I find it totally unbelievable that the boys continued to fantasize about Lux even after seeing her having sex with every man in sight - and on the roof! The image would have been destroyed totally.
Mercifully, I didn't know any girl like Lux in high school. If some girl was like that I wouldn't even dare walk near her.
Honestly. Not f joking. Seriously. Forever.
I think I'm in love with lux. That was playin it down. I know I'm in love with lux.
I thought you we're gonna rave about her, like the guy between us did. I'm glad you didn't. She's young & beautiful, but that's about it. My dream girl is humorous & intelligent & intellectual & free-spirited...... & young & beautiful.
shareAt 14? Probably.
Guys at the age of the narrator(s) (13-17, I imagine) are generally not looking for depth. They're young. They fetishize more than fantasize (and they fantasize a LOT). That's why they were in love AT the Lisbon girls, more than they ever were in love WITH them.
Lux was the epitome of what they perceived the girls to be: beautiful, unattainable, promiscuous.
The thing is, that was Lux; they just blanketed Lux's personality, the overall mystery and their own fevered imaginations over all the sisters.
As I said, at 14, she -- or at least a girl like her -- would probably have been my dream girl.
Lux was pretty, flirty, sassy and mysterious; unless I had a chance to get to know her as a person, all I would have gone on is her image -- just like the boys.
They were teenage boys -- all they saw is the surface.
You, hopefully, learn as you grow not to assume a person's exterior is the whole picture. Unfortunately, you don't start your teenage years fully developed, mentally, physically or emotionally. God, how much easier would it have been to endure the teenage years if that were the case?
At my age, I try NOT to be attracted to girls THAT age. It's better that way!
shareTotally.
shareAs a hormone-addled teenager, yes, but only on an abstract, primal level. Otherwise, as anything other than a temporary object of adolescent lust, no, she'd be poison. Remember, some dreams turn out to be nightmares.
shareyes, she would her having many partners in no way affects that.
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Applied Science? All science is applied. Eventually.
For me no, and I am speaking in general not just as a teenager, I don't like blondes and for me she does not have enough body (imagining Kirsten dunst as she is now) specifically the booty region., But I could see how many people would want that. I prefer dark hair with blue/green eyes and freckles.
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