She’ll spend too many years pining after the boy to whom she feels invisible. She’ll fall asleep at night with fantasies of being wanted and desired by him, and in the daytime watch him walk on by with his arm around someone else. And one day in the distant future but at precisely the right time, she’ll find herself completely breathless at the words spilled out of him for her, embossed in electronic blue light . . . you are perfect to me. And because she waited so long to see her own desire reflected back, she won’t rush to satiate his thirst. She’ll bask in the glow of his affection in
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