Renée was sixteen when she decided to go to a party for the first time ever. Everything was set. Chloé and Renée had bought dresses online and she was going to come over to her house to get ready together.
"Your makeup looks on point, especially the highlighter, Renée! Now, go, get into the dress, we're already late" she said handing her the dress.
Renée's dress was an off-the-shoulder, knee-length black dress, with sequins on the sleeves. She was very excited to try it on, it was the first time she was going to wear a dress. Just when she slipped it on, it was tight. Too tight. She practically had to hold her breathe in, afraid it could tear any moment. She turned around to look at the full-length mirror.
"You look horrible. The dress rounds off your stomach like a balloon, and your arms they look like huge flabby sausages. You need to control on what you eat, fatty" Ciara mocked.
Renée realized she was growing fat, that too at all the wrong places.
She didn't go to the party.
A few months later, she was kicked out of the cheer-leading group, and her friendship with Chloé had started to strain.
French girls were known for their slim figure, was she a disgrace even to her country?
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One Balloon Away
Fiksi RemajaJust when eighteen-year-old Renée Martin is about to commit suicide, an unexpected note meant for someone else leads her to the city she has always dreaded, Paris. Join her on this disastrous journey as she struggles with self-esteem, anxiety and th...
