She looked at her reflection on the mirror. She's still the same girl, the girl she made herself to be. She's still the doll she constructed. Still has those big blue eyes, those long eyelashes, rosy cheeks and pinkish lips. Lips that always curved a smile, as if she's not tired of smiling. She always smiles no matter what happens.
She seems like an angel.
She is an angel and yet is cursed to have no wings. Or rather, an angel with fake crippled wings.
She remembers when she decided to change her name to Hera from Herachel. Remembers herself saying that the girl her family despises is now gone, and Hera came to life. Recalls everything even though she wanted to forget. She wanted everyone to forget about Herachel; the broken girl. She wanted to forget as if Herachel was not a part of her because she knew that Herachel will never be accepted.
No one has ever accepted Her.
Herachel is the broken girl, an orphan and weakling. Herachel is everything she's not. And now she's strong, she is fighting, kind and loves to please everyone.
Or rather she's perfect in pretending to be.
Until someone came to Herachel's life, not Hera's.
He found her when she was lost. He found Herachel hiding under the table, whispering that none of it ever happened and everything is but a dream. He found the broken girl out of the fake one. He was able to find Herachel when she couldn't.
He knocked her senses away and told her, "Everything's real. You're not dreaming! Stop pretending to be someone you're not." She's lost. Herachel knew for a fact that she's pretending but didn't know that someone will eventually wake her up, like an alarm to wake the broken girl.
I asked him how he ended up knowing my deep secret but the answer she got is a smile. Then it hit her, he found out because of her smile. She smiled again, a real one. He can see right through her like a clear glass.
No one has ever found her.
But he has.
No one has ever accepted her.
He smiled and murmured, "I just did."
I smiled.
"What's your name?" he asked.
Before she forgot, she answered, "Herachel."
Shefound now the place where she belongs and it's in him.
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