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~ Reasons Why ~
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Reyna... is just Reyna. She will always be Reyna-a feisty, spunky, and cold girl on the outside, and a loyal and interesting girl with a secret on the inside. To me, she's both. She has both sides to her personality-one that she shows to her friends and the other to her foes. Of course, I'm not her foe, but I do get on her bad side often enough to be considered one sometimes. As her fellow colleague, I will say that I am, in no way, attracted to her. Other than the fact that I'm not supposed to like her, I have other reasons as well.
As a fellow Roman, I quite think it's inappropriate to be worrying about my feelings while doing my duties. I always feel the need to be with her during our praetor duties and the need to protect her during battles. This is so stupid seeing as I'm not supposed to feel this way towards her while I am doing whatever it is that I have to do. And plus, during battle, I'm supposed to be worried about how to defeat the opponent, but instead, I'm worried about Reyna's safety even though I know she's quite capable of taking care of herself.
My duty as praetor is to protect Rome... my-our-home. My mortal mom is dead (and from what I heard, she didn't even like me) and I have nobody to turn to if this place was destroyed. Being praetor is a huge honor and a big responsibility; I know this fact very well... so why can't I cooperate with Reyna without feeling the urge to gather her up in my arms and hug her whenever we face a crisis.
In addition, I have a feeling Octavian would blackmail us in some way or another... trying to prove that he'd be a more responsible praetor because Reyna and I are too "lovey-dovey". Of course, that isn't true, but that isn't going to stop Octavian from spreading rumors and such.
I shouldn't like Reyna because I know that she's not going to be a wonderful person all the time. She yells and slaps me all the time she gets mad at me; it hurts, but I can't get that image of her mad out of my head. However, despite the constant times she has slapped me, I cannot remember anything but good things about her. Whenever someone mentions Reyna in my presence, I can feel Reyna smiling at me and I remember her dashing smile and beautiful laughter. That's another reason I shouldn't like Reyna-I always get distracted whenever I see Reyna's rare smiles.
Reyna's sister-Hylla-hates me. If she found out I liked her sister... I would be dead before I could do anything to defend myself. Hylla hates males, but she hates me even more. I'm the reason why Reyna and Hylla are fighting and I'm the reason why Reyna left her sister. That's never a good thing either.
And that concludes my reasoning on why I shouldn't like Reyna. Even though this is a hundred percent true, I can't help but think of Reyna and all these reasons why slowly melt out of my head and slowly become forgotten and neglected.
I randomly got the idea while thinking about how my friends have been denying that they like someone and coming up with a whole mess o (you can fill in the blanks however you want). I think it's kind of funny trying to convince yourself about something you've already accepted a long time ago...
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Lily.