Reflections

Part 6

I AM BACK!

For the next few days everything was going great. Mia was happy-happier than she had been in a while. The boys all supported her and had only slipped up with names or pronouns a few times. It was almost to good to be true, and of course all good times comes to an end eventually...

When Mia woke up she knew that today was not a good day. There was empty feeling in her chest and a heavy pressure pushing down on her stomach and shoulders. Tears of unknown causes were burning behind her eyes and her skin felt tight. She felt wrong. She got up and walked to the bathroom shuddering at her reflection as she approached the mirror she was disgusted by her appearance. Stubble lined her chin and her eye brows where thick,bushy and way too masculine. Well there was nothing she could do about the eyebrows,not yet anyway but shaving,shaving is something she can do.

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Standing back to look at her handy work she sighed in defeat. Yes her face was baby smooth again but she still didn't look feminine. She needed something more, something....

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Mia stood an a small shop,the lighting was bright and the whole shop was white and smelled like a strange combination of rubber gloves , perfume and strawberries. To most people it was just your average drugstore but to Mia who had never dared to venture further into the store; past the medicines and the condoms and sugar free sweets, it was heaven.

Her hand ghosted along each shelf as she carefully examined each item: coconut scented hand cream, lash thickening mascara , bright berry purple nail polish ... Everything was so pretty,she wanted it all and it made her heart race with material want and excitement.

Knowing that the boys would be back soon her eyes scurried over the displays and quickly she wrapped her hand around something,paying quickly before she could change her mind . She kept her hand securely wrapped around the object until she was safely back in the comfort of the house where she finally let the thin black tube roll out onto the bed sheets.

Liquid eyeliner.

The most important part of any alternative women's look. If anything was going to make Mia feel normal again then this would be it. She picked it up again between her fingers,holding it gently like it would break if held it too tightly. Slowly she turned the top and pulled out the thin applicator brush that was coated in a thick layer of shiny black liquid. The slight glistening seemed to hypnotise her for a moment before her anticipation pulled her back into focus. Hesitantly she lifted the brush to her eyelid and took a deep breath before turning to the mirror slightly a beginning to draw a line just above her lashes and outwards in an attempt to create a wing. She continued to swipe and dab with the brush on her lids attempting to mimic the styles of her favourite punk rock females. Of course it didn't turn out perfect first time; the wings where uneven and rounded rather than pointed and some of the liquid and smudged above her eye. It was no where near Chrissy Constanza level but it wasn't to bad for a first attempt she decides. She's about to wash it off and try again until she hears a knock on her door,she hadn't realised the boys were home yet.

"Come in!" She calls out
"Hey I wa-oh." Luke pauses in the doorway looking over her appearance for a second before slightly nodding to himself.

"What?" Mia asked him completely puzzled by his behaviour.

"It's just.." He walks towards the bed. "This would probably look better if you didn't have two massive hairy things right here." He finished pointing towards her eyebrows.

She laughs sharply in relief,she had been so sure he was going to say something bad,though she had no idea why. "Well sorry we can't all have perfect eyebrow game like you."

"You could."
"How?"
"Let me do them for you." Luke says like its the most obvious answer in the world. (It kind of is.)

"You? Do my eyebrows." The girl laughed.

"Well why not? Who do you think does mine?" He replied .

She shrugged. "Okay fine but don't hurt me!"

"No promises Mi-Mi." He Laughed skipping out of her room to fetch his supplies leaving Mia wondering what the hell she had got herself into. She didn't half to wonder for long though as he returned only moments later with a small black case.

"Ready?" He asked while he began to unzip the case.

"As I'll ever be.." She sighed nervously.

"Damn don't be so scared okay? I won't hurt you ...much." His attempt at a joke earned him a slap on the shoulder. "Okay ouch no jokes I get it. So what do you want them to look like?" The Blonde boy asked as he picked up a pair of tweezers.

"I don't know just make the thinner and less...manly"

"Less manly! alright here we go." He said as he gripped the first hairs with the tweezer and pulled.

"Ow! Fuck Luke to I said it wouldn't hurt." Mia whined but Luke just laughed.

Almost an hour later Mia stood in the bathroom glancing at herself in the mirror. Her eyebrows although slightly red around the edges where now a lot thinner and feminine. Paired with her eyeliner and freshly shaved face she was already beginning to look a lot more like a women.

"So you like it?" Luke asked from his spot against the door frame.

"I do."

"I told you you'd look a lot better once I fixed you up." He said smugly.

"Shut up Luke." But she was smiling

I think I've fell in love with writing this book again. I won't make you wait 4months for an update again!