I just realized that I have Homecoming in 3 weeks. Holly sh*t. I'm freaking out. I'm a junior (11th grade) and homecoming is suppose to be this great memory. My game is not very strong and I'm dual enrolling at a very small state college(dual enrollment is when you take your last 2 years of high school on a collage campus to get your AA before you graduate high school) so there is few targets. Pretty much all of the desirable targets go to the high school. I want this homecoming not to suck. I want good memories. What should I do to get a date? I'm freaking out! AHHHHH!!!

Well, surely you know someone you'd like to take to homecoming right?

I too am doing this college program. I'll be a senior, just completed my junior year of highschool and one year of college. It's a breeze by the way haha.

Anyways. Just find a girl you'd like to take to homecoming. She doesn't have to go to your school. Just think of all the girls you know and then pick one you'd like to take to homecoming. Talk to her in person a little here and there (maybe hang out) and text her here and there as well. One key text you want to send is asking her what her favorite flowers are (this will get her thinking!)

Then one day drop off her favorite flowers at her school/work, whatever works for you. Write something like...
"By the time homecoming comes these flowers may fade, but I'd like to be on your side that special day."
Or you can write whatever you want.


I did this and it worked for prom last year, until I found out she had a boyfriend.... didn't go to the dance then haha. It should work for you too!

Good luck my man!

I just typed all of the text underneath this sentence and realized 99.6% of it is completely irrelevant to anything. So I apologize in advance, as it was very nice reminiscing. So all in all, just be casual and don't ask random people. I had three random girls ask me to prom my senior year and rejected all three of them since we talked once or twice. You want someone that you're comfortable with and who's comfortable with you. You're putting WAY too much thought into this whole idea of homecoming. It's nothing special and your main hope will be going to a good after party.


I'll just go into my junior and senior year homecomings. I played football so everybody expected me to go. Junior year I went with a cheerleader. It was a group of 12, 6 football players and 4 cheerleaders and 2 random girlfriends. The girl I went with was actually a close friend and we had a mutual agreement of going together to everything. From watching my buds invite her friends, I realized the biggest thing you gotta do is make the invitation as casual as you can. It's just a dance following a football game. And it's not even that fun. Nobody does anything romantic to invite girls to homecoming. If they do, it's those guys that think they have no chance so they try to pull it out of their asses.
Anyway, senior year I really didn't want to go, until some assholes nominated me for homecoming court. Still said I wasn't going to go to which they said I must (private Catholic school, they do what they want). Still played football but, as you would never believe, ALSO did the dual enrollment with a local college. Put my head in the books and football (was getting D2 offers and a D1 from Holy Cross, ended up going to a D3 school on an education scholarship after blowing out my back mid-season senior year) so I didn't go with the football crowd anymore. Asked our valedictorian to go with me.

Since she was never expecting it, this is what I did:
Tell my AP Eng teacher, who I was more than chill with, that I'm going to sit next to this girl. Worked with her on a project and met up in the library. In the library, told her that I want to get food with her after school so she could explain to me rhetorical terms in one of the short stories (this was bs, was just trying to build rapport). We got takeout and went to my house. After 10 minutes of her explaining some stuff to me, we started getting to know each other. Next day in school, which was a Friday, luckily she didn't have plans and I told her we should get food and then go to a football party. We did and I spent the whole night with her just mainly talking outside since it wasn't her crowd. Saturday had no contact with her. Sunday went to her church and met her parents. Note, that even though I went to Catholic school, I reject all religion and don't go to church. Next day on Monday, which was the start of the homecoming week, I asked her to homecoming. Was thinking of doing it in class but it was the first period and nobody was feeling it. Instead, told her we should meet up and eat lunch together. During lunch, told her that I've enjoyed getting to know her the last week and find myself comfortable with her despite the short time actually being friends. After which I told her that I would love for her to be my date to the homecoming dance. She said yes, and we were off.

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