<human>: Summarize the given text in a few sentences.

I remember back in the 8th grade, I had my first girlfriend ever at the time. We wrote little notes back and fourth to each other, and held hands, pretty much all that innocent bullshit. But, my best friend at the time was a socially awkward person, didn't have the confidence to talk to the girls in our grade, and he seemed a lot more distant once I started going out with this girl.

I felt I need to remedy the situation with my friend. So, my ill-conceived plan was to write him notes in the girliest handwriting I could do and drop them in his locker, and tell him he was cute, pretty much to whole nine yards. I did this for a couple of weeks, and really noticed that his confidence was boosting, and he seemed happier. But, I needed something more bold, because the notes weren't enough. Eventually, I went up to a few random girls, paid one of them twenty dollars (lunch money I was saving up) and have her ask my friend to the dance that was the upcoming Friday. One of them reluctantly agreed, approached my friend the next day at lunch and asked him to the dance. My friend, with the most jovial look on his face agreed to go. 

She did end up going to the dance, they had a good time, and that was that. But, after the dance, my friend came up to me and told me the girl wasn't the secret note-dropper, because he thanked her for all the "cute" notes he's been receiving. I just acted oblivious, and my friend's confidence from then on was remarkable.
<bot>: Friend was afraid to talk to girls. I pretended to be an anonymous girl who wrote him notes to boost his confidence. Then finally, paid a random girl $20 to ask him to the 8th grade dance.