Author's Note: This is something that I wrote for my best friend, who's penn name is Foxy redhead. She is amazing! I realized this sounds like something that Maya would say about Riley. So here it is, Who She Is To Me. (NO! This is NOT a Rilaya...ew.) They are besties and nothing more.
She is the best person I know, and yet here she is, afraid of what others will think of her. They call her childish and a fool for being herself and she believes them.
Who are they to tell her she's a being ridiculous?! Them with their dyed hair and double pierced ears. Them trying so hard to be someone their not and they have the NERVE to call HER a fool.
She is beautiful in her own way. Yet she want's so badly to be accepted and will put down her amazing individuality and uniqueness for it.
She walks through life afraid to show the world who she is, and its awful, because she is brave and kind and selfless. She is wonderful and cheerful and my best friend! She sees the beauty and wonder in this world and she sees only the best in those she meets.
She tells me how she sees herself. Are we talking about the same person?
She claims she is spineless and weird. She claims she is too shy. She says that she is too stupid to see her friends for who they are.
She feels stupid for seeing nothing but the goodness and happiness in mankind.
How terrible this tragedy is. "What a shame, that the girl who once believed in magic and fairy tales, had to be struck with reality with demons in her mind and the fear of never being loved. - k.f."
What a shame it truly is.
Because, not only is she willing to put down the very things that makes her special, and to bend over backwards to fit into society, she is afraid to break the thin glass that confines her.
She wants to let go, and to be herself, but she is still afraid of what the fools will think, which defeats the purpose of breaking free.
She is amazing and talented and a big sister to me and here she is, feeling all alone and in the dark, when in reality, the reason she feels alone and in the dark is because she is a single flame lighting up a deep dark hole. And sadly, the once bright light, is slowly dulling, becoming nothing but black ashes and darkness.
I'm trying to tell her how I see her, but it's as though she's covering her ears.
And so I had to write it.
Had to show her who she is to me.
Author's Note: Okay, once more, I know this sounds a little like a Rilaya but I swear it's not! It is for my best friend who is the Riley to my Maya although I consider myself Riley as well... It's confusing but that's beside the point. (Trying to remember what the point was...) Please review! Thanks! :D