Never Pretty | True Beauty Fanfiction

I want to be her

Long ago, there was a petite young girl with pretty blue eyes that told all tales of the sky, she had long blonde hair that swayed along the rhythm of the breeze and her porcelain, pale skin brought in the attention of every man and woman in town. She was nice and kind to everyone, her smile never left her face albeit all the hardships she-

"Mom, is this what being pretty means? To be thin, have good skin and blue eyes?" I asked with curiousity as my nine-year old self anticipated my mom's earnest answer.

"Why? Don't you find her very beautiful, darling?” My mom asked back with a kind tone, putting aside the story book she was reading aloud for me. "Don't you want to become like Cinderella?"

"I-I do like her and I want to be her." I answered back enthusiasticly as I dreamt of my black, curly hair magically turning into blonde straight hair like Cinderella's. I dreamt of how I'd become thin and beautiful like Cinderella once I grew up and all I had to do was be kind. And maybe even find my fairy godmother. "I want to be Cinderella. I want to be pretty."

"Yeah well that was the dumb nine-year old Jugyeong's words. The present Jugyeong would say I'm ugly and I'm proud of it."

Or maybe she wouldn't.......