Dakota Nelton is a high school sophomore from Gray, Louisiana, who finds the courage to ask his friend to their school’s homecoming dance. He had never asked a girl out before, so this occasion was not only a big moment for him but also required a great deal of mettle.
As it was, she said no. Fine, right? She’s allowed to. What isn’t fine is that it happened in front of their classmates, who then all laughed and mocked Dakota for the rejection. To make matters worse, they stepped all over the handmade poster he had used to pop the question.
Dakota walked away from the students, wishing a hole in the ground would open up and swallow him up. He left to a chorus of laughs and jeers; a nightmare scenario for any youngster.
“It was actually a pretty tough moment standing in a small circle with that one shake of the head and you just got to find your way out of that circle,” he told WGNO New Orleans.
Then, just when he thought things couldn’t go south any further, it turned out the whole thing had been filmed. Someone uploaded the footage to Facebook and it ended up accumulating hundreds of views. People across the United States got to see Dakota get made fun of for just trying to get a date.
A few days later, Dakota showed up at school, not knowing that he would be part of a truly memorable scene.
He was walking down the hallway when he was stopped by a group of no less than 13 girls, each one of them holding up a sign.
It turns out the girls had banded together to show Dakota he was worthy; that he was loved and had no reason to doubt himself. They wanted to propose to him to go with them!
A smiling Dakota said: “I felt like one of the most popular kids in school, which I’m not.”
Watch the amazing video below:
What an incredible gesture by these amazing girls. Dakota, we want to tell you that what you did takes a lot of courage; you shouldn’t let others laughing at you get you down!
