What does he do that scares you?
He loves me

When he looks at me, the way he looks at me, he does not know what I lack. . .or - how - I am incomplete. He sees me for what I am - as I am. He's happy to see me.

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 loath themselves. Sometimes mean girls aren't really mean girls at all. They're just girls who are losing their girlhood too fast.

Her tongue is a sharp razor with words like poison. People say she's a mean girl but that's only because she wants them to think that. It's easier to label herself a mean girl than to reveal the truth about herself, that she lives her life in loneliness. She's a girl you see in movies with designer clothes and diamonds wrapped around her neck and wrists. Shes never seen unkept, She's popular. She's a teenage girl.

Sydney's mean to others because she's mean to herself. She doesn't allow people to see through the cracks of her life. If they did, they would see a girl whose parents are never home and a glamorous house that's always empty with just her inside. Sydney hates a lot of things, like her parents always leaving her for work and people thinking they know her when they don't. Being mean is a defense mechanism. She protects herself because there's no one else to protect her.

Nobody's ever understood this about her. Until him.

Miguel Diaz is no fool. He sees through the mean girl act their very first conversation. People say she's evil. But she's not evil. She's just a girl. A girl protecting herself from getting hurt. Miguel felt that he had two options when it came to this girl.

Option A: He could try and figure this girl out and get her to trust him.

Option B: He could just leave her alone.

Miguel's heart is too pure. He trusts too easily. He chooses A.

In Sydney's eyes, Miguel Diaz is a nobody. He's like everybody else who thinks they know her. He's just a boy. He has no business intruding on her life. And yet she finds herself admiring his effort, his eagerness to break down her walls and discover the real her. His heart is unlike anything she's ever seen. He doesn't stop asking her questions. He tries to make her smile. He tries. That's all Sydney's ever wanted is for someone to try.

But this isn't a movie. She can't fall for him. She won't allow herself to. Because Sydney knows how it will end up — he'll realize she's not who he thinks she is and he'll get bored of trying. She's protecting herself from that pain. Because in real life, girls like Sydney Benoist don't fall in love with boys like Miguel Diaz. But maybe that's because she never met somebody who sees 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 / Jayden Barron   Sailor Adams /

Kathryn Winnick   Rosemary Everette

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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