"Because sometimes, all we wish is to be someone else..."
For 17-year-old Felicia Portman, being like Jackie Johnson was the most amazing thing she could dream about...
Jackie is perfect- Good looks, good brains and a too-good-to-be-true boyfriend...
"SHE CUT MY HAIR!!" I shouted, probably the millionth time.
"Now, now stop saying that" my cousin Kim said, bored. 'It won't make your hair grow back '
I wanted to protest at her asympathetic behavior and suggest her to go to a therapist... But she did have a point though.
I turned my head to look at the mirror once more, bracing myself for the horror. Oh God, I looked like a psychopathic serial killer.
My hair was my best feature (my only good feature probably). It was brown, wavy and had a good shape.
But now it was ruined. Ruined.
"I don't understand one thing," Kim said stretching out her arms. Her school was closed for the day, so she came here to spend some time with me and in my parents' words,'To cheer me up'. "She cut a whole chunk of your hair and you didn't even do anything?"
"Who told you that dear sis?" I said, feeling insulted.
"No one... I just assumed you couldn't land a punch really," she shrugged.
"Oh I can. I so can. I could karate kick you out right now," I retorted. "Why do you think I'm in suspension anyway?"
"'cause you kicked her in in the ass?"
I wish I could! "Nope. I punched her in the face. Hard"
Kim paused for a minute, thinking how to react. "And what did she do?" she raised her eyebrows.
"What do drama queens, who can't even fight back, do? She cried and complained to Miss Hailey, our principal and here I'm, sitting hairless in front of you" I frowned.
"Now that's a very inappropriate word. You're not really hairless," she said in the typical tone of hers.
Kim was just thirteen but talked to me as if she was my grandma.
"What do I do now Kimchi? I whined as I hugged my fluffy spongebob themed pillow.
"Get a haircut maybe?" she suggested. "And for Christ's sake, don't call me that"
I ignored her request.
"But the bitch has cut it too short, Kimchi" I said trying to touch the cut chunk of hair. "No haircut would match now. Only Bob cut is left which is hideous I must tell you"
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I noticed Kim fidgeting awkwardly just as I said my words...
.... and it hit me.
Kim had Bob cut too!
"I-I meant, it would look hideous on me haha" I added hastily. "Looks gorgeous on my Kimchi though, haha"
"Sure, be right back" she said as she got out of the bed and then out in the hallway.
