The "Perfect" Acne Story

🌹Fourteen🌹

A fashion show?

Is Jared kidding me right now? Where did he get the idea of bringing me to a freaking fashion show?

I stared at him in disbelief while he just smiled charmingly at me.

Oh no boy that smile ain't working on me.

"What the hell are we doing here Jared?" I folded my arms around me while questioning him.

"Can't you see?" He nod his head towards the poster hanging beside the entrance.

I rolled my eyes at him, "a fashion show? Are you serious now Jared? I have no time for this." 

I was ready to turn around and walk out from this nonsense when I feel him grabbed my arm. " Take a closer look Rose," he suggested with eyes pleading me to stay.

Hesitatingly,  again I took a closer look to the poster hanging just beside the entrance. I started to analyse the poster, the main colours were consist of blues and pinks. I then took a closer look on the big wordings saying it was a Town's Fashion Week, but what caught my attention was the description below -- a bizarre catwalk with models with skin problems.

I stayed still, my mind went blank.

"Earth to Rose?" I was too caught up with the description that I didn't notice Jared waving his hands in front of me. " Yeah?" I breathed as I turned to look into those dazzling brown eyes staring back at me.

My eyebrows form into a frown, and a look of disappointment was thrown back to him. "Is this some kind of joke? Are you trying to humiliate me," I  asked him in anger. So all this time he was just trying to be nice to me and then decided to humiliate me with something that will break down my self esteem in one go. He knows my skin problems are a sensitive topic to me.

Jared's eyebrows raised with his eyes bulging, "No Rose..No. It's not like that,"  panic lace in his voice.

Before Jared could open his mouth to say something, we were interrupted by a voice calling out his name, "Jared!" A tall thin guy wearing a black blazer was running towards our direction with his hand waving in the air.

As he came closer to us, he gave Jared a big hug, "oh my god! I'm so glad you came."

Due to his sudden presence, I turned my gaze towards the floor making sure my face cannot be seen clearly by the stranger.

"Yeah, wouldn't miss your first fashion show," I heard Jared chuckled then continued by introducing him to me, "Rose, this is Ryan and Ryan this is Rose."

An outstretched hand came in to my view waiting for me to shake it back and I heard Ryan introducing himself, "Hi Rose, it's a pleasure to meet you."

"Hi," I replied shortly as I reach my hand out to return his hand shake. I swiftly shake his hand and decided to quickly release it but instead Ryan firmly grab a hold of mine. I tried slipping my hands away from his slim thin fingers but his grip was so tight. This situation made me a bit pissed that I looked up and came face to face with Ryan. I was about to ask him to let go of my hand but nothing came out from my mouth as I stare back at a guy whose face was filled with acne marks around his cheeks and forehead with a wide smile looking right back at me.

"Uhh...urmm...I...hi," I stuttered opening my mouth to say something but then closed it again making it into a grim line, I didn't know what to say. This guy in front of me is literally having acnes all over his face but he isn't planning to hide it, instead he was confidently showing it to everyone here.

Ryan chuckled at my speechless expression and finally let go of my hand.  "She's cute," Ryan commented while looking at Jared then again turn towards me, "It's okay Rose, no hard feelings if you want to ask about my appearance. I would be glad to answer your queries but I have to go backstage to prepare my models, I just came to say hi and I hope both of you will enjoy the show. Especially you Rose," he gave me a comforting smile while saying that, and with that he patted Jared on the shoulder saying he will meet us at the after party as he ran back to where he came from.

Both us just stood there looking at the silhouette of Ryan slowly disappear in the corner. I was actually speechless, my mind went totally blank.

Why is Ryan so confidently walking around with that appearance, does not he feel insecure? Is he not afraid that people will start criticising his looks? Then again, we are at his fashion show where models with skin problems are going to walk down that T stage and exposing their most vulnerable side. I suddenly feel small, useless and disappointed at myself. In the back of my mind, I was thinking why can I not be like him. 

Jared turned towards me and pat my head, " I understand your insecurities Rose, I really wanted to help you and show you that there are people out there having the same problem as you, and I hope that their confidence can create an impact on you," He explained. 

Seeing as I was not replying he added, "But if you feel uncomfortable, I can tell Ryan and we can just leave."

Do I want to leave? 

To be honest, I am actually quite curious about this fashion show. Never in my life did I hear about using models with skin problems to walk on T stage. Everyone thinks that only beautiful and a perfect body model can only walk the runway, Ryan's idea for having models with defective skin is a new concept and interesting thing. 

Jared picked up his phone ready to call Ryan but I stopped him by grabbing onto his arm. He looked at me worriedly and was about to say something when I cut him off.

"Don't call." He stared at me like I had just grew another two heads. 

"Are you sure?" He asked me with caution. 

I nodded my head slowly, "Yes." 

After hearing my answer, Jared put his phone back into his pocket and offer his hand to me while saying, "Then shall we my beautiful Rose?" 

I could feel my cheeks warmed when he said that. Clearing my throat slightly, I placed my hands on his and in return he grab onto mine and pull me towards the entrance. 

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Note: There is really a fashion show about an acne theme fashion show, I saw this article years ago and it somehow inspired me to add into my story, but I just want to say that nothing I write in this story is related to it. If you guys are interested you can search it up online. 

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