First kiss yesterday. Feeling a bit awkward.?

[Thomas]

I am a 16 year old boy and yesterday I had my first kiss. It was with this girl who is 2 years older than me and I have had feelings for her for about a year but I only mentioned it to her a month ago. She told me a couple of times that she has kissed a couple of people in the past and that even though she was my first I wasn't hers. We are both in sixth form in the school I attend but she lives about 15 miles from me. Today was the last day of school until after the new year but I can travel to where she lives on the bus so that isn't a problem. For this I will call her Kirsty just so I don't embarrass her.

A fortnight ago she kissed me on the cheek but nothing had happened since until yesterday apart from hugging me occasionally. The reason it happened yesterday is because someone brought a piece of fake mistletoe (it was plastic) in to school and Kirsty saw it and was saying we should kiss under it. At the time there were 3 of our friends in the room and they heard what she said and started to say that we should. As I hadn't kissed a girl before I didn't really want to do it in front of them all even though they kept counting down from 5 repeatedly as if to say we should kiss after they counted down from 5 but because I didn't do anything they got a bit fed up and so did Kirsty. A few of us were going out for the day with the school anyway and so just before we left one of the staff members from the school, that had walked in whilst the others were trying to get me and Kirsty to kiss, said that she would wait outside the classroom for 20 seconds before getting us to go and she said that it was to give us privacy. After the staff member left I explained to Kirsty that the reason that I didn't do it was because I had never kissed anyone before so I was nervous and then she said to do it quickly before we had to leave. I was really nervous but I stuck with it and i kissed her and after that she said we should leave. We walked to the minibus and sat next to each other on the journey and the rest of the day followed. Today I was in school again for the last day of term and we were talking to each other as usual (I usually spend a lot of time in her classroom when we aren't having lessons) and one of my friends came over to ask me for something. I finished the conversation with Kirsty and she was OK with me talking to my friend so I downloaded the thing he wanted and we had a nice conversation when all of a sudden Kirsty randomly kissed me on the cheek. I finished what I was saying to my friend and looked over to her and she just smiled to me. About half hour later after my friend had gone from the room one of my other friends who was in the room the whole time (at this point it was just me, him and Kirsty in the room) started talking to Kirsty and I wasn't really listening to their conversation but Kirsty came over and said that my friend had suggested that we kiss each other but with a piece of paper between us but I just didn't want to with my friend there as I was feeling nervous again. I did want to kiss her again but only when we were on our own. At the end of the day I tried to get her on her own but she was rushing around getting stuff so I didn't even get to say goodbye to her let alone kiss her. Now I'm felling really awkward and I have messaged her on Facebook (she wouldn't give me her phone number) to tell her that I did want to say goodbye to her and the reason I didn't say it was because she was rushing around but she hasn't replied to me. We did want to meet up during the Christmas holidays but I don't know if she still wants to as she isn't replying to me at all. Is there anything I can do because I feel like I might have upset her.

[Piper]

I had my first kiss when I was 17 years old and it was with a guy who was 2 years older than me and he had kissed people before but I hadn't. I felt so awkward afterwards too. It's only because that's how your first kiss is supposed to be is awkward and uncomfortable. We set such high expectations on it thinking it will be like the movies but it never is lol. We have dreams and thoughts of how it should be but it never is. Those movie like kisses don't come until you're older. Your first kiss is always awkward and sucks usually lol. So don't be embarressed or fret. We are normally so nervous that we feel like we messed it up but you really can't mess up a kiss no matter how bad you think you did. But congrats on having your first kiss

[BobbyT]

My god man... it was just a freaking kiss. OK, so it was your first, but don't go repeating this whole story to anyone else or you'll run out of friends very quickly.
Send her a FB message... ask her out on a date. Cinema, McDonald's, whatever you guys wanna do. She'll either accept the invite or not. At least you'll know where you stand with her. Or you can do nothing except ramble on about that bleeding kiss for all time.