The Girl In The Mirror
A/N: This story is meant to represent different things for every reader. That being said this story may be triggering for some people.
I want to tell you a story about a girl. She was beautiful, smart and full of confidence. She wasn't afraid to cry or say what she thought or felt. She was impervious to what others said and so kindhearted. One day though that beautiful and sweet girl disappeared. I don't know where she went but some fleeting moments I think I almost see her. But then she is gone again hidden by the other girl. The girl whose heart is just a black hole sucking things in desperate to fill it but never able. This other girl was a stranger, a loner. She didn't really fit in anywhere and she seemed to be grasping at threads of an old life. A better life. A simpler life. Her smiles and laughs seemed hollow but no one noticed, or they just shrugged it off as a phase. This strange girl had been forced to sit alone at lunch because she didn't think she had a voice. She let the two boys mock her as they acted like they loved her. After all even when she tried to speak things only got worse. So she did the only thing she could do she buried the sweet girl further in so that by the time the strange girl looked in the mirror a stranger was staring back. So in time she stopped looking in the mirror but it didn't matter. She knew what she had to do. Spring break was coming up and her family was going to spend two nights at a hotel. The stranger would finally be able to have her peace.
She had it all planned out about exactly what would happen after the little two day vacation at the hotel. She even had a note all ready to go. Then something happened, something truly wonderful. It was in that miracle that the strange girl looked in the mirror and saw a hint of the sweet girl again. She looked and saw the girl in the mirror once more. She was jaded and rough around the edges but despite still being a stranger she was still her. She was the girl in the mirror except she had grown up the hard way.