Dating my best friend

42nd Street

Come and meet those dancing feet...

This show was the first musical I did at Forsyth Central High School. I know I will never forget that I did this show. It left such an impact on my life. I am now in the theatre family. Before the show our musical theatre class was separated by freshies and upperclassmen, but during/after the musical, everyone was together. I loved every single person in that show.

One day Jackson, who is in my musical theatre class, called me deaf bitch. Ever since that has been my nick name for me. Of course his friends started tagging along too, so I decided to change my name in the 42nd Street GroupMe to "Deaf Girl." Then everyone started calling me it to the point people did not even know my actual name. I thought it was funny. Some people got defensive for me, but if you know me you know I really don't care about that stuff. Jackson is a really sweet human being. I will never forget one night before the show started he came up to me and said, "You are so talented. I am so proud of you. So proud." I will never forget what he said, just something like that means so much to me. I just feel a brother/sister relationship with him and I will always look up to him.

The senior circle was the worst part of it all. Senior circles are basically when seniors are in the centers and they say how theatre/show has impacted their lives. They all will be missed in the theatre program and this was my first show with all of them, but they all have still impacted me so much. The ones that got to me the most were Marcello, Chris, Ethan, and Eleanor. Marcello is an amazing guy and I had him in theatre and swim. It sucks that he has to leave two families, but I am so grateful that I have met him. He was the first one I hugged and he made me cry the most, I love him so much. Chris is just one of the sweetest people I have ever met. We would always slut drop together. He always gave compliments to everyone and he is so amazing at everything he does. Ethan is so hilarious and he knows how to talk to people. He is so genuine and kind. Him and Chris are friends and they are the iconic duo. I will miss seeing them just break out "fighting" in the gayest way possible. Eleanor and I don't really talk much,  but she has been in some of my projects in musical theatre and she is so funny. I just hate that they are all leaving, but I hope they have so much fun in college, or whatever they do.

This was also a time that was a little rocky with Dakota. I sometimes think that he didn't do this when we were just friends. He was sound booth during this show.  There were some times that I was upset with him and I am putting this here to show that obviously we aren't perfect, but we learn to move past it.

Basically he would always put me down and I didn't want him to think that was okay. Even if he didn't mean to, I still wanted him to know. There were just some points where he would be talking about how one night he messed up a lot of sound cues, and then turn it on me. He pointed out things I did bad, rather then telling me what I did good. I basically tried to tell him how I would never do that to him, so I don't understand why he would. I just felt like he was insecure and wanted to take me down with him. For a while I didn't talk to him,then he apologized and gave chocolate and a stuff animal to me. I accepted it. Not because of the gifts, but because he apologized in person.

He would continue to do similar things, but I would not have it. I wanted him to understand my point and he did. Yes sometimes I worry that I sound mean. Especially maybe when he reads this part, but I am just being honest.

We learn to work through it just like any other people would. I love him so much. Yes there are times where it is a little rocky, but no relationship is perfect. It is good to go through this because, " A relationship with no arguments is a relationship with a lot of secrets."-unknown