"You always know what I'm thinking, how I'm feeling," I muttered one warm summer day, head resting on your slacken shoulder as you delicately peel an orange I had bought for you piece by piece. "How do you do that?"

"Because I know you," you answer honestly, as if it was simply a fundamental truth of the universe. It made my heart ache in ways I could never adequately articulate, so I simply buried my face into your neck as though to hide it from the world.

They say mean girls are a projection of their inside feelings. That they spread their hatred for themselves over others so nobody could see how much they loathed themselves. Sometimes mean girls aren't really mean girls at all. They're just girls who are losing their girlhood too fast.

Sydney Benoist was a mean girl. A primadonna. The popular chick. The kind of girl you only see in the movies with her designer clothes and looks like could kill. Her heart was cold, her soul dark, like she wasn't even human. That's what you'd hear from everybody, anyway. But, come on. She's just a teenage girl. How bad could she possibly be? That's what Miguel Diaz asked himself the first day he saw her.

But, like I said, mean girls are just reflections of their inner feelings. Sydney was mean to others because she was mean to herself. She hated herself. She hated her hair. She hated her teeth. She hated her body. She hated her huge and glamorous home because it was always empty. She hated her parents for never being home. She hated a lot of things. Which is why she felt the need to protect herself. If she was mean to others, then nobody could see just what her life was really like.

Miguel was no fool. He saw through her mean girl act like cellophane. She wasn't evil. She was just a girl. A girl who was guarding her heart. So Miguel felt that he had options: A. He could try and figure the girl out and get her to trust him or B. He could just leave her alone.

Of course, he picked A.

Sydney was distraught. Who the hell was this guy thinking he could come into her life and try to fix her. She didn't need fixing. She was perfectly happy living in the bubble wrap and she surrounded herself in. Miguel Diaz was a nobody. He was just a boy. He had no business intruding on her life. But alas, there was always that one part in the movie where the girl started to see the boy differently and the more Miguel started to her her to open up and talk to him, Sydney began to admire his heart. He didn't give up which was a rare thing when it came to people in her life. He never stopped asking her questions, which annoyed her to high heaven, but he was trying. That's all she ever wanted was for someone to try.

But she couldn't fall for him. She refused to. Because Sydney knew how it would end up — he would realize she wasn't who he thought she was and he would get bored of her like everyone else. She needed to protect her heart. It would never work. Because in real life, girls like Sydney don't fall in love with boys like Miguel.

That's just because she'd never met somebody who saw her for more than just a mean girl.

Mimi Keene   Sydney Benoist

Xolo Maridueña   Miguel Diaz

Swann Arlaud Alexander Benoist

Jessica Alba Caroline Benoist

Nick Robinson Charlie Howard

Jaylen Barron   Sailor Monroe

Kathryn Winnick   Rosemary Evertte

notes, rich, popular, mean girl x poor, nerdy, complete sweetheart who would do anything for her??? I think yes.

#Sydguel is actually the most iconic couple ever

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