Cycle I: Coming on Strong
The Hidden Voice
The Nerve · 02 (v2.00)
THE HOUSE OF ZAN — Zan

“I’m also just a girl. Standing in front of a boy. Asking him to love her.”— Notting Hill

Someone may turn a person down and still miss their attention.
Attraction is absent.
The approval still lands.
Their desire becomes useful even when their company would not.
A compliment starts serving as evidence of worth.
Nothing inside them changed.
Attention only made value easier to believe.
Being picked sounds like rank.
Declining the offer does not erase that lift.
Withdrawal might.
Its absence can make the proof seem gone.
Now somebody never desired becomes capable of rejection.
The relationship was never the goal.
The verdict was.
Being chosen can resemble winning for a moment.
Sometimes an unwanted person still decides whether somebody feels worth wanting.