I want to step into the pages of a book.

No, I don't mean that I want to be

the badass sword-wielding damsel

who gets herself into distress,

only to be the girl who gets

everyone else out of it.

I don't want to be the little blonde girl

with a lifetime of bad luck,

except for the one day in which

she falls in love with the school's

biggest asshole,

yet little did they both know,

he's actually quite pleasant.

No, I don't want to be reincarnated

as yet another protagonist.

No, I can do without the bullshit.

I can do without boys in blue

—black, and blue.

Sometimes purple, and a little green.

I'm just asking...

can I be their friend?

Like, when shit gets rough,

when the hero has been kidnapped

one too many times for a single day,

can I be the one she vents to?

Can I be the one she tells first about

that kiss that stole her breath

—the one she didn't even know

she was holding?

I want to be at her service,

holding the scabbard while she

takes the villain down,

winning his heart over in the process.

And when the book finally ends,

when the pages have closed,

I want to be in the epilogue,

her next adventure safe with me.