Over the centuries, Valentine’s Day has evolved from a priest who secretly married soldiers in defiance of a ban on their love to a celebration of couples exchanging flowers and chocolates to show appreciation for one another. For high school students and teachers, it may be a day filled with special plans and gestures to mark the occasion.
For the boys, Valentine’s Day is not even registering on their radar, for most of the students have zero plans. On the other hand, the girlfriends are looking forward to the day. Girlfriends are upset that their boyfriends have not asked them to be their Valentines.
Junior Nathan Ebankamp is not doing anything special for Valentine’s Day, but he is very excited to attend his girlfriend’s volleyball tournament this upcoming weekend.
“I am taking a trip up to Tulsa to watch her play volleyball on Sunday. That was a big surprise for her birthday last week. I’m very excited,” Ebankamp said.
Ebankamp and his girlfriend have no plans, but they might hang out, and go out for dinner.
“We might go out to dinner, we might sit in the house and do nothing and fall asleep by 8:30, but we have fun in our ways,” Ebankamp said.
Sophomore Cheyenne McCullough’s boyfriend asked her to be her Valentine’s because she would have been unhappy about the fact that he didn’t ask her to be her Valentine’s.
“I’m wicked and will complain otherwise,” McCullough said.
McCullough and her boyfriend plan to be lazy. The Saturday after Valentine’s Day, they will just hang out with each other, enjoying an uninterrupted and relaxing weekend devouring Sonic.
“We’re going to be fat and eat Sonic, and we’re going to sit in his dad’s house and watch devastating movies, or we’re gonna re-watch shows that we’ve watched like a million times,” Mccullough said.
There are two sides to this upcoming Valentine’s Day some couples are doing absolutely nothing and not even asking out their girlfriend to be their valentines, yet these couples are still thriving without Valentine’s Day activities. On the other hand, some couples carry on the tradition of asking their significant other “to be mine” on February 14th.
