1. girls are silly in love

2. when she meets a boy

3. her brain falls out
plop.

4. and her heart grows three sizes
too big

5. she’s convinced his every text
has a subtext, and a sub-subtext

6. when they’re together, she wonders
are they friends?
or more than friends?
or just friends?
or boyfriend girlfriend?

7. when he pays, she calls it a date
(ok, a maybe date)

8. when she talks
he listens

9. when she like likes
he likes-ish

10. when she loves
he lusts

11. as she sinks deeper and deeper

12. he gets her drunk on his kool-aid

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14. she starts to ask
he loves me?
he loves me not?

15. and when she finally learns
the truth
the waterworks begin

16. the sweatpants come out

17. and she swears she’ll never fall for a man trap ever again

18. from now on, she’ll be smart
and think with her brain

19. not her heart

20. she’ll keep her guard up

21. and be the
beautiful
strong
independent
woman she knows she is

22. and that plan works for her
(quite well in fact)
until

23. she meets another boy

24. plop.