MY FUTURE

So I had the opportunity to go to a dance with my friends Adrian, Jeassica, and Sondi. First of all we had a difficult time finding the place but when we got to our location there was only a handful of cars in the parking lot. Lokking around I say, "Really we are not staying are we". The girls reply, "we should go in and check it out". I surrender to the peer pressure and follow my three friends into what I will refer to as "The Island of Misfit Toys". Sadly I am one of those toys at the moment. I am looking around and thinking to myself and then say very loudly, "these people sure look old". I give in once again to the peer pressure of my friends ( which is very unlike me normally) and I begin shaking my groove thing. Some of the tunes that are being enjoyed are "White Wedding", "Tootsie Roll", and they even play a little Divo. I have officially entered the Twilight Zone. In the middle of my sassy little booty shake a woman taps me on the shoulder and asks, "Is this your first time here" and I say, "Uh huh". To my surprise she informs me that this dance is 31 to 45 singles. I begin laughing hysterically yet again and turn to my friends and say, " Remeber when we are under age". I guess the jokes on us. We decide to get a drink and regroup. I must admit however that we were the best things that had ever happened that dance and I was feeling beautiful. We decide to dance a little more but I sit out for a moment alone in the lobby to pull myself together. Just as the friends walk away a suiter approaches. He looks and says, "So is this your first time here" ( I am thinking wow this must be some underground club that we just happened to fall upon) of course I reply, "Yes it is" well as he pulls out his phone he says, " my name is mike what is yours." Let me just say he is about 5'6", 45yrs old and 150. No thanks! I politely say, "my name is Leah". He shakes my hand and I decide that eye contact is just encouraging him and I turn away. He continues asking where I am from because I have a really cute accent. Why is that I am only approached by the little ones. I think he got the drift when I would not make eye contact because he fianlly put the phone away shook my hand and was on his way. Scary! I quickly found the friends danced a couple more times and left in a hurry. The worst part about the whole situation is that I felt myself staring my not so far future in the face. Though it was frightening I did learn a very valuable lesson and that is next time just stay in the car!