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14 // i just wanna tell you that you're really pretty, girl

"I can see you're real smart..
World-class piece of art..
I can see you in the dark..
All we have to do is start..
I just wanna tell you that you're really pretty girl..
I just wanna know if you will let me be your world.."

Love and lust are two very different things.

I'd know.

When people look at me, they see a typical good girl, normal in her own right.

What exactly connotes to normality?

I'm anything but.

I'm merely an alien in a society of humans, watching with wide eyes as they commit acts of, well, normalcy.

Boy on girl, girl on boy.

Boys likes boys?

HELL NO!

Girls like girls?

HELL NO!

The laws of heteronormativity subject us to thinking

boys with best friends who are girls

or

girls with best friends who are boys

are dating.

I must ask:

Why does society cage us into boxes of expectations and normalcy?

I like boys, but so what?

I like girls, too.

And I just want to be able to say that a girl's pretty without seeming I'm too straight to say so.

I love boys, but so what?

I love girls, too.

But here I am.

I just wanna say that you're pretty.

I like you.

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