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From this line: He thinks he owes it to her not to lead her on, so he makes it clear he’s not interested in romance. To her credit, Lisa agrees, revealing she only wants to go because she missed out on Ash’s party and wants a chance to let her hair down.

You took that as her wanting sex? We must read differently. I read that as her wanting to get drunk.

It's not even a pairing that's listed in the header, so there wouldn't even be a reason to hope for sexin' with those two. Even Dean/Bela was listed, and that really was about two sentences.

Not the AYRT, but I thought Lisa's inclusion as a date was kind of weird, too. Dude, it's not prom-if you just want to hang out with your friends at a party, hang out with friends at a party.

But the whole Freshman Ball thing seemed weird to me anyway. Do colleges really do that?

And when someone is talking about spiking drinks in college, my first thought isn't alcohol.

Yes and no. Do schools have prom-like things? Sure. Usually homecoming rather than end of the year, though. But mainly...the cool kids don't go to such balls. Hell, I wasn't even cool at my large undergrad, but I knew better than to go to the homecoming dance.

It was different at my college, official dances weren't uncool, in that the ticket sales were usually fundraisers for something or other. But they tended to be somewhat formal affairs, not for dates. You only went if you were in a steady relationship, like a practice run of going to a company party with your spouse. If you actually wanted to party, you went to someone's house off-campus, and you certainly didn't need a date for that.

So the set-up with the "Freshman Ball" and especially Dean and Castiel's anxiety over asking each other out and then sharing their feelings seemed very high school to me.

“So…” Castiel begins, “Are you going to the Freshman’s Ball?”

Dean’s heart starts to speed up. “I don’t know. Haven’t really thought about it. Are you going?” He tries to sound casual.

Castiel nods. “Yes, I thought so. Anna asked if I’d like to go with her.”

“Shouldn’t the guy ask the girl?”

“I suppose so. I wasn’t going to go but then, it’s the Freshman’s Ball, so I suppose you’re kind of expected to go. We’re just going in the hope Ash will bring along some of his home brew.” Castiel smiles. “You should go; it could be fun.”

That part made me eyeroll. I know these times are a bit more conservative than when I came of age, but is it really that odd for a woman to ask a guy out?

I read that as her wanting to get drunk.

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That's how I read it too. Also, I got the sense that she knew what was going on with D/C and was sort of encouraging it. IDK, I really liked this fic.

AYRT. I enjoyed it. And IDK, but when I was in college my priority was getting drunk over getting laid.

You don't need a date to get drunk. :)

AYRT. Very true. :)

...although I did find myself going out with several guys over the age of 21 my freshman year. I wonder why. XD

Captcha just got creepy: call mother.

ayrt

You took that as her wanting sex? We must read differently. I read that as her wanting to get drunk.

Well, she'd have failed at that too, unless she pregamed. If someone has to spike the punch, it's a pretty dry event.

If some guy I’d talked to a couple times asked me to be his date but specified that he wasn’t looking for romance, I’dthink it was a one night stand. In general, I don’t go on dates with friends (go out with friends, yes-none of this picking them up and wearing cologne for them formal-datey weirdness), and I don’t think I’ve ever gone on a date and then encouraged the guy to go home with someone else at the end of the day (that’d be a really bad date).

It’s not that I was hoping for D/L sexytimes, I just thought the author handled it weirdly. I thought there was going to be a scene at the end where Dean apologizes to Lisa for being the worst date ever-he’s moping the whole time, paying attention to someone else when they’re dancing, and then ditches her after saying that he’ll be back in a few minutes. Even if I wasn’t really attracted to the guy, I’d think he was a douche.

It’d be a pretty easy fix, too-just have him go stag, go with a group of friends, or have him and Lisa be friends beforehand (and, I don’t know, make her a sophomore who wanted to go for some reason). Or, you know, have Lisa pick up Anna (or some other guy) there.

Meh, maybe I have too high of a standard, but the entire thing read like every high school and college AU romantic tropes . . . and the high school ones seem really out of place.

AYRT. I was actually re-thinking it earlier, and now I agree with you. Even as friends, he still ditched her. :-/

Even with that, though, it was still entertaining. I think I've been out of high school and college too long to tell the difference. TBH all high school and college behaviors seem the same to me. College students just sometimes use bigger words.

Therefore, I'll just sit back and think that Lisa and Anna were in cahoots. :D

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