Boyfriend

The word feels strange on my tongue. Like I might just taste it and spit it out because it tasted wrong.

I might as well bite my tongue and taste blood than say that word out loud, because the word girlfriend has never been reserved for someone like me.

Merriam-Webster says that the definition of a girlfriend is: a frequent or regular female companion in a romantic or sexual relationship. And I already know I could never qualify.

What does that make me then? Yes, I am a girl, yes, I can be a friend, but when put together?

That just sounds like a made up word.

Written by Nicolle Knapová
Writer

Nicolle is a 30-year-old young adult writer and freelance blogger from the Czech Republic. She has a master’s degree in Creative Writing and Publishing at Bournemouth University.

She loves to write about music, books and tv shows. If she’s not writing her fan fiction, she’s writing poetry and shares it with her friends and family.