By: Beena-Pani
Disclaimer: I think you all know that I don't own anything from Holes, because all of that stuff was thought up by Louis Sachar and not me.
Rating: PG for mild language and mild violence.
Pairing: Zigzag/OC
Summary: Before Camp Green Lake. It's a romance... involving Zigzag. Go figure.
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Prologue
They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Yet, so much money and time is spent on beauty. Why is that money and time not spent on the eye of the beholder?
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then why do so many girls complain that they are fat and starve themselves? Why do so many people pay to make their features 'perfect'? Is it not true that for beauty to be in the eye of the beholder, the beholder should be looking for beauty?
We are all beholders, and we still believe that for someone to be beautiful they must fit a certain image. The same speakers who tell us that we should be ourselves, because that is where true beauty lies, are the ones who waste hours on their makeup, hair, and clothes. They make sure that those beholding them will find beauty, so that we will listen. It is very pathetic, when we will only listen and take into consideration those who we find beautiful. And that those we find beautiful are the ones who are telling us that beauty is only skin-deep, and that we should look on the inside, and judge by what we find there.
But how can we learn that, when we are mesmerized by the outer covering of this speaker? The same one who has told us that it matters not what we look like. Who would listen and understand that meaning, when he or she is only listening because of what that person looks like?
This is the story of how one certain beholder trained his eye to find the beauty in someone he thought far from beautiful.
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Author's Note: This is the new prologue. Now it's more of a prologue, and not just a first chapter. In case you missed reading the first version, I'll just repeat what I said: Totally negative reviews will do nothing but mutilate and then kill my ego. Positive reviews make me happy. Constructive criticism will make me better at writing.