by Jezabelle Sherlock » Fri Oct 04, 2019 4:36 am
Jez turned around in her seat and patted the cushion of the chair next to her. "Sit, and give me a moment to think."
And think she did, taking some time.
"What I meant was... growing up, you probably had a circle of friends who had similar home lives to your own, right? With parents who were well off. And sometimes, those kind of friends suffer from rich kid syndrome. I don't need to explain that one, do I? You don't have that, bytheway, but I think that's pretty obvious. In boys, it's obnoxious. And in girls it's pretty obnoxious too, but it isn't always 'cause their parents are rich. Some act the same way because of their looks. Whether it's because they got everything they wanted their whole life, or because the media tells them they deserve everything they want through their looks, they become those princesses you mentioned before. And those princesses like to flock to the boys with the nice cars and wads of cash. I'm betting that even though you weren't looking for them, because of your social circle, those were the kind of girls who found you... feel free to step in and tell me I'm wrong about any of this.
"So you come to this place and, during whatever happenstance occured, you meet Colette. A girl quite unlike any you've met before, physically at least. And she reacts differently to your kindness and your gifts. She appreciates every little gesture, and is overwhelmed by the big ones. When some stuck up princess might've overlooked your generosity and complained that something wasn't the right colour or brand, she instead was ecstatic and at a loss over it. She appreciates the thought and emotion that goes into these gifts as much as, if not more so than the gifts themselves, while the others cared only for the object itself and assigned no emotional significance to it whatsoever.
"...Isn't being appreciated by someone an attractive trait for them to have? Is that a bad thing? I don't think it is...."
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