Highschool Sweethearts

He came to my attention with his long legs propped irreverantly on the card catalog file table. I was a Sophomore and studyhall librarian ; he was a Senior. I scowled at him. His sister was in my class so I knew who he was and that he was dating Wanda Sheets. But I noticed him.

He first asked me out for a date that next winter. I had heard he had broken up with Wanda and was excited to date a "college man". We went to Fairfiled to the movies at the Coed. I must have made a big impression because when school restarted I heard he and Wanda were back together.

That summer he called a few times for a date, but I had to turn him down because the times he choose I was busy with a church activity. I must have moaned and whined to my mother about him, that I really wanted to go out with him but he had to think that I did not want to. That is when she sent me to Beer's TV Repair to have Hollis fix my grandmother's little transitor radio that mother had given her for Christmas. It was not long after that that Hollis asked again and this time I was free.

Mother guided me throught this romance, reminding me that the Hervey's did not have a lot of money and that Hollis was putting himself through college and suggested that frequent dates should be in our livingroom watching television on our snowy set and eating popcorn. There were other cheap dates: like swimming at night at the lake along with some of the other college kids home for the summer.

Hollis and I were an item my Senior year...I would drive to the postoffice before school started to check to see if there were any letters with Pearson House logo on it. I would send care packages of cookies and draw little picture stories to send instead of doing homework. I was smitten.