At the beginning of seventh grade, the girls in my class started asking out the boys they liked. It became a thing they did at recess. Each day, after lunch, the boys would play basketball. While all the girls would stand in a group, just behind the basket ball net, watching the boys. And at least once a day, a girl would yell over the noise of the basket ball game to ask a boy to go out with her friend. A girl never asked out a boy directly.  Usually, during this daily drama, I stood and bore witness. Mostly [...]