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I shared most of my classes with this girl and we were well acquainted. I was deluded, thinking she liked me because she wanted to wear my jacket whenever the AC was too cold. Or because she waved and giggled at me once. She legit ran away from me when I asked her out.
Word spread quickly that a subhuman got rejected by her. For the rest of that school year, I had to deal with her friends, and kids I didn't even know, coming up to me and asking me about what happened that day.
I pretty much took it on the chin and never talked to her after that. I think the only reason I coped so well is because I never saw her with another guy.