chance to change (girlxgirl)

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School was horrible, as always.

"Oh, Marina!" My mother gasped in horror upon seeing me with a huge blooming black eye. "Dear, what happened?" She rushed over to me.

Earlier today, can't remember exactly when, but I might've gotten in a bit of a situation involving another girl. I might've muttered something under my breath, probably about her annoying loudness and she might've punched me in eye and blamed it on a simple mistake.

"It's fine, Mom. Thanks for caring though." I tried to move away from her, desperate to talk to Connie because- well, is it a crime to want to get to know someone?

"Marina, you always try to avoid talking to me! Especially right now, why are you in such a rush to get upstairs?" My mom sighed, placing her hands on her hips.

"It's nothing, I just have to do some very, very, VERY important homework to do." A lie, as much as I hated doing such to my mother. She furrowed her eyebrows.

"Fine, but we are going to discuss this at dinner and you are going to put some ice on that bruise!" I sighed as she took one out of the freezer and put it in my hand.

"Okay okay, thanks mom, bye!" I quickly rushed out as I ran upstairs and went into my room. The moment the door closed, I feel onto my bed and opened the messenger app.

Sleepless changed her name to conniee!

mar1na: hey!

mar1na: also cute new name

I blushed in embarrassment. 'Cute?'

conniee!: Aw, thanks!

conniee!: Good to see you Marina (oWo)

mar1na: no problem

conniee!: How was your day at school?

mar1na: well, I got a black eye

conniee!: A black eye?!?

conniee!: After a day or two of applying cold packs, try gently applying warm but not hot compresses to your black eye. This will increase blood flow to the area to facilitate healing, it should make the black eye go away faster.

mar1na: w o a h

mar1na: I can now see why you put medical school as one of your interests

conniee!: OOF

conniee!: Sorry, haha! I'm a huge health nerd, as you probably can tell.

mar1na: don't worry, that doesn't make me like you any less

mar1na: I dont have any plans for the future tbh

conniee!: I'm sure you'll figure something out eventually :)

mar1na: thanks for the confidence boost lol

conniee!: I'm a professional confidence booster, I'm willing to give you as much support possible

mar1na: thanks (:

conniee!: By the way, is it okay if I show you a picture of myself?

mar1na: sure

Almost immediately, Connie shared a photo and oh my god she's amazing.

Connie had light brown hair tied up into a short messy pointy tail and big dark brown eyes. She stood with a white tank top on with a tired smile on her face. In short, she was beautiful.

mar1na: you look nihoce

mar1na: nice*!!

conniee!: Aw thanks :) I thought it'd be fine to share a pic to make myself seem less like some weird stranger obsessed with health.

mar1na: ??? 'weird'

mar1na: OH I should probably share a picture of myself too

conniee!: Only if you want to!

I frowned a little and looked up to the mirror in front of my bed and I went over to it. My face screwed up while I searched for things to like. At best, I was average. There were visible bags under my eyes, and I had one too many freckles.

I sighed, and attempted to relax my face. I stared for a minute without doing anything before making an effort to smile. The smile fell quicker than it came. Nonetheless, I grabbed my phone and snapped maybe eight photos of myself standing in front of the mirror. It took maybe another three minutes before I chose the best looking one and pressed send.

mar1na: this black eye really makes me look bad

conniee!: ??? 'bad' ???

conniee!: I think you look great!

mar1na: thanks :)

conniee!: no problem!

conniee!: mind if we put this chat on pause for a few minutes? I'm kind of busy right now >_<

mar1na: sure, no problem

mar1na: see you in bit!

conniee!: Cya!

I smiled, barley noticing once again that my cheeks were warm.