Broken is Beautiful (PJM 18+)

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I can't halt the smile that breaks across my face and the lightness that fills my heart. "Are you sure?" I ask Jimin once more and he nods, smiling brightly back at me. "I'm certain." I hug Jimin tightly around the neck and feel like crying.

I've been made this promise before, but something was different in his eyes. There was a certainty that swirled around his irises that reassured me. For once in my life, I believed a man when he said he wouldn't leave me.

Pulling out my phone from my pocket, I dial Taehyung's number. Once his deep voice answers on the other end, I tell him, "I'm ready. Have Hoseok bring a camera, I have an idea." I hit the red end button and put my phone away.

Staying in each other's arms, I wait for Hoseok and Taehyung to come back to my office. It was now or never. I was frightened but I was ready. I'd stop hiding under clothes and lies. I'd show myself to the world, I'd bear my soul and witness the way humanity receives it.

"I'll be right here. I'm not going anywhere. I'll be by your side no matter what." Jimin offers me a reassuring grin. My lips land softly on his warm cheek and kiss it gently. "Thank you."

I'm sweating profusely, my heart is pounding, and my body is jittery. I'm standing against a plain wall of my office and am staring down the darkened lens of a Canon camera. Hoseok had set everything up for us to record a video.

"Once we are finished, I'll upload this video to all our social media accounts, our website and send it to every news station." Hoseok informed me as he finished placing the camera just right, angled perfectly towards me. "Let me know when you're ready." I nod.

My eyes flow around the room, taking in the faces of people who were here to cheer me on. Hoseok was giving me a smile and a nod. Taehyung gifted me his precious boxy smile and a thumbs up. My gaze stopped and settled on Jimin. He grinned and walked over to me. He laces his fingers with mine and holds my hand tightly. "You got this Luna. You're going to kill it." I swallow deeply and nod.

Jimin releases my hand and steps away from the camera frame. "Okay, I'm ready Hoseok." He nods and his slender finger presses a button on the camera and we're recording.

My words are like cement, falling into water, settling at the bottom of my stomach. I had so much I wanted to say, to convey. But I was petrified. My eyes stare down the barrel of the camera lens and just when I'm about to choke on my fears, Jimin utters one more thing to me.

"I believe in you baby, you can do this."

I stare at him for a moment, gathering every ounce of courage I have to finally show the world the real me. I swallow my fear and begin to speak.

"My name is Luna Day, I'm the owner of Luna Cosmetics. Earlier today someone leaked false information about me and I'm here to clarify it. I have never had any work done to my face and I never will. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I'll gladly support my fellow women who just want to feel good about themselves.

But I think it's time I shared my story with the world. Do what you want with this information. But this is my story."

My mouth is bone dry as I remove my button up shirt and grimace as the sleeves slide off my arms. I'm left only in a white tank top. Bare to anyone who is watching. I hold up my right arm to the camera, letting the lens focus on the scarred tissue that has plagued my existence for an entire decade.

"This is why I've been meeting with Dr. Jeon. I'm a burn victim. My father was very mentally ill. He had served in more wars than his fragile brain could handle. He had PTSD and couldn't handle everything he had done in his life and the lives he had taken. His mentality slipped away. He turned the blame for his broken life to the only thing he had left, his family. He tried to burn down our house down and burn his family alive in hopes to end his suffering and take us down with him.

He succeeded in taking his own life and almost took my mother's and mine. Thanks to him, I have this constant reminder than even someone biologically programmed to love me, didn't. I found myself grotesque, tainted and unlovable. I hid myself away from the world and pushed everyone away from getting to know the real me." Tears roll down my face and a piercing pain strikes my heart at the weight of the words I'm expressing.

"Dealing with my own demons, I strived to create products that would make anyone, and everyone feel beautiful. If I couldn't feel beautiful myself, I at least wanted everyone else to feel that way. I wanted to improve each person's self-esteem and give them the self-worth I never had. I put my entire hopes and dreams into each of my products. I just want to make the world a more beautiful place and in turn, feel beautiful myself. Something to finally make me feel good about myself.

But I want you to tell me your story. Release your worries and fears into the air and let them float away like a balloon to the clouds. Use the hashtag 'broken is beautiful' on every social media platform and tell me what you dislike about yourself. Tell me what you're afraid to show someone. Let's normalize abnormal and embrace it. Let's put our anxiety out there in the world and lift each other up. Let's show everyone that we are not alone. Let's shout it to the world that even if we think there is something wrong with us, we are still limited edition and we are still imperfectly perfect. Thank you."

Hoseok hits the red stop button on the camera and all three of them clap for me. Taehyung had tears soaking his tan cheeks. He runs up to me and engulfs me in a tight embrace. Jimin's the next to wrap his arms around me. I can't help but smile as I hug the two most important men in my life. 

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