making out

Take a trip in time with me all the way back to September 17, 1999. Everyone was busy getting ready for the new millennium. We were scared of Y2K. The #1 song in the country was a little diddy by my friend Enrique Iglesisas called “Bailamos.” Times were good. I was an 8th grader at Chestnut Grove Middle School in the booming metropolis of King, North Carolina. September 17 was a Friday. I left school that day and went home to do what every other 8th grader did at the time: I got on AOL Instant Messenger. That afternoon, I got an instant message from a girl I was friends with. This girl was very pretty. She was a cheerleader and we had a few classes together. We had the typical middle school opening conversation of, “Hey. Hi. What’s up? Nothing much. You? Same.” Then she asked me a simple,…