"It was you I wanted to go to the dance with. All my preparations, the limo, the dinner, are all for you, Jen. I thought you wouldn't be able to find a date. But then Norman asked you, and you said yes. I talked to Norman and he was very helpful. So my plan somehow got a little bit twisted. And besides, I heard he likes Leslie, who by the way had no date because I turned her down when she asked me." Eric was looking at my eyes again. But then, the food arrived. We ate in silence... me, trying to absorb every word that he said a while ago, and him, trying to muster all the courage to finish what he had started, I guess.