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I've don't a story on a neckbeard I dated in high school, now for one of the MANY creepy neckbeards that have hit on me during high school. See, I was a bit of an inbetweener in high school and hung out with a lot of different groups. Most of the guys in the nerdy groups I hung out with were neckbeards. And I didn't really catch on to that mentality until much later in high school. I thought that's just how guys are,because so many people in my group felt that way. Anyway, here's a story about a guy in gonna call "graveyard boy". You'll see why later on. Cast: Me: 5'6" 112 lbs. I didn't really have a look that fit in with the nerd groups but I had a lot of similar interests. However, I wasn't too obsessed with any one thing which made it easy for me to move from group to group. I admittedly like the nerds and goth cliques better because they seem to agree with nearly everything I say and I rarely had to deal with any conflict (disregarding obvious motives)
Graveyard boy: average build. Wants to be hardcore and goth but fits in much better with the nerds. Also, his hair is so white that he can't dye it black properly. Always posting edgy pictures of himself on Facebook with cringey captions in blood red font. Now all he posts are "check your inbox" copy pastes and love quizzes on Facebook.
Obscura: graveyard boy's cousin. Her favorite thing to talk about is how people always spell her obscure name wrong. Hence the nickname Obscura. Always hangs out with the rednecks who damaged their brains by huffing paint and crashing their dirt bikes.
Bird person: God coming up with code names is hard lol. Graveyard boy's older sister. Her mother supposedly held her back a grade so she could be with her brother. I hung out with her pretty often up until 11th grade. Really likes naruto and is obsessed with China. Always asks about my Chinese step mom and what she makes for dinner... For some reason.
Waifu: graveyard boy's little sister. Sat with me and my sister at lunch in 12th grade. Obsessed with Japan and "learning" Japanese. Always asks for me to help her study it but refuses to put the work in. Tells her brother ways he can get me that are just wrong and seem to be based off of a Japanese romance manga in the comedy genre.
Teacup: graveyard boy's date to prom. Broke up with him a week before. Still went with him. Has a teacup pig and is pretty cool.
Ok, onto the story. First a little background. Graveyard boy has been in my class since kindergarten, but I didn't hang out with him until high school. Or at least I can't remember hanging out with him until then. After elementary, we got detached from our small group of classmates and shoved into mixed classes. This was better for leaving embarrassing mistakes behind and being able to live down a rejection or two. In comes Obscura. She was a tomboy type of girl who thought of herself as the nerd's wing woman. She thought she knew just what to say and do to get any girl to date her cousin and his friends. However, graveyard boy was too shy to ever say anything to me in person. He always had Obscura talk to me for him, even on Facebook. After many attempts to pressure me into dating her cousin, graveyard boy comes up with a brilliant plan. He organizes a whole date for us, but alas, couldn't talk to me himself so he had Obscura do it. She comes up to me and says that Graveyard boy wanted me to be his date to his grandmother's funeral, and that afterward, him and his parents would take me out to dinner and dessert. Hence the name Graveyard Boy.
Now, onto the main event. Graveyard Boy: Prom night!
At this point, I had been in a serious relationship with a guy for two years. During one of these years, he was in basic and specialty training in the military. Though we didn't officially get engaged because of the distance, we were planning on getting married after I graduated. This is important to the story as everyone knew we were basically engaged.
However, I really wanted to go to prom, even if I couldn't go with my fiancée. So, I bought myself a ticket. There was just one problem though, I didn't have a license. So, I couldn't drive to prom. Normally I'd do it anyway, but this is the country and the prom venue is nearly two hours away through a majorly confusing college campus and highways. So, I started asking around to see if I could get a ride.
First, I ask Bird Person. However, she said that she wasn't going to prom. Buuttt, she said her brother was. I keep that in the back of my head as I ask around some more. Most of my friends were seniors and had already graduated, my other friends were in the lower grades and couldn't go. So, I had limited options.
I asked Waifu if she thought her brother would give me a ride. She smiled really big at the thought because she knew her bother had been trying to get me to go somewhere with him for a while. She said he probably Would if I paid for gas, and that he already had a date to the prom.
Hearing that he had a date already, I felt confident that Graveyard boy wouldn't do anything to make me or my fiancée uncomfortable. He was iffy on me going even by myself. So I went up and asked him if I could get a ride to prom. Emphasizing the ride part. I also told him that is pay him for gas and I'd buy my own food. He also told me that he had a date, but I didn't mind. I would've been surprised if he thought he was getting laid by this girl. Apparently Teacup has been with a large amount of the chess team, but she didn't seem too keen about Graveyard boy.
Probably due to the fact that he has anger issues he doesn't feel like controlling because he thinks it makes him look manly. "I'm very protective" "I have issues" type of guy.
On the day of prom, he arrived to my house with his date. All is normal. He waits outside for me and my mom takes pictures as we get ready to leave. It's raining so we're in a hurry. As my mom is snapping the last pictures, he pulls out a corsage... For me. I didn't give him any details about my dress because it wasn't a date. I didn't even post it on Facebook. However, I did wear it to prom the year before. So he must've remembered what color it was.
I told him that he didn't need to get me a corsage because we weren't going together and single girls don't wear corsages. He insisted that his grandma (the not dead one) wanted him to get it for me, and that it wasn't very expensive. So, I reluctantly put it on.
After this, we went to his house to get pictures with his grandma. She took many of them, and I even told her that I was just tagging along. Nevertheless she wanted pictures of all of us. Graveyard Boy even went so far as to put his arms around the both of us (no hover hand). Then he posted the pictures to Facebook with the caption "two prom dates". 😣
Before prom we went to Steak n' Shake. I had plenty of money to pay for my dinner and gas. Graveyard boy suggested we all get shakes with our dinner and I thought "why not?". Teacup and I bonded a little more than me and graveyard. She seemed a little spiteful of him, but I didn't know why at the time.
After the waitress came to give us the bill, I told her that she could split the check. However, Graveyard boy refused to let me pay for it (even though this was a stipulation in our original agreement. I was supposed to pay my way.) he insisted that it was his treat and his grandma gave him too much money to spend. I kind of understood that. It made me uncomfortable to have people pay for my stuff, even on a date. However the previous year, everyone in my group had so much money they were left with at least a hundred dollars afterward. People overestimate how much prom dinner is.
At prom, I sat with my nerd friends and graveyard boy. Most of us wanted to dance, even lonely old me. Except graveyard. He sat in his chair looking super grumpy. I asked Teacup why he didn't want to dance with her (still assuming they were dating) and she told me they broke up a few days before. After a while of me dancing with his girl, graveyard got really mad and stormed out of the venue. His friends from the nerd table went after him and so did I. Needless to say, this made Teacup super uncomfortable and upset because she knew she was the one who made him upset but didn't know what to do about it.
Outside his friends tried to get him to calm down. He explained that he had abandonment issues and it was hard for him to let her go. Even though they dated for about two weeks.
We stopped at Teacup's house after prom to get dressed. I didn't know the girl too well but I didn't have a problem changing in front of her. Of course graveyard boy stayed in the car. It was at this time that I screamed loudly at the realization that her "pig statue" was an actual sleeping pig. She had a pet pig inside her house!
When we went to after prom, graveyard was absent from the fun. I played laser tag with my friends and later met with Teacup as we raced through a bouncy castle maze. And I won a free pizza in the raffle. (Real mature after party right? Last year we had gambling). Graveyard boy won a gift card to a jewelry outlet where he lamented that he had no one to spend it on.
After this it was time for us to go home. He dropped off Teacup first, which made for a really awkward ride home for me. Teacup lived about a half hour+ away from me.
During the ride home, graveyard got super serious. Earlier in the night he joked (too much) that his grandma gave him a pack of magnums just in case. Now he was confiding in me about how he was still a virgin and how he would be a total loser in college if he didn't lose if before he graduated. Then he said something like "I know I'll never use these (condoms) unless you wanted to..."
I told him, again, that I was engaged and that I wouldn't be doing anything with him. Even after that he suggested it multiple times before the ride was over. Then, as he dropped me off, he gave me the package of condoms. As he "had no use for them". I threw them in my medicine cabinet just in case my sister ever needed them. I didn't tell her where they came from. I knew she wouldn't use them if I did.
Bonus: graveyard was my graduation buddy (we met in the middle of the hall during the graduation ceremony and then sat next to each other). Neither of us mentioned the extreme awkwardness of that day, even though he still thinks I was his date. The reason I never got as close to him as my other friends is that his constant advances made me back away. Could not get close to him ever.
There are more neckbeards BTW. Quite a few more.