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Full of Surprises
Dating in high school is like fighting in a fishbowl, everyone sees the bubbles. I think the fishbowl metaphor was actually created with high school in mind. High school is like "Melrose Place" with more sleazy (and/or clumsy) sex scenes, "Dawson's Creek" with more melodrama, and any "after school" special only without the neat, gift-wrapped resolution in the end. Plus, the lack of background music to heighten our already unstable, nearly insane, always intense emotions.
The thing about dating in high school is that even when you go to a school with over a thousand other teenagers, which I did, you still really only see the same twenty or thirty people everyday. Everyone knows everyone, you've dated half of them and hate most of them. But something about high school makes it virtually impossible to get out of the "you are who you hang with and this is who you are so this is who you hang with" mentality.
So you go out with everyone and their sisters just so it won't work out and you can blow it way out of proportion because you're a teenager and only capable of seeing what's in front of you at that very second. Then you do it all over again...with the same person, reasoning that you've both changed so much in the past two weeks you've been apart, which by the way in teenager time seems like a million years.
The point of high school for the vast majority of students is socialization, whether they're aware of it or choose to admit it. You go to school everyday looking to interact and relate and often enough clash with each other, dating is a huge part of that interaction and that conflict. A relationship in high school and in life is like coming home to a great, big package on your doorstep: it can be a bomb that scars you for life, it can be a surprise so shocking it knocks the wind right out of you or it can be something amazing that you've been waiting a long time for. Article provided by 
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