She asked me why I stared at her whenever we were seated in the same room. Why all my attention was focused on her, even when hers wasn't anywhere on me.
The distressed sound of her voice and the lost look in her eye are what led me to answer her question.
I stare at her because she is beautiful. Because I'm quite aware that if I don't, she might do something spectacular and I would've never known.
My attention is constantly focused on her because she is a light and I am a moth, I must seek what draws me in: she drew me in.
Her smile and her laugh made me swoon, made me feel light headed, while mine did nothing to affect her at all.
I answered her question with three simple words, I don't know because it's better if she doesn't know that I find her unbelievably beautiful. that she is a light in my dim world.
It's better if she doesn't know that I love her, that every single day is filled with me counting down the minutes until I can see her again.
It's just better this way, there's no heartbreak or rejection. Call me selfish, but I think that I'm allowed to look out for myself.