OH MY GOD. OH MY HEAVENS. HOLY MOLY.

I AM SO INCREDIBLY HAPPY THAT IT'S ALL I CAN DO TO NOT BLURT OUT WHY IMMEDIATELY, BUT I THINK THIS REQUIRES A LITTLE EXPLANATION FIRST.
Today was the band/orchestra/chorus field trip to the Hershey Music Festival (called "Music In The Parks"), where we go on a 2-hour-long bus ride to Hershey High School, perform for some judges, play in Hershey Park for five hours or so with our friends, go to the awards ceremony, then go on a 2-hour-long bus ride back. My happy moment happened on the way back, but first, a couple of things that happened at the amusement park. I'm sorry to say that they're all Leo-related, but you'll see why.
1. I was forced onto a roller coaster by Leo, although I'm terrified of non-water rides, which everyone called boring, but it wasn't so bad for me because I got to hold Leo's sleeve and scream. 2. I found out that Leo actually had cared about my phone number (at the end of seventh grade, when we got our yearbooks, Leo asked me to put my phone number in his, and so I asked him to do the same in mine, but he never called or anything, so neither did I) because we got seperated and he called me, and when I asked him how he knew my number, he reminded me of the yearbook.
3. The two of us got cheeseburgers and sat together and ate them (on the same bench) while everyone else got pizza. Shut up. I know that one was stupid.
SO, THE PART Y'ALL HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR.
On the bus, me and Anne sat in the back, surrounded by a bunch of guys, including her boyfriend and my friend, Jim, right in front of us. The only girls near us were Cat and Laura, sitting behind us, in the last row, but we didn't really speak to them the whole time because they spent the entire bus ride back absorbed in an iPod.
We started out playing "Would You Rather", which transformed from a simple game between me and Jim, with the question "Would you rather go out with Oregano or Leo?" which I never even got the chance to answer, because it turned into a perverted guy game with all the males within a eight foot radius of me, which was everyone within an eight foot radius of me except for Cat and Laura. The game then evolved into "Truth Or Dare", with no truth and twice the dare. You see, "truth" wasn't a choosable option, it was just "dare" or "double-dare". "Dare" was just a normal dare, but a "double-dare" allowed you to choose between two dares. Obviously, everyone chose "double-dare". After a couple of rounds, someone asked me. I don't even remember who, I just remember what occured afterwards. I chose "double-dare" and got the options of a) asking Leo to the graduation dance or b) i think that this option was to give Ryan a kiss, but I don't completely remember, I just remember that it had to do with Ryan.
I told everyone to shut the hell up and to let me think. After less than ten seconds of deep pondering, I turned to Leo, grinned, and casually asked "So Leo, wanna go to the dance with me?"
He. Said. Yes.
At first I didn't even notice, so sure that it couldn't be true, and turned my head back to the game. Then my brain subconciously confirmed that he had, indeed, just agreed to go to the dance with me. I whipped my head back toward him and asked if he meant that seriously, and he, being a gentleman and all, said "If that's okay with you." All I could do was nod like an idiot and smile sheepishly.
SO TO SUM IT UP FOR THE LAZY PEOPLE WHO WON'T BOTHER READING THE NON-CAPITALIZED PARTS OF THIS ENTRY, LEO AGREED TO GO TO THE DANCE WITH ME.
A few rounds later, my double-dare was to kiss Leo on the cheek or to give Gary a hug. Now let me just say, Gary is a creepy guy who stalks every girl in the school and is generally unliked by everybody, but acts like he's super-cool and fits in with other, normal guys. I chose option one, and then asked Leo if he would get mad if I kissed him on the cheek. He replied "Not too much," but he said it seriously, so I decided to hug Gary, who was all too eager. All I did was awkwardly sort of touch his shoulders and then sit hurriedly back down. So, that sort of dampened my spirits. Let me just say, I have no aversion whatsoever to cheek kissing. It's so harmless that I don't see how it could in any way make anyone nervous. But when Jim was dared (by me) to kiss Anne, his girlfriend, on the cheek, it took him about ten minutes to gather up the courage. In the spirit of the game, later on, I even let Ryan kiss me on the cheek, on account of a dare.
So much else happened today! But I'm so tired and I already took up a lot of space and bored you all enough with my lovey-dovey happiness. So, thank you and good night!
p.s. that last sentence is a favorite of my Language A teacher's.