Love In Actuality

10: Kyree

He was gawking. Why was he gawking?! Something was wrong. I was too

dressy. Not dressy enough. Oh, God. What was I thinking?

The rational part of my brain kicked in. He was wearing a suit. I was fine. 

If I was fine, why wasn’t he saying anything? Oh, my goodness. I

should’ve just said no when he’d asked me, and saved myself all this

embarrassment. This was a mistake.  A torrential mistake. Who was I, to think of

myself as pretty? I was the ugly girl. Ugly and unpopular and cynical and every

other thing that people hate about themselves. That was me, all wrapped up into

one. 

More hateful thoughts spun around in my brain, but they all stopped as

soon as Aaron found his voice. “You look…beautiful.”