I'm Not That Girl
A Rocky Horror Picture Show fanfic
Note: I don't own RHPS. Richard O'Brien does, and he is quite a lucky man!
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Columbia sat on her bed, thinking. I might love 'im, she thought. But Riff loves Magenta. Why did he kiss me if he loves Magenta?
She sighed and let herself fall back on to her bed. She thought of how Riff-Raff understood her, how he knew how upset she was to see someone she loved with another person. But this time, he wouldn't understand.
"Face it, you've fallen in love, and you're just gonna get hurt all over again!" Columbia said with another heavy sigh.
She'd always felt bad for Riff; he was like a paper doll. Fragile but beautiful, even if no one else saw it.
In her bedroom was a mutilated rose sitting in a vase. Columbia got up and began to pick the petals off of it.
"He loves me...he loves me not..." she said, removing petal by petal. "He loves me..." She reached the last one, then said wistfully, "He loves me not.
"There is somebody he loves, though, and if I really am in love with him, shouldn't I want him to be happy?"
A single tear rolled down her cheek as she dropped the stem of the rose on the floor.
"He loves a girl...a wonderful girl...my best friend. I'm not that girl."
Columbia looked at herself in the mirror. "I'm not that girl..." she whispered, as the tears were beginning to show. "I'm not that girl..."