Giddy

Problem #8 - I Hope You Dance

I went to a dance at the beach. It was a lot of fun. The DJ had to mash up every song that played and remix it and it threw us off a lot, but it was still lit. It's probably the best dance I've gone to this year... for more than a few reasons.

So my friend invited someone to this dance.

Zac.

He's been captain of the All Male dance team at my school. I'm not sure if he still is though... Anyways, tonight was a good night because he asked me to dance during a slow song. The friend who invited him kept telling him about how I dance a lot and am pretty good at it. He's been to a dance before and I got to show him what I could do and I'm pleased to say he was impressed.

Tonight, I was actually moving around a lot and got into the middle of the circle. We were on sand so I couldn't do any b-boying without kicking sand into people's eyes. Anyhow, I was dancing a lot. To be quite honest, I was more trying to keep warm by moving around a lot because it was freezing there.

I caught his gaze a few times before he asked me to dance. I could see he was talking to my friend and I'd see them both looking at me and her mouth my name so I pretty much understood that I was being talked about. It was a nice feeling.

So to the part where he asked me to dance...

It was the second slow dance of the night and I walked away from my circle of friends in hopes of having someone ask me to dance that I didn't know. Well I had also gotten sand in my eye so I was stepping back and away to rub at my eye. Then I saw Zac making his way toward me. I partially convinced myself that he wasn't actually going to come up to me and ask me to dance, but he proved me wrong.

I always notice when a guy doesn't put his hand in the right place. One, because his hand will obviously be lower and at my waist and it's a sensitive spot for me (I'm not ticklish there; that's not what I mean by sensitive). That's where he put his hand though when I took his other hand. But I didn't feel awkward or anything.

I was actually giddy.

Is it bad that I feel like I got the upper hand? Because I know my friend clearly likes him, or at least is slightly attracted to him.

It's also just cool because we communicate best through dance. He actually kind of watches me because he'll catch on to a move I do. He did that a lot after we slow danced so we'd just glance towards each other and embrace our love for dance.

But all through the night we shared little moments.

What happened isn't a problem. It's great. It's just...

Problem number eight is: what do I do now?