chick magnet
Dear Abby,
I am having girl troubles at school. Two of my classmates, Yasmin and Sarah, are making me choose between them. Nothing I do is right: if I tell Sarah I want to marry her, Yasmin cries. If I tell Yasmin I want to marry her, Sarah cries. If I tell them I’m too young to get married, they get mad and make me pick one of them. Last week Yasmin started crying so hard that our teacher pulled me aside to see what had happened. When I told her, she laughed and said I should marry her instead!! I told her she was TOO OLD. The next day a bunch of the other girls in my class ran up to her and said, “Miss, Miss! Is it true?” When she asked what they meant, they said: “Is it true that you’re in love with Miles?”
I don’t even want to think about how Sarah and Yasmin responded to that…
I feel bad, though, because Yasmin’s mama told my mama that she has started trying to fix her hair in ways I will like, and she cries at night because I never say she is beautiful. Her older brother Younes (who used to be my friend!) has started threatening me about what he will do if I don’t say she is beautiful. But I’m afraid of what Sarah will say if I do that. I don’t know who’s more scary, Sarah or Younes!
Could you please help? I’m beginning to think there is no solution to this impossible situation.
PS Don’t tell Maya about any of this. Then I will really be in trouble.
Chick Magnet in Anderlecht
Dear C.M. in A.,
| Posted 2 years agoYou mention these girls as classmates. i think you need to remind them that that is exactly what they are and should be. you tell them you have bigger fish to fry, and that you can’t be concerned with such fuddy-duddyness. if you are the “chick magnet” i am thinkng about, then you have a super rad aunt who lives in seattle. you tell those silly girls that you have to study hard so that one day you can get a scholarship to the University of Washington and live with that super cool aunite of yours… she can bat them off when you get here, ah echm, i mean there.
Abby