Life Isn't A Romance Movie

I don't know where I got the inspiration from this. I just made it up.

  You’re fifteen or sixteen years old. You are a typical teenage girl. You have friends, a nice family and you live in a good neighbourhood.

   You had a couple of boyfriends before. One or two maybe. But they didn’t mean much to you. And you probably didn’t mean much to them.

    You don’t really care about boys. You have friends, music and family. That’s all you need, right? Yeah. You are pretty sure that’s all you need.

    But, then you meet the new guy.

    The new guy is really cute. He looks like one of those celebrities you see in magazines that you and your friends gush over. All of your friends have a crush on him. And hey, you think you do too.

    You and him have a class together. You sit beside each other. You talked to him a couple of times. You hope he likes you.

     Soon, you and him become close friends. You exchange phone numbers, hang out with him at the park, and even go to movies with him once in a while.

   But you and him aren’t a couple. And that fact, kind of breaks your heart. You want to be his girlfriend really badly. You want him to kiss you and hold you. You want him.

    You ask him out once. He turns you down and says he isn’t looking for a relationship. When you ask why, he ignores you. You apologize. He looks at you and says its okay, even though you know you isn’t.

   You and him pretend it never happened. You keep acting like you never asked him out. You didn’t tell your best friends you did, and he doesn’t tell his.

     Then one night, that changes.

     You are at his house in his room. You are listening to a Cat Power CD with him. You aren’t talking to each other. You are just sitting there with him, listening to the music.

   He leans over and says a compliment, like “you’re really cute” or “you have beautiful eyes”. You blush and thank him.

    Out of nowhere, he presses his lips to yours. You are surprised, and don’t understand. Last week he said he wasn’t looking for a relationship.

    But, here he is, kissing you.

    You should kiss him back. You should put his arms around his neck and kiss him with a fiery passion.

    But you don’t. You pull away.

    He stares at you, with a confused look on his face. He asks you what’s wrong.

   So you ask him. You ask him “why did you kiss me, if you don’t like me?”.

   He looks at you and says words you will remember forever. He doesn’t say I love you like characters in a romance movie. He doesn’t say how beautiful you are.

    He says, “I thought you weren’t a virgin.”

    Then it hits you. He was using you. All along, he was using you. You’re feelings are hurt. They really are.

    You shoot an insult at him, then walk out of the room and out of his house.

    You feel stupid. You feel used. You feel neglected.

    Then when you are walking away you whisper to yourself, “life isn’t a romance movie.”

Author's Note

I know this is confusing and kind of bad. I just made it up off of the top of my head.

Reviews

[TJ]

Takes balls to write a story in 2nd person...good job! You do a great job taking us through all the emotions this girl feels and I love how real it is! Life isn't a romance movie...it's life and stuff like that is exactly what happens (only in real life she probably would've had sex with him lol)
Good job :)

[ChicagoMay]

Wow. I love romantic movies and books, but they are the fairytale. We need more stories like yours. Honest and real. I'm still going to wish for the fairytale, but it is refreshing to read reality. Good work!

[that weird guy]

this was good..

[Patches I'm not so new..]

Sometimes the best writes come off "the top of the head" but a cardinal rule of such first draft jottings is re write re write re write and then when you think it couldn' t get any better---- put it aside for a day, a week a month then go back and re write it again. Sometimes, however the first draft is perfection not often in fact it's probably more likely that the original write belongs in the trash but keep it and improve on it it will pay off in the end,

[Coyote Poetry]

I believe life need to be slow and easy. When you rush into anything. You miss too much and the gift of emotion can be wasted. I believe most of us have a limit on love and if we use it all up. When the person you really desire come. What will be left? A lot of common sense in your poem. Thank you for the excellent poem.
Coyote

[Short.Nerd]

This is wonderful:D I love it! Its sad but so true. Great job!

[brenda]

this is super good ! live isnt a romantic movie you are right this is super good i can not realte to this but a heartbreak its a heartbreak and for some reason it just keeps happening nice write!

[Suzy Q]

It wasn't bad for being off the top of your head! It was pretty good actually. Life isn't a romance movie, and all romance movies lie. All guys want is sexual interaction while girls look for something so muh deeper. This happens in a lot of teens lives and I'm glad you noticed it.

[Cairne]

It is really embarrassing that there are people out there who do the things the boy did. This story points out a seemingly obvious fact that many (at least of the people I have seen) fail to realize.

[halflives]

No, not bad, not at all. Very good. I loved it.

[Jake Staffeld]

This is a little biased. Most of us are nothing like this, and I don't like it when people form opinions based on a minority. However, as far as the writing goes, it was very good, so I feel you still deserve a good review.