Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.
Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.
I desperately wanted to say Please Donβt Waste Your Time on Me because I feared that I would somehow be the cause of his undoing if I allowed him to faun over me in the ways that his heart desired. He was, after all, Enlightened and I was a Caster. There was no possibility of his interest in me ever becoming anything more than a romantic fable...