ahhh formal is coming up

formal is just like prom.

i.can't. go.

my mom looked it up..asked her friends and they told her that the formal that their kids have gone to..have been just plain bad. you know..like the usual..i'm gonna bring in alcohol..and drugs..so my mom won't let me go.

when i heard about the formal for the first time..i imagined myself in a black number (so beautiful on me) and me with my date...dancing away to wonderful rock music. of course i'm a good girl so i had to go and ask my mom. she looked at me and wanted to know what formal was. i, of course, cut out all my hopes and dreams of dancing with my dates,etc. just told her..it's like a good-bye party for us. you know...go to the dance with friends...etc. etc.

she believed my shortened version and said,"let me think about it,kay?"
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i waited...i waited...
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she still hasn't made up her mind..but finally she took me aside and told me about all the things that had happened at formal before and told me that she would rather me not go to formal. i understood her...i didn't get mad (surprising, not even sad) apparently i wasn't that much interested to go to formal in the first place...

~dreamer