Not technically my idea, but my friends and I pulled it off.
If you knew me as a kid, you'd know that one of my nicknames is Juliet. No, I'm not transgender. There is an actual story behind the name.
When I was twelve, my friend Chloe needed a guy and a girl to go on a double date with her and her crush. All her girlfriends were busy that weekend. One of her other guy friends and I volunteered to help, but we ourselves didn't have dates.
Then, the other guy that volunteered (I think his name was Carter) suggested that one of us pretends to be a girl who's dating the other boy. Did that make sense?
We flipped a coin for who had to be the girl.
I lost.
The day before the date, I went to Chloe's place and borrowed a ton of stuff to make me look like a girl, including makeup, extensions, shoes, nail polish, false eyelashes, and a really flashy green dress. Lucky for Chloe, I hadn't hit puberty yet so I didn't have to shave anything and I sounded pretty close to a preteen girl.
The date was at a small restaurant, and Carter and I actually pulled off being a straight couple. I came up with the name Juliet (after the Shakespeare book) and pretended to be Chloe's cousin from our of town that didn't go to our middle school.
The whole hour and a half at the restaurant, I was alternating between praying that Chloe's date didn't notice I was actually a dude trying to eat without smudging my lipstick.
And it worked! Chloe's date didn't even notice anything strange.
I still have the false eyelashes and the nail polish lasted for a week after that incident. And I kept that green dress because I legit rocked it.
Lucky for me, their second date was private.
