There’s a common misconception that
everyone wants big boobs. Let me tell you something: they don’t. If
they’re fourteen and have a chest bigger than most of their school,
including the teachers, they don’t. I’m a DD cup. People pay
thousands of pounds to have their boobs enlarged to be smaller
than mine. I can’t remember the last time I passed for a half fare
on the bus. Or the last time a bus driver asked my face and not my
chest for the fare. Everyone notices boobs when you’re my age. In
fact, the only human in the world who doesn’t notice them is the
one person I would quite like to notice them.
I’d quite like
him to notice my personality too, but at this point just noticing my
mere existence will do. If I have to use my boobs to lure him in,
then so be it. The thing is, Lloyd Layton is hot, popular, and
really, really tall. Taller than everyone else in our year. Taller
than the teachers. Occasionally taller than the doorways. He knows
what it’s like to be picked on for a physical attribute you can’t
control. He’s different too. He knows what it’s like to be an
outsider. Okay, when it comes to Lloyd Layton, he’s not really an
outsider, because he’s absolutely gorgeous and loads of people like
him, and I doubt anyone would dare to pick on him for anything
because he could knock them flying with one swoop of his gigantic
hands. But still. He’s taller than everyone and I have bigger boobs
than everyone. We’re clearly a match made in heaven. It’s just a
shame that he can’t see it yet.
But I’m sure he
will one day soon.
I’m actually
moving closer to that goal because he said one sentence to me back in
December.
One sentence.
Three small words. Not the three words I would like to hear him say,
but I’ll take what I can get.
It was the last
lesson of the last day of term before the Christmas holidays. Double
technology. Not usually something to get excited about, but we came
to the conclusion that the Christmas spirit had gone to Mr Vale’s
head because he let us watch a movie in class instead of doing any
work.
The Princess
Bride.
We were allowed to
pull chairs in around the TV and sit and watch a movie for two hours.
Guess who pulled his chair in not that far away from mine?
Lloyd Layton.
I don’t know
what happened next. I can’t explain it. It was like having an out
of body experience. I’ll never understand how I had the courage to
do it, but halfway through the film, I leaned over and said, “This
is a good movie.” To Lloyd Layton. Better than that, he actually
replied. He said, “Yes, it is.”
Three whole words.
It got even better
than that again because after it was over and we were putting the
chairs up on the desks, he smiled at me. A real smile. And it wasn’t
at the person behind me because I was next to a wall. He smiled at
me.
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