Kissing Frogs

Prompt: That's what happens when you follow your heart…

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It happened to every young girl. There was someone who just captured your imagine, made your heart run like a racehorse, and colored your cheeks a rosy pink. The thought of him turned the ground beneath you into Cloud Nine with a pretty silver lining. The love songs on the radio were just for you. Taylor Swift sung about her Romeo in Love Story while you envisioned yours, perhaps one day telling you to get that white dress. The very thought of you two not being together was incomprehensible, and, frankly, absurd.

You may have practiced writing his name a thousand times over in your notebook, knowing in your heart that one day you two would make history just as important as that which your teacher thought you were taking notes on.

When he smiled at you, everything inside just burst into a hundred little pieces. You were so sure that you belonged with him and only him. You were two souls put on this planet to meet one another. Any other possibility was just an impossibility. This was your truth.

Until, of course, you saw him kissing another girl at the spring fling. And you knew that just because he was nice to you didn't mean he had fallen as hard as you had. Now you were lying black and blue on the floor with your innocent heart broken in two. You learn very early that boys don't mean to hurt you, they're just clumsy and drop fragile things, like your heart, easily.

What you have to realize is that for every heart-breaking Casanova, there is a Romeo who has been searching for his Juliet. You might ask where he is. The answer: in the wings. You might wait long and hard and you may kiss many frogs, but one day, you will find your prince if you follow your heart.