Considering our ages, you would think that we can handle it...the truth. You would think that girls like us can you know, be fine with being told, "I'm not interested." Which I mean is actually the truth. We are old enough to deal with disappointment and rejection, its fine. We don't expect every person we are interested in to tell us we are the girls of their dreams, and they want us like we want them. Its life and things just don't work out that way. With that in mind, boys/men seem to get the wrong impression that we simply cannot handle the truth. They either breach all communication and begin to avoid, or they make up senseless lies that are shallow enough to be uncovered. So basically the point of this note is, if you don't like someone in that way, tell them. Of course rejection stings no matter who you are, but it feels nice not knowing you have to spend days contemplating what went wrong. Maybe you can be friends, or at least save both of you from a whole lot of unnecessary damage and baggage.