs around the gym with his friend and I look away and then hear people roar in laughter. I look back and one of the guys pantsed the guy I like. He was wearing a goodnites like mine except for boys. Then they dumped that entire tub or water over his head all over him. That was really not nice and he looked mortified. One of his friends helped him out of the gym and 20 minutes later two staff members came to scold us and told us to go to bed. Then went back to not supervising us... From what I heard his friend say to another friend the staff had let the guy I like sleep in the younger kids playroom so he wouldn't be embarrassed to face everyone. I felt bad for him. After getting water dumped on him or probably most definitely soaked his goodnite. I only had one left but I just felt so awful for him that I snuck out of the gym and went to the younger kids playroom. Put the goodnite on the floor, knocked on the door he ran. He didn't see me but I saw him and he looked very greatful. I ended up just waking up earlier than everyone else to clean my mess and shower before anyone saw. To this day I don't think he knows it was me who left it. After all that once we got back to school the guy I liked stop being the extremely friendly person he was. He wasn't mean or anything but he stopped being everyone's friend and only hung out with specific friends. We never talked and I never had the courage to talk to him. Sorry for the extremely long back story. Well yesterday I was at the library, and our down town library has a Starbucks. I was in there reading and I hear someone say "Deedee?" I looked and it was that guy I liked from high school. I hadn't seen him in 10+ years! I was also wondering how he even knew my name since we didn't talk and the only person who knew my name at school was my only friend and teachers. He asked if I remembered him and we went to school together. I said yes and he asked if he could sit and we talked. I was honest with him and said I didn't know he knew my name. He goes "Yeah. You were the cute girl with the pigtails." Ugh he had to bring up those cringy ass pigtails. I did enjoy catching up with him. He said he moved here after a break up with his girlfriend and funny thing is he lives like the next street over from me. He asked if we could exchange numbers and I agreed. He texted me soon after he left. We actually have a lot of favorite books in common and have been texting a lot talking about them. I still even after texting him don't think he knows it was me who left him that goodnite but it does seem I wasn't AS invisible to him as I thought. He remembered I wore pigtails and sadly remembered the extremely glittery barrettes I wore to prom. Another change coincidence, I left my toxic ex 2 weeks ago lol. Funny how life is.
Update: Awww you guys are sweet! So he called a bit ago to talk before bed and I did ask if he remembered that boy girl sleepover at the Y. He said "Yeah... I try to forget it. Was secretly hoping you had too" He did a nervous laugh. I asked if he remembered someone leaving him a goodnite outside the younger kids playroom. He goes "Yeah... Wait a minute that was you?!" I told him yeah. I felt bad I knew what it was like to wet the bed. He thanked me and said I really had no idea the impact that made on him because he felt like almost everyone was against him and was just gonna bully him and to know that someone actually went that far to help him made him feel a lot better that night. Before getting off the phone he told me "If there's anyone from high school I could have run into, I'm glad it was you." That made me feel really happy. He also had said he thought the way I dressed in high school was cute...Yeah nope... I was not cute lol but I appreciated what he said!
Update2: So just wanted to let you guys know I just got back from a date with him! We went to see stand up comedy and it was really fun. We really got to know each other. He actually told me he didn't consider himself popular in school. He just liked being nice and making people laugh, which honestly makes what they did to him back then even more shitty. I told him how I still played with dolls at 15 and he said he played dolls to spend time with his little sister for years and still does now if she asks. It all just went really well and we are planning to hang out again tomorrow! But just for something small like the park!
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