A Guide to Girls.

Well. Let me tell you a little secret.

Us girls, we sometimes say that we hate boys. But that is in fact nowhere near the truth.

We say that because we like to think it'll make us feel better.

Loving boys--that--is what we really hate.

Because, if we didn't love boys,

then we wouldn't have to hurt so much when we find out they don't love us back.

Because, if we didn't love boys,

then we wouldn't have to feel the sting that creeps up into our eyes

when we see them holding hands with someone else.

Because, if we didn't love boys,

then we wouldn't have to fall asleep every night to a picture of them behind our eyelids,

all fuzzy and blurred because of the tears mixed in with it.
Because, if we didn't love boys,

then we wouldn't have to come to the realization every day that they have this uncanny ability

to get over girls a lot easier than we can with boys.

Because, if we didn't love boys,

then, when we lose them, we wouldn't have to feel an overwhelming need to do something drastic

in order to forget them, like changing our sexual orientation or dyeing our hair fuchsia.
Because, if we didn't love boys,
then we wouldn't have to sit there, completely unable to do anything else but just sit and wonder
why, why, why am I not good enough and she is?

But, if we didn't love boys, then I guess the earth would surely have to stop spinning, because, as I recall, love makes the world go 'round. (And, side note, we would be condemned to either freeze on the perpetually dark half of the earth or burn to death from the overwhelming sunlight on the other half.) So boys, we'll keep you. As long as you promise that maybe we won't always hate to love boys--that maybe someday, we might actually like it. ;)