It was a game she played with all of us kids, catch her and you won the prize! During my few years as a student at Elmwood Elementary School, I was around 8 years old. I was not the greatest student in the class; it was hard to concentrate, hard to focus on anything. It didn’t help that I was around 80 pounds soaking wet, and I was always in trouble for something (at least it seemed that way). I always found myself hanging out with all the wrong kids or did they hang out with me, I really don’t know (point is we always found each other). To this day I remember the class bully, Damon was his name, and of course he and I were almost best friends. He would pick on all the kids in our class and sometimes me (what a friend, I realize that now).
As we would all get to class there was only one thing that kept all of our attention and her name was Kelley, she was the girl that all guys had dreams about, but had no idea what to do with. She would just brighten up the class, long brown hair, bright blue eyes, and for a 6th grader a woman’s body (so we thought as kids). Kelley, as I remember would not date any guy in the class, all of us had tried and all of us had failed, she never gave any one a reason why she would not date, she just wouldn’t.
One day something strange happened, Kelley came into class and as usual all of us guys were just surrounding her, then it happened, one of the guys asked her out and she said yes. She began to tell all of us that she would give us all a chance to date her if we wanted (which we did). There was only one catch, “if you want to date me, you have to catch me on the play ground at recess time and give me a kiss.” Ok, we said, and the game was on. It just so happened that it took me weeks to get myself to the point that I could run as fast as Kelley, (was she FAST), faster than almost every kid in school. Of course she knew this that is why she started this little game of hers, she knew hardly any of us could catch her...