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i met this boy today.
he looked at me, eye to eye, and did something no one else ever did.
he smiled.
"wow! you have such pretty eyes!"
i remember him saying.
and instead of reacting properly to the first nice thing said to me, i ran away. i ran so fast, through crowds of burning gazes and pebbled pathways, all the way home.
and hours upon getting there, i realized it wasn't the running that got my heart to pulse as fast as it did.
since every time his voice lulled in my ears, my heart seemed to pick up speed.
nobody's ever looked in my eyes and said that before.
when the adults glanced into them, they'd return a sour look.
but his look was nothing but sweet,
and it was a sweetness i liked.
