The One

you identify the girl who you are so afraid to lose, who you cannot live without, who makes you so nervous you could throw up,

and then pretend, for days, weeks, months, that none of those things are true. 

you pretend to be a guy with nothing to lose, no one he cannot live without, no reason to be nervous — he’s got options. and this gets increasingly difficult to fake as you cut off all your other ‘options’ because you are in reality so dead set on having this one girl.