Tall, Thin, and Shy: How I Met My High School Goth Crush and Found Love I was never very outgoing in high school. I mostly kept to myself and my small group of friends, studying and occasionally going out to play videogames with them or see a movie. I was sixteen in my third year of high school, relatively tall, more so on the thin side and had very thick hair at the time. I kept in shape mostly by running, which didn’t make me particularly buff, but definitely not scrawny. I met Mary in my third year of high school. Right from the start I was very interested in her, but I had never had much luck with girls. She was pretty tall for a girl, her eyes coming up just to my neck. She was slim, but had decently sized breasts which stood out nicely from her figure. I noticed that her hips swayed very obviously when she walked. She self-identified as a goth, dying her hair black, wearing heavy metal band t-shirts, skinny jeans and mesh arm sleeves regularly. Her eyes were hazel, highlighted by eyeliner, with a cute nose and full lips. Her skin was pale and unblemished. I was immediately taken with her. We originally met through mutual friends but never interacted much over the course of the year. We did however, have one class together: math. Math wasn’t a hard subject to me. To me, it was mostly just taking a formula, taking some numbers and then plugging those numbers into the formula – easy. …and then things took a turn
