Tainted.

Common situation?

Whenever there is a guy making his way into my picture, there is always another girl, cutting him off my page and then pasting him onto hers.

Every time I have those "starter" feelings, you know the kind...more than neutral acquaintance, but not yet a real "likey likey"...noticing someone more than you should when you see them, but no butterflies in your stomach (yet)...well, it feels like someone I know always beats me at this game.

There tends to always be a friend, any friend, that becomes interested in a guy around the same time I do, but that friend (whoever it may be) always announces her feelings first. Because I don't like sharing my emotions with, oh, the rest of the school, I end up having to think myself out the oncoming feelings.

All the while supporting the moves that friend tells me she's planning on making towards the respective guy.

Then, because the guy has been "tainted", shall we say, he's basically off limits for the rest of...forever.

I'm so sick of having to be the one to suppress what is not very suppressible.

But what's there to do?

Nothing. Nothing at all.