It started that way. It didn't stay that way.
Seven words. By Thursday morning they were everywhere. Screenshotted on i********: stories with heart emojis and fire emojis and the crying-face emoji that could mean twelve different things depending on who was posting it. Quoted in the campus confessions page comments – some sincerely, some sarcastically, some in ALL CAPS with seventeen exclamation marks. A girl in my American Lit seminar had it as her phone wallpaper by lunch. Someone made a t****k.
I walked through campus that first morning feeling like I'd been turned inside out for public consumption. Every glance could have been admiration or mockery and I couldn't tell the difference. Near the science building, I heard a girl say it to her friend like a punchline – "it didn't stay tha
