First Kiss

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Do you remember your first kiss? I was in 7th grade. Yea... I waited.  I was a good girl. And, I was finally out of my tom-boy stage. I knew that boys no longer had cooties. They were touchable now.

Let me set the stage for you.

It was true love as we knew it and his name was Fred. 

He was a cutie. 

All the girls liked him. 

He liked me.

We lived in Guam. 

Both fathers were military. 

Same grade. 

Same school. 

Same friends.

We were at an outdoor movie theater. All my friends and I sat in the front-middle row. Fred met me there. He sat down beside me. 

I said "Hi". 

Then he said "Hi". 

Yep, true love. 

And, with a man who is was not afraid to show his true feelings.

 Fred and I looked at each other, smiled, stood up 

and moved to the front-side row so we could be 'alone'.

This was it. 

No words were spoken. 

We knew what was about to happen. 

This was the moment all my friends talked about. 

My first kiss. 

How awesome this would be. 

Just a light touch of the lips is all that was needed 

to show our devotion to one another. 

He leaned in towards my face. 

Smiled at me. 

His lips touched mine.

Then suddenly...with our lips still pressed together, we started laughing. 

Oh no! 

Our braces got stuck together! 

Oh my gosh! 

We couldn't pull apart!

About that time our friends looked over at us.

They thought we were really getting in to this kiss.

They all came to watch. 

Then my friend Linda noticed what had happened. 

"Pull away from each other!"

One. 

Two. 

Three. 

Snap!

We were apart. But, our braces were broken. 

Fred got up and ran out of the theater. 

I got up and went to the bathroom mirror to check out the damage. 

The wire that went across my braces was now sticking straight out of my mouth. It had already cut my lip. I was already bleeding. I had to walk home from the theater holding my lip up so it wouldn't cut me anymore. Linda walked with me. 

We thought up a story about how this "really" happened. 

We blamed it on popcorn seeds. 

Emergency trip to the dentist the next day. 

Monday at school. 

Humiliation. 

Fred wouldn't speak to me. 

His friends laughed when I walked by. 

My first true love...gone. 

Just like that. 

But that kiss...

my very first kiss...

it's definitely one I won't ever forget!!!