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Society Hierarchy by Ferrari Valentine

I picked up my pace as I left trails of footsteps engraved on the thick layer of white sand. The shore is almost empty as it's already 1 am in the midnight. It was a full moon. The moon illuminated the beach as its reflection is written on the water.

I felt a wave of breeze hit my body as my hair which hangs on my shoulder tried to fly with it. I hugged myself, feeling a lot colder than ever.

All my life I've never felt so hidden in the pit of darkness. I grew up with the most amazing people I had ever met in my life. I was never bullied. I was never alone. Yet I was never contented.

I noticed a figure in the corner of my eye, and turned to look at it. "Thinking roughly, are we?" Mike, my photographer, said as he took a few steps towards me. This man never changes himself. In fact, he never cared about his appearance.

"Sometimes I wish I was boy," I chuckled. "It seems so easy for you guys to fit in."

He flung an arm around my shoulder and sighed a bit. "Shelby with those insecure remarks, again. Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?" he questions.

I stared at his face, before answering his question. "Being a police woman was never an easy job, but we were always lowly paid. But look where I am now, money chases me, yet I don't chase money," I told him. "All those surgical operations paid off. All I have to do, was pose in front of the camera seductively. And boom, there's money. I fit in, people likes me for being like this."

"By being fake?" I arch a brow. "No offense, but that's how I see it." He raises his hands in surrender.

"Being unique doesn't make you stand out nowadays. Being unique is a curse, people humiliate you for that. Sometimes you stand out because people talk about how funny, how disgusting you are for not fitting into society's standards," I sighed. "The society has its own hierarchy, that people would die to belong in the top; the what I called people-who-has-so-many-likers-and-followers-because-they-look-like-gods."

Therewas a moment of silence after my novelty speech—well, at least for Mike. "Well,you are like everyone else. You fit in, but are you happy?"Msڝd