I honestly get so sick of this.
I really, really like one of my guy friends. His name is Xavier (mentioned in other quotes). Yes, I know I don't have a chance with him anymore. But he is still one of the most best friends I have. He is incredibly sweet, funny, smart, athletic, all in all just a great person. But ignorant people just decide to be total a//holes and tease me and make fun of me for liking him.
Why? Because they think he's ugly.
Xavier has a bit of an acne problem. And he doesn't have the most perfect face that would actually please society. He was bullied almost his whole life, from elementary through middle school, giving him trust issues and causing him to put walls up around his heart. We met when he was a freshman in high school and I was an eighth grader. The bullying had finally stopped, but it still took a long time before he trusted me enough to be his friend. All this because of stupid kids that were too ignorant to realize that he has a beautiful personality, and instead focused on the outside.
I don't care for the acne, or for the way he treated me when I confessed to liking him. His imperfections are what makes him attractive to me. He doesn't understand just how much he means to me, and he probably never will. But he knows that I'll be there for him, and that's good enough for me. That man on my avatar sitting with me will always have a place in my heart.