No problem. So, in my newfound Cyrano de Bergerac role (sans the nose), here goes:
Meaghan Ryan,
Brett Reynolds would like to ask you to the prom. Would you like to go with him?
I have to admit, I paused when this came across my inbox. What if she turns him down? Asking your girlfriend to prom is pretty standard, and dating for five months in high school is about the same as being married for as many years in adult life. Still, it’s a pretty gutsy move.
I asked him if he was worried at all. A little, Brett answered, but not too much.
“I just hope she thinks it’s really cool and sweet and brags about it to her friends,” he said.
Brett said he and Meaghan met in a class the two had together their junior year, but didn’t start dating until this year.
“I was really slow in making the first move,” he said, “but it all worked out.”
According to Brett, finding innovative ways to ask your date to prom is just part of modern high school life. Some guys put up posters on the balcony, or write their invitations in colored chalk outside the school. He needed something different.
“You want to do something where everyone says, ‘Wow, see what he did?’” Brett said. “You want to do something where the other girls get jealous.”
Well said, Brett. Let us know how it turns out.
Much to my surprise, innovative prom stories are all around town. On Tuesday, I ate lunch at California Pizza Kitchen on Brand Boulevard, a scant block away from the world headquarters of the Glendale News-Press and Burbank Leader.
