fighting perfection
by NiNA_eN
How one learns to find oneself. -Nakahara Sunako.
"How... can it be so stupid..."
one.
She remembers their confused faces and knew she was right in thinking they wouldn't understand.
She had been one of those ordinary girls, constantly pressured by society's views, always agonizing over the latest pimple or rash (she'd sensitive skin so she'd always more of those than the others.)
Weight gone up a kg and she'd cut out more food, she carefully went to the salon every month in case of odd split ends, and religiously applied all sorts of different creams in clockwork rotations.
There had always been a comb and spare makeup and tissues in her bag.
And yet...
"Even if I did that, what did I gain?"
two.
Before she met them, she was timid and rough-mannered.
But then those girls started bothering her, again and again - even though she'd withdrawn from society so far and so long - and she found she had to fight again.
This time though, she thought, this time, it would be on her own terms.
No more pretty smiles and casual talks.
She struck with physical blows and sharp stares.
This, she found, was more like her.
three.
She was sweating and gasping, high off of an adrenaline rush.
She'd never fought before, had never expressed herself and stood up for herself so much.
She felt a thrill through her veins, indignance, selfrighteousness.
"What?" she shouted, "I can't show off in this manner?"
"Next time...
No will ever call you an "ugly girl.""
An introspective. A short look on the first chapter.
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