I was the nameless one.
I was on Poms, the only freshman to make Dance Team, and I floated hardcore. I studied with the dorks, partied with the drunks, smoked with the hippies, went clubbing with the Euro trash, and talked to everyone. I was also incredibly quiet and shy until my junior year so I became that girl that was everywhere and "a friend of so and so's" but no one knew my name. I find out now that a couple ppl had crushes on me but back then??? My friends convinced me and every one else that I was "friend" quality only, and I believed it. I never even went to a dance at my own high school. When I got to college and guys actually gave me the time of day, I couldn't understand it. Still kind of don't, but that's another story.....
I hated the fact that kids left their change in the vending machine b/c they "hated quarters" and that if you didn't get a new car for your 16th birthday, you were from outer space. My family wasn't poor but I didn't want to feed into looking like everyone else.....so all my good friends went to other high schools and I vowed to never own a North Face (which I gave into last year. I think its ok now.
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I'm actually totally fine with how things were. I learned to hold a conversation with just about anyone and b/c all my friends were totally opposite, I experienced a lot of things some ppl never will. The best part (and I'm hoping some of you have experienced this b/c it is the BEST feeling) is now that I'm 21, I go home and meet ppl at a new job or in a bar....they're like, YOU went to North??? I would have remembered you....want to hang out sometime??? And I'm like HA!! You didn't have time to get to know me then?? I don't have time now.
But I have no reputation, so it's kind of like, if we do become friends I get to start with a clean slate, minus the HS hierarchy bullshit. And that makes me a very happy girl.