No friends at prom
My prom is a few days away and i have nobody to go with (no date, no friends). I’m scared that i will just be standing there awkwardly so i don’t want to go anymore but my mum already paid for the ticket and a dress and I don’t want to let that go to waste and make her sad that I’m not going 
She said i can leave early if i want but im thinking about the table i would have to sit at for the meal, the awkward pictures and dancing. I literally have zero friends and don’t want to awkwardly linger and small talk for a whole evening with other friend groups and ruin it for them. Should i iust bail and go mcdonalds
She said i can leave early if i want but im thinking about the table i would have to sit at for the meal, the awkward pictures and dancing. I literally have zero friends and don’t want to awkwardly linger and small talk for a whole evening with other friend groups and ruin it for them. Should i iust bail and go mcdonaldsReply 1
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by AnonymousMy prom is a few days away and i have nobody to go with (no date, no friends). I’m scared that i will just be standing there awkwardly so i don’t want to go anymore but my mum already paid for the ticket and a dress and I don’t want to let that go to waste and make her sad that I’m not going She said i can leave early if i want but im thinking about the table i would have to sit at for the meal, the awkward pictures and dancing. I literally have zero friends and don’t want to awkwardly linger and small talk for a whole evening with other friend groups and ruin it for them. Should i iust bail and go mcdonalds
She said i can leave early if i want but im thinking about the table i would have to sit at for the meal, the awkward pictures and dancing. I literally have zero friends and don’t want to awkwardly linger and small talk for a whole evening with other friend groups and ruin it for them. Should i iust bail and go mcdonaldsBeing completely honest, I felt at the time that my prom was not worth it. I was lucky enough to have a few friends to go with, but generally the whole year left a few hours early to go to an after party (which I wasn't invited too lol). That being said, now it's been a while since I left, if I was in your situation now, I would 100% go and use it as a personal social challenge. You say you don't want to small talk all night, but I say do it. Use the opportunity to speak to people you haven't spoken to before, or if there is anyone you wish you were friends with but aren't. There will be some people who don't engage, but find the easy going kids in the year and I'm sure they will talk with you. Once you all leave school, the social cliques disappear mostly, and when you bump into old classmates in years to come, you are just two individual people figuring out adulthood with no pressures on presenting yourself how you did in school. You never know, someone you don't speak to now, could turn out to be a friend in the future.
So I say: go, get the photos, challenge yourself to speak to people. If you hate it, at least you've tried and can go home early and still get McDonalds!
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