I have so far asked out one crush:
She was sitting over on the other side of the theater during play practice, and I was done being onstage for the near.y the rest of the rehersal, she was going on and off because she was more important than me.
I walked over to where she was against the wall after her friend left. I felt really nervous and my heart was beating fast, no joke. Then I said....
"Hey [name], do you want to go to the [my school's name] dance with me?" Very careful to not mention that this dance was on valentines day.
Then she said, ”Oh, wait, what day is that?"
"It's next saturday."
"No, no, like what's the date?"
"It's the 14th..."
She kinda perked up at this, then said:
"Oh, sorry, I can't. Like, really can't, I don't want you to think I'm blowing you off, I've got this [competition thing she explained in deatail]. I'm REALLY SORRY!“
I thought is was weird for them to have that competion on valentines day, so I figured she was probably trying to say no without saying no, so I didn't press it.
"No, no, that's fine," says I.
"Then she left to go onstage, I went downstairs for a bit, talked to some people, read a book. I could have left practice but I figured that would be weird so I stuck around doing nothing, waiting for notes I guess." Said the narrator.
Later that nght, I went to a really fancy sweet 16 for another friend of ours. I was already there when she walked in, she saw me and was all like:
"[Me] I need to talk to you." She seemed very serious.
"Yeah?" -me
"I was wrong about the date, I can totally go to the dance" -da bitch
"Great, I'll buy tickets!" -our Hero
So I did, we dodn't talk much for the rest of the night. Went to the dance, had a nice time, I eventually got to know her better and didn't really keep liking her all that much, nit that it was her fault at all. Unfortunately she didn't feel the same way, and I, being a fucking wimp and afraid of rejecting people, just didn't overtly move it any further, eventually she stopped talking to me :-/
I actually feel pretty shitty about how I handled it, better luck next year I guess. Weird that I can look back only a few months and think past me was a bit of a bother. I feel bad for every girl I've interacted with because of how terrible I am with this stuff. This is the only story I've initiated, but there are others that are extremely ceonge inducing.