My Homecoming Experience

Pre-Homecoming

I've told my mom that I'm not going anymore... My brother is giving Liz's ticket to his friend. I'm trying to sell my ticket to anyone... We're supposed to meet up at 8:00 pm at the entrance. My brother showers, we still have to eat though. My brother invites her girlfriend and her parents to come eat with us. I decide that I should go. We'll be a group... I can't let a ticket go I waste. After eating I go to shower and get ready. It's pretty much 7:00 by now. I get dressed in some fancy but not too fancy clothes. Nothing like my brother and his girlfriend. She's wearing a black dress, and he's wearing a suit? Or tux? I'm just wearing a dress shirt and some grey pants.

Throughout the night I feel disappointed. I'm not sure if I feel sad, but definitely disappointed. I feel like this is my brother's night, and I'm just an observer. A background character. The longer we stay outside taking photos of my brother and his girlfriend the more and more homecoming looks further away. I get a weird feeling. Almost as if nothing is gonna happen. I feel that we'll get dressed and take pictures, but then that will be the end of the night...

Taking your girlfriend to homecoming is something special, you move up a rank in manliness (Or something). His father gives my brother a few words about taking care of her daughter, and we get in the truck. He must be excited and nervous. I don't feel much. I just hope that the step-mom won't talk to me cuz I can't understand anything she says when she speaks to me.

Finally we show up.