Insecure: Love a Pretty Face

Insecure: Love a Pretty Face By: Luxmuttatio

  "Mega? Dinner is ready...come down please!" Mega's mom called her downstairs.

"DING DING DING!" Mega is walking down the stairs when her phone gets a notification. She runs a Tik Tok account called "MegaGoneFree" where she sings to her 4.9 million followers

Mega checks her phone, it's a notification from Tik Tok...Mega loves to sing, she also knows how to play the Ukulele. She saw that it was a comment. She pushed it off for a while until the notifications kept coming. By the time she was at the bottom of the staircase, she had about 100 notifications from comments. She decided to check them before going to the dining room.

She didn't expect it to be hate comments because she hasn't gotten a lot of them yet because people usually just comment about how good she sings. Unfortunately, the comments were about her weight. Mega was so sad because of the fact that she was overweight. She was so insecure.

At the dinner table, Mega was silent. For dinner, her mom served; Steak, asparagus and her mom's famous, creamy mashed potatoes. That was her favorite meal.

She ate the food quickly, since it was her favorite meal. After that, Mega went back upstairs and took a shower. The whole time she was in the shower, she thought of those comments. She started crying. Luckily for her, the sound of the shower water blocked out the sound of her crying.

"Mega, what's wrong?" asked her mom. Mega was trying to figure out what to say to her mom, she didn't want to worry her mom. She had to say something quickly. She had to act like she dozed off. "Wait what? Sorry I dozed off there."

"I said, what's the matter with you Mega?"

"Nothing mom, just tired." Said Mega in a sorrowful voice. They then wished each other a good night. That was close.

The next day Mega did not leave her room, she cut off all communications from all of friends and family. She even stopped going to parties with her friends. She only left for necessities like food and drink.

She even wore baggy clothes to hide her body. Abra was blowing up her phone, worried because she also saw the comments, but Mega just never replied.

It was summer break so she had all summer to fix herself... at least that's what she thought. She started eating only one time a day. Small portions too, and the portions would only be; salads, chickens, and or fruits. Mega was so sad.

She figured that posting Tik Toks of her singing songs would help- she loved posting Tik Toks- but she turned the comments off first. It helped a little, Mega didn't like having them off. She figured that she shouldn't have to turn the comments off just to be happy.

She started eating only one time a day which would be only salad. Mega stopped coming out of her room, avoiding any contact with her family and friends. She ignored all of her friends' texts about parties because she was too embarrassed of herself.

She had done this for the whole summer, only leaving her room to get food or drink. She didn't have to worry about leaving the room to use the bathroom because her room had a bathroom. Mega pretty much repeated that whole routine for the rest of the summer.

She had school in 2 weeks. Mega was devastated, scared of what people were gonna think about her.

Oh my gosh! What am I going to do? What if everyone makes fun of me and laughs at how I breathe!

Mega started watching K-dramas on Netflix. She valued Netflix a lot, it cheers her up  .She chose this genre of shows because she didn't know Korean. Therefore, she had to put on "Closed Captioning". She figured that reading the CC while watching a show in a different language would take her mind off of everything. It did.