I recently had my 18th birthday party and my ex's friend came to it. During the party, I had a bad headache so I went in my room. He followed and began kissing my stomach and stuff. After the party he got my number and asked me if I was attracted to him. I told him I was and he left. Now does that mean he's interested in me or did he just want my number for his collection? We say hi in school but never really get to talk. What's up with that? In the meantime, I'm still looking for a prom date and kinda had him in mind. Is he a hopeless cause or what? I think he's a definite contender. He's probably more afraid of you than you are of him. After asking for your number, he must have chickened out somewhere along the line. It could be that, after asking for your number, he asked his friend if that would be okay, but that's probably a bit mature for a twelfth grader. He may be trying to honor the boy's code of crossing over to someone that someone else has already dated. If you feel confident enough to ask him to the prom, I would definitely venture to say he's interested. If he's too afraid to ask you let him know you don't have a date yet. Just get into a casual conversation in the halls. You could ask if he's ready for prom and maybe squeeze into the conversation that you haven't chosen a date yet either, which absolutely gives him the opportunity to ask. If he doesn't, then you're going to have to ask him yourself or move on.

I had this friend. We were best friends, and we did everything together. Now, we don't even talk! I don't know how to get our friendship back to how it used to be. I really want things to go back to the past, but we both have new friends and have moved on. I don't want a great friendship to go down the drain. What do I say to her? I guess I won't see her ever again when I go off to college, but that makes me really sad. How can I salvage our friendship before it's too late. You're at a very important time in your life when you're about to go to college and, unfortunately, a lot of your friends do change. Sometimes you lose a friend from mis-information or someone's feelings being hurt or someone's trying to be something that they're not. The bigger friend always takes the bigger risk, but sometimes has the best reward by putting their honest feelings down. If you wrote your friend a letter, and didn't accuse her of anything or didn't say you were angry... just let her know that you miss her and how much you appreciate her and how special she is and that you hope to maintain some level of friendship on your way to school when you're meeting new people. It's the friends you fall off your bicycle with that you'll miss for the rest of your life so it's worth taking the risk. Don't make it excusitory.

I've been secretly dating this senior at my school. My parents are separated, and me and my brother live with my mom. I just hate her! I'm sixteen and she doesn't want me to date yet and she won't let me go to parties! (I'm a total social person, so this is a huge deal!!), When she does let me go, she always wants to check out the scene, but its embarrassing. Obviously, this guy wants me to go to prom with him, but I'm not sure how to go without my mom noticing. I mean, I have to get a dress, make-up done... she might notice, huh? What should I do? I don't want to have to hide this from her, but how else am I going to be able to go? As long as your mom is from this planet, she'll probably understand the importance of a prom. If you explain to her that you understand her guidelines of and you understand her concerns of you going to parties or the kinds of trouble you may get into. Explain that the prom is organized by your school. You'll be with a bunch of your peers. Everyone has a late curfew and that everyone is aloud to do this and that you would like to take responsibility to be a grown-up, mature woman and that if you fail at this that she can go back to her original restraints on your social life, but that you'd like the opportunity that you can act in an appropriate way. Her second best option is to ask one of your girlfriends' moms to try and explain to your mom that this is normal and that all the kids are doing this. I don't think realistically you can sneak out for this. You might try and employ asking your dad for help.

My friend and I don't have anyone to go to prom with. Would it be completely un-cool for us to go without a date? I actually went to my prom with a girlfriend. I had the best time of my life. Everyone was in the bathroom crying over the fights they had with their boyfriend or were they supposed to have sex or were they supposed to do drugs. She and I danced our heads off. We had a great time. The thing is, after the prom, it's your memory. You own the memory of your prom forever. 90 percent of the people you see at that prom, you will never see again. It has nothing to do with their opinion of you. So do whatever you want.

Catching up with Diane: Leaving Loveline... "I enjoyed the work on Loveline tremendously. It was great. It gives you more visibility than God being on MTV every single night of the week, but I was an actor before I started this. So, it was getting more and more difficult for people to understand that I wasn't a psychiatrist, a talk show host, or a medical doctor. I was actually an actor and really wanted to do some acting so they pursue what I really wanted to do." Her current gig... "The show follows these six kids and I play one of their mothers. It's absolutely hysterical. It's so fun because I play this offbeat, new age, hippy mother who's dating the sheriff, a nemesis, on the show. I'm supposed to have had her at 15 and she's supposed to be 15 now. In real life, she and I are about 8 years apart." {laughs} "It's the first daughter I've ever had. I might have had a one year, but I got a 15 year old." The college years... "In college, I started in a pre-law major and got bored with that really quickly. So I transferred back into the theatre department and here we are today!"

On teaching acting in a men's maximum security prison... "It's the most terrifying thing I've ever done, but I think it's the most I've ever learned as an actor. It's very good to see people who come from a totally different place than you. When I went in there, I quickly realized that people aren't just good and bad. It's not that easy of an issue. It takes a long time to become a murderer or car jacker. Child molestation, most of the people were victims of it themselves. Unfortunately, most of the people in my class couldn't read. You start to realize that if one teacher or one parent or anybody was paying attention to these people they would have had at least the opportunity to have a different lifestyle. Because they couldn't read, I wound up teaching an improvisation class. I would give them scenarios and they would act them out. What they bring is their own experience, which of course was very different than mine. I saw their own behavior and how the interact with what goes on at school or how you act at a party, it was very different than what I might do." On auditioning and the types of roles she looks for... "At this point, you start to look for things different than what you've already done. I wouldn't say I enjoy [the auditioning process], but I'm definitely used to it. What they don't tell you in college is that, as an actor, you have two different jobs. One job is when you're actually on the set and have to do your role as your vision of the character, while living up to what the director wants and what the other actors need. Then, there's this whole other job about getting the part and it's much more specific of what you need to do in an audition. After being in LA for four years, I think I've learned how to do that job pretty well so it's become easier."

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