Love is a sweet smell

of lavender and lovers.

When the rest of the world

is suffering,

love can make the difference

between failure and success.

In life, you have those "I knew it!" moments. Whether it is in the middle of a battle against a stupid brat who thinks she can outsmart you by staying away from your wrath or finding out that your little brother stole your make-up that you hid underneath your pillow for avoid it being stolen in the first place.

Anyways, I am getting a little sidetracked from my point. Then again, I guess that's okay, seeing that I just have to write whatever I feel like at the time. But, recently, I have had one of those stupid moments. And I mean that it is one of those stupid "I knew it!" moments.

Now, I'm guessing that I have to elaborate more than that. I have never really liked any guy who I've come across. They are all either stupid, dumb, or arrogant. Or a combination of the three. No guy is able to keep pace with me in any sense of the word. Intellectually, all of the guys I've met are as smart as a lamp post. I mean, when the bulb in the lamp post never goes off. At all. They never catch my attention, and even when they tried, they really knew nothing about me. It has always been quite pathetic.

By the way, that's not my "I knew it!" moment. He is my stupid "I knew it!" But really, it's that he intrigues me. I mean, come on, he is supposedly a genius. Personally, I wouldn't go that far. But I will admit that he is smart.

He had to have been if he could beat me in a one-on-one matchup. Well, he didn't technically beat me, he just got the best of me for one second. But I did win it...not that anyone actually acknowledges it.

I hate it how smart he is. It's irritating because he outsmarted my "guy theory". This theory states that all guys are generally all the same. It is made of three major basic primacies.

1) All guys are dumb. They fight out of their emotions, whether they say they do or not. Take Naruto as a perfect example. Guys think they know everything when, in reality, they have no clue at all. Which is why I can't stand them.

2) All guys want control over women. They are supposedly superior to all women. This primacy is the most annoying and obviously can easily be proven false. Trust me on this one. I have beaten up so many guys that it's almost humiliating to their entire gender. (That would be based on #2's rules). They feel the need to belittle women in order to create power over them and thus gain control over them. (by the way, I just happen to be the exception to this)

3) All guys are assholes. They don't know when a joke has gone too far or when they just need to stop treating people like crap. Do I need to really go on into detail for this one? I think not.

Now, I have lived believing this were true. Even my brothers had signs of these encoded into their DNA makeup. But, then he had to ruin it by being...well, I don't know...different? special?

He had to prove all of the theory wrong. He was intelligent, and I could hold hour-long conversions and debates. He challenged me mentally, and unfortunately, he always won at shoji. Shoji required brain cells to play. So #1 was out of the window.

He was always laid-back and let me boss him around. He complained, but he never actually wanted to take control over any situation. And as we both grew up, he seemed even more relaxed around me and accepted my constant orders I expected from him. As my guide, he even made sure to get up before I did. And knowing him, he enjoyed his sleep. So, of course, he just had to prove #2 wrong.

Now for #3, he had his moments where I couldn't stand him. For the most part, he was kind, caring, polite, and...nevermind. That thought had no point to my point. He was a genuine guy. On top of that, he was too lazy to be an asshole. Being an asshole required energy, which he never was willing to exert. (Well, at least, not any more than necessary.)

My point to the theory was to give me a general checklist to make sure that I was right. To give me a sense of control. I guess that since I have gotten to know him, I haven't had to have that. Which SUCKS. I need to be in control of the things I can control. He has changed every aspect of my theory. I think about his stupid face too much, when I can't even see him that much anyways. (This makes him even more of a stupid genius.)

His name is Nara Shikamaru, and he scares the living shit out of me. I think my "I knew it!" moment is now. I love the stupid, smart, caring, cute, stupid, lazy, stupid genius