Terry's mouth hung slightly open for a moment. he was sure there were words hiding in there somewhere, but they did not want to come out. After a few failed attempts, the boy took a slow breath and started over with her name. Slower this time as he prepared to say something else. Compliment her hair? Her dress? Her... everything? He was not good at this whole thing. In fact, he could feel Michael and Anthony laughing behind him.
"You look... wow," was all he could manage to come out with. That's it, Terry, use that expansive vocabulary and describe her as 'wow.' he mentally criticized himself.
There was more he had originally planned on saying. Conversation, perhaps, on the music, the food, the people, the decorations. Anything but silence, and yet all of the words vacated his mind and he was left staring at her with an empty mind. He cleared his throat and played with his shaggy hair for a moment.
"How're you enjoying this?" Safe enough question, right?