I was like 15-16? and realized that I was the age where it was common to start dating. I was curious about the hype and didn’t want to to an outlier so I decided to get myself a boyfriend. I asked a random boy, who was above average in height and looks, for his number. After that I got straight to the point and asked him out.

Our first date was at a movie theater, because I believed that was a common first date. Our second date we went mini golfing, I kissed him on the cheek because I decided he was to timid to initiate it and I had to fulfill the normal second date requirements. Our third date was at the zoo, pro-protocol, I kissed him. This was because out of the many people I interviewed, the 3rd date was commonly decided to be the “kissing date”

We continued to date some more after that. On our 6th date, he tried to say “I love you”-I cut him off by saying “nope” as it was far to early for that according to general consensus. (Also I didn’t feel comfortable saying that to him). After I had decided that I fulfilled the healthy teenage milestone, I broke up with him. Overall I was satisfied and didn’t want to go further until I was older. I told him the basic, “it’s not you, it’s me” and paid for his food and left. I was super happy afterwards, as I now had more free-time.

My parents still refer to these events as my “experiment”. I refer to it as, “that time I decided I needed a boyfriend”

why were you treating being a teenager like a list that you had to check off and complete 😭😭😭😭 sjkjskjaskjkas

I didn’t want to get a bad grade in “being an average person”