Sleep with that guy at 16.
Seriously, I wish I had disobeyed my guardian and made every mistake girls make when they like a guy, showed him my feelings about how much I liked him and THROWN MYSELF AT HIM LIKE A SHAMELESS HUSSY at 16.
Even if it were just a one night stand and all he’d wanted was a tumble.
Even if every girl at school laughed at me in the hallways, talked about me behind my back and called me a slut.
Even if my guardian grounded me until I left for college.
That’s how just much I liked that guy. It turned out he thought I was pretty and was interested in me. But no, I would get away from him as fast as possible if I saw him in the halls, because I didn’t want him to know that I liked him. I turned down a date with him because my aunt told me that I wasn’t allowed to date or talk to boys, and I didn’t want the other girls making fun of him or me because it would’ve been straight out of Pretty In Pink. Except I was too poor then to even get a second-hand pink Kharman Ghia.