Page 84 - Girl's Life (August - September 2019)

ODE TO AWKW ARD

My BGF and I were goofing off in class one day, and we
started laughing so hard that I farted. Neither of us said
anything and the class got super quiet right after—but
then we just started cracking up again. I was definitely
embarrassed, but I tried not to let it show! —Cora L.

At my bestie’s birthday dinner, she
filmed a video of us and all of our
friends hanging out for her Insta-
gram story. I didn’t know she was
filming, so I was talking about her
crush on our friend’s brother. When
she realized what she’d posted, we
were both *so* embarrassed. She
deleted it right away—but not before
our friend’s brother saw it. The
upside: He asked her out after
seeing the story! —Ruby F. Priah Ferguson stars as
Erica Sinclair in Netflix’s
A few months ago, I was walking Stranger Things 3
home from school with my crush (now streaming)
when my backpack zipper came TOP: STEVE DEBENPORT/GETTY IMAGES. FERGUSON: ELTON ANDERSON.
undone and all my stuff spilled out. I
didn’t notice until three blocks later, Famous #F AILS
so we had to walk all the way back
to pick everything up...including my
dirty gym clothes. It was so not cute. “My best friend and I are both part of
—Daniella I. our school’s drama club. During a small
class performance, we were having a
At lunch, my BGF was trying to deep conversation backstage. Chatting
guess everyone’s secrets. I told him away, I accidentally followed her on
there was no way he could guess stage...but didn’t realize until it was too
mine, but he wanted to try anyway. late that this wasn’t my cue! I panicked
He pointed to me, drew a heart in and decided to just roll off the stage.
the air with his hands, then pointed Definitely one of the weirder things I’ve
to my crush at the other end of the ever done while acting.”
table. My crush and I both turned
bright red! —Connie D.