love is respect and understanding.

hate it. what's the history behind valentine's day. a 'saint' went around defying the government's orders, secretly 'marrying' young roman soldiers to young, innocent girls.

the valentine's day now is just a commercial holiday, made to increase sales around that time. and again, it's not to celebrate love, it's to celebrate lust. if someone really and truly loves someone, they'll do that kind of thing everyday, not just once in a year. (and that's also my explanation for mother's day, father's day, grandparent's day, family day and any other holiday to appreciate a person for just that day.)

for the first question, refer to my first review (ie. no.)

second question, I haven't loved someone romantically ever, so, no.

nope. I have little self esteem. those years of bullying really took a toll on me.

not really. I think with the way society has been structured forever, there's that one perfect person, and the rest are beneath that person just because they don't act, dress, eat, speak like society demands them to. so until society changes and doesn't have a 'perfect' person, everyone will have confidence issues.

clothing can sometimes tell something about a person, like how Bryant said. but in other cases it doesn't necessarily have to be true. someone wearing black doesn't mean that they're 'emo', or someone wearing sparkly shit doesn't mean that they're perpetually happy without any worries in the world. it's like psychology, it can be applicable, but most of the time, it's just random musings. you can never judge someone and stereotype them.

hmm... I think you should reconsider putting those really short interludes about her thoughts. it disrupts the flow of the story (cuz you already have the story she's writing going on as well) and they also don't sound like they're coming from her. it's just not the style I get off of her. but otherwise, keep up the good work.

riding a rollercoaster. for someone who has a phobia of height as well as fast moving things, that's very daring.

I never deny it to myself, but I guess my friends don't know me well enough to realize if there's something to deny or not. they know to leave me alone. )

definitely! who doesn't need love? it makes the world go round.

no, I don't believe in love at first sight. although it may give me warm fuzzy feelings to think if that, I know it's not true. I do, however, believe in lust at first sight. I really think any relationship someone has without having a mature mind cannot have love in it. I believe love comes from respecting a person and getting to know them. their characteristics, how they react in certain situations, and even those 'ugly' people become beautiful to a person because of their characteristics and manners. I think you can love anyone as long as you respect them. it doesn't matter if you don't love a person when you get married (and if you 'love' someone else at that point, it's only lust) you'll eventually respect them and their decisions as you get to know them, and them you'll love that person. simple as that. it all starts with respect.

Oh no. I'm so sorry this happened to a wonderful writing like you. I admire the cool-headed way in that you're discussing this and I hope that whoever's doing it will stop.

Please don't lose faith in us good ol' reviewers though!

Narq.

I seriously just reread the entire story tonight. It's great. I love that you take it slow, makes it so much more relatable and realistic. I had a bunch of thoughts while reading it, but now that I'm actually reviewing, I seem to have forgotten everything.

OMG those freaking douchebags!

Argh I thought the plagiarism wave was over a long time ago.

I'm sorry this happened to you, and I really admire your ability to handle this with grace.

Have a good day!

Oh Curious, that's so terrible. Just letting you know we're all with you on this, and so glad you're being strong though its happened even more than once (even once is gutwrenching, more that that... geez). Totally with you on all you've said. happy new year? good luck in the finals and looking forward to your new chapter :)

Read it. And I'm sorry. Again.

I really am.

Plagiarising is really... dumb. And it really doesn't bring any satisfaction, as you said. I've gotten so mad about plagiarising before and I just... I feel like a hypocritical bitch, though I already said this through tumblr, but. Yeah.

Continue the good work- I'm glad my stupidity doesn't bring you down (since lots of authors feel like that after being plagiarised, consider notes I read that they leave).

Really sorry, once again.