My Mechanical Romance

by Alexene Farol Follmuth

Everyone at this school has plans, and then they want me to have plans, and I’m just so overwhelmed by their good intentions that I constantly feel the need to lie down for a solid five minutes before trying again.

“It’s a yes or no question,”

OMG I ASK THIS OFTEN TO MY CLASSMATES

I chose her.

I’m also not going to bring up how the most interesting thing that happens to me from day to day is my personal game of guessing her outfit.

“You don’t have to make the world perfect just so people will love you,”

“There’s passion and then there’s, you know, other shit. Things you do because you like hanging out with your best friend. Or things you do just because you can, because you’re good at them. But they’re not the same as like...love, you know?

some people aren’t just born knowing what they’re meant to be.

“Sleep is important for developing minds.”

you don’t understand how hard it is to be a girl competing with boys who don’t even realize that they, unlike us, are perceived as more competent no matter what they do.

when you come into this world unprepared and unfocused and without even a fundamental understanding of what you’re doing, you have nothing to fight back with.

“It’s not about liking you or disliking you. It’s not like I hate you.”

“I’m only good when I’m with you,

“I’m at my best when I’m with you.”