Winnie and Kevin The wonder years

well yeah I think that sort of a reverse spin on it come on Kevin stop gabbing with your girlfriend she's not my girlfriend this was true Winnie Cooper was not my girlfriend when we were very little we used to go down to Harpers woods and catch fireflies but we really hadn't hung out at all together since we were about nine french-kiss hey girls come on over here Kevin's gonna show you what a French kiss is nothing but we did our best to fit in what an incredible stroke of luck a new kid a helpless waif

would be even more lost than we were a helpless way from and fishnet tights and go-go boots [Music] we need kuba Gwenda i don't wanted to call anymore well there was no question now we were entering uncharted territory even the familiar was cloaked in the vestments of the devil junior high school was a whole new ball of wax [Music] hey you guys mind if I sit with you Shawny we were on our way our group was forming and Winnie I mean Gwendolyn was not chopped liver who knows maybe we even had an outside chance to

become the cool seventh-grade group if we could just remain inconspicuous until he picked up a few more members she's not my girlfriend he thinks I don't think she's cute he wants to give you a big kiss I went down to the big climbing tree in Harpers woods I didn't admit it to myself until years later but in my mind was the shadow of a thought that Winnie might be there [Music] she was sort of hugging herself and rocking slowly back and forth there was a bit of a chill in the air and she didn't have

a sweater for a minute I was scared to approach her [Laughter] [Music] I didn't know what to say I had the strangest feeling it was impossible for me to believe Brian was dead sorry bye-bye and I'm sorry when I said today wasn't sure [Music] [Music] it was the first kiss for both of us we never really talked about it afterward but I think about the events of that day again and again and somehow I know that when he does to whenever some blowhard starts talking about the anonymity of the suburbs the mindlessness of the TV

generation because we know that inside each one of those identical boxes is its Dodge parked out front and it's white bread on the table and it's TV set glowing blue in the falling dust there were people with stories there were families bound together in the pain and the struggle of love there were moments that made us cry with laughter and there were moments like that one of sorrow and Wonder but it wasn't just Brian's death that it changed me saying anything it's also Brian's sister I hadn't seen Winnie since the night we kissed in the

woods but I hadn't been able to think about anything else one thing that remains constant and eternal and can never die and that is the human soul there I was at Brian's funeral and when he was nowhere to be seen I felt sort of weird though I mean what was I gonna do if I saw her ask her to dance Kevin take this plate of food over and try and get money to eat something it's really needs your old friends right my mom wanted me to give this to you that hungry yeah you should eat

though something what was she thinking what was I thinking I was so confused she was so close I I wanted to grab her take her in my arms feel her 72 pound body next to mine try the ham oh god I was an animal watching her eat the ham I felt how could I be having these feelings did it show could people see through me what would Brian think so you're at my funeral and all you can think about is jumping my little sister of course he would think I was scum they're mad after my

own heart wait a minute that's right Brian wasn't like that keV keV keV not now let's give her a little time the female reproductive system chapter 14 the human reproductive telling us not to read a head was like telling a pack of wolves to stay away from red meat [Music] [Music] hi hi what you doing nothing why are you coming back to school Monday but maybe we could do something tomorrow I mean if you want yeah I mean sure if you want well I'm going to my uncle's in the morning but I'll be back around

3:00 come on yeah let's go okay well bye see you tomorrow [Music] I guess my mother figured out her mistake pretty quickly because I never heard from either of my parents on that topic again we seem to have a tacit understanding that they wouldn't mention my book if I wouldn't mention theirs when when he got back from her uncle who went for a walk in the park neither of us said a word about it of course but we both knew that the park was where you went to make out as we approach the baseball field

I started to sweat nearing first base second base third I didn't know what to do our first kiss had happened so naturally I couldn't even remember how I did it did I did I breathe through my mouth or my nose oh I had to make some kind of move there was a blog on you oh thanks some move well there was no turning back now we were here so what do you want to do I don't know what do you want to do I don't know what do you want to do Anna [Music] [Music] [Music]

[Music] the moment stretched out so unbearably I thought we'd both explode it was clear we were both stalling we knew what we were here to do we both wanted it one of us just had to come out and say it you want to go on the swing yeah sure and in the end that's as far as Winnie and I went that day maybe we both felt we'd already come too far too fast maybe we both realize that growing up doesn't have to be so much a straight line there's a series of advances and retreats maybe

we just felt like swinging but whatever it was Winnie and I made an unspoken pact that day to stay kids for a little while longer [Music] don't be the same now where do we get our values Winnie crucible anywhere else Kevin from our parents yes okay very good Kevin parents anywhere else The Beatles yes that is very good we do get a lot of our tastes and our values from our cultural heroes hmm TV how about bucks mr. Arnold I couldn't learn mr. Arnold I'm waiting [Music] oh could you repeat the question again please I

asked if you were crazy [Music] What's Wrong Hannah I said the c-word Carla Hayley are you gonna do the dance or something no way I'm not I mean you're asking Crowley Neely no he's asking Lisa Bellini did you believe me huh yeah I don't know I might not know you should she's nice she's okay well I guess I'll see you guys later [Music] all right I wouldn't need it either see how they make the hamburgers I put all this gross stuff in it tastes all right to me I heard Eddie Oban bit into a hamburger

and a bug flew out from under the bun no way that's what he said I don't believe it I do it's documented fact all right that did it there was only so much one guy could take first of all there's no way a bug can breathe under a hamburger bun and it probably would have suffocated before Eddie even bit into it that's right and besides that a bug is too quick to get caught in a hamburger to begin with let's say you did get caught under the bun but didn't suffocate it probably would have flown

away when Eddie put the ketchup on Winnie and I always saw eye to eye on stuff like that it was like we were born under the same sign or something suit yourselves I'm getting an Ice Cream Sandwich [Music] oh is that the lunch menu yeah Pizza buzz chilled Paris and carrot sticks on Wednesday maybe it was the buzz of the cafeteria maybe it was the sting from Lisa Bellini but sitting there across from Winnie I felt a hunger burning within me sloppy joes tater tots in an orange wedge on Thursday I love sloppy joes me

too her message seemed clear enough behind the charade of the lunch menu recital burned the untapped rage of our secret passion and Friday it's macaroni and cheese peanut butter cookies you feel cocktail whenever you go to the dance with me dance I can't I'm already going with Kirk McCrae [Music] god Winnie Cooper an eighth grader can you believe it really amazing he's actually cool so I'm told captain of the football team mr. popularity look Paul there's more to life than being cool athletic and popular it was all too much to take first Lisa Bellini had

opened the wound now Winnie Cooper had poured the salt there was only one solution left with regards to the upcoming dance you and me for the dance on Friday huh nope I'm not going what I was in hell [Music] and that's when Winnie Cooper entered the gym I had never seen her look prettier than she did standing there in the doorway until Kirk McCray walked in behind her then she looked beautiful it was all so unfair I mean this guy already had everything and now he had my Winnie I wasn't gonna just stand idly by

it was time to do what any hot-blooded 12-year old guy would have done if he were in my shoes do you wanna dance [Music] try to make Winnie as seriously jealous as I was the key would be to appear like I was having the time of my life and dance as I had never danced before [Music] apparently when he was playing the same game [Music] what are you going [Music] it all made sense at the time this would be the moment when Winnie's eyes met mine across the dance floor and we both realized that we

were really meant to be dancing with each other [Music] excuse me I'm just gonna go outside friends [Music] sitting alone outside the school I kept wondering what it would have been like if I had asked when he first had I meant anything at all to her how could she forget well you can't blame a guy for dreaming but really I knew that I'd already blown it first I had forgotten about Winnie now she'd forgotten about me I guess it was only fair what are you doing out here nothing what are you doing out here do

you like him it's nice honey can I ask you one more thing [Music] [Music] and so when he and I had our one slow dance after all but things wouldn't be the same between us we were getting older and whether we wanted it or not the Lisa burly knees and the Kirk McRae's for changing us by the minute all we could do was close our eyes and wish that the slow song never end [Music]