I woke up,feeling a little weak. I felt a little better after telling Reece what I had been going through. Although, a part of me was afraid that he would see me differently and run away from me. I sat up on my bed and saw a note by me pillow.
Dear Ava,
I just went to go grab some things for your mum,from the store, down the road.I'd be right back.Get dressed.I’ll text you when I finish from the store.The offer still stands btw ;).
Reece.
I smiled and quickly ran to the bathroom.While I was curling my hair, I heard a beep from my phone.Thinking it was Reece,I opened the message but the curling iron fell from my hand when I saw the picture in front of me.It was a picture from my past.When I had the allergic reaction to the fish.My eyes were red and teary,my face was red and puffy.Someone used it as a meme which had seven hundred views already. I opened the comments and tears clouded my eyes as I read them:
“Who is this?"
“LMAO,is this even a human being?"
“Yishh and I thought I was ugly”
“She looks like a giant Meatball"
“She's really fishy;)”
“She looks like a swollen cow"
“She looks like the internal organ of a hippopotamus”
“She looks like three cows put together"
“How can someone be this ugly? No offence”.
“The fish is probably terrified by just looking at her face”.
“Poor fish,He had to look at such-”
I grabbed the hot curling iron,not caring about the pain as it fried my skin.I needed to feel it. I needed to drown myself in the pain.I screamed as tears ran down my cheeks.The smell of burning skin filled my nostrils.I started dragging the iron down my arm, when a knock on my room door interrupted me.I was immediately brought back to reality and that's when I felt the intensity of the pain. I quickly unplugged the iron and sprayed the air freshener to get rid of the smell of burnt skin.
“I'm coming” I shouted to the person and ran to the bathroom. I put my hand under the running faucet in order to try to reduce the pain but it only made it worse. I changed into an oversized long-sleeved sweater and opened the door to see Reece standing there. I put my still throbbing you hands behind my back.
“Ava, I have been waiting downstairs for you for like twenty minutes now.Didn’t you see my texts?”He said and I shook my head. I was too busy roasting my meaty flesh to look at his messages.
“Can I come in?”before I could finish shaking my head, He gently pushed me aside as his face scrunched up. “What's that smell?”he looked around the room and then looked at me.
“What smell?”I asked.
“Smells like something’s burning"
“It's probably the smell of my curling iron while I was straightening my hair." He nodded ,still looking inconvinced. His eyes focused on my hands that were still behind and I hid them further.
“Why are your hands behind you?” he asked.
“Umm,I was a little cold” I said and he just looked at me.
“Anyway,I came to call you down for lunch,I hope you're ready to eat, cause you will eat”.He said looking straight into my eyes and then he walked away.
When he left the room, I realeased the deep breath that I didn't even know I was holding and then glanced at myself a second time and left the room but not before grabbing my hand gloves.
“Ava Honey we've been waiting for you”.My mom said “You take too much time to get ready.What do you do in there?!”
“Mom! I was just curling my hair".I said and sat down opposite Reece.My Mom and Reece’s plates were already full. I was about to serve myself jusy salad when Reece spoke up.
“Let me help you”he said getting up.
“I can do it by myself” I said but he still collected the plate and serving spoon from me and begun dishing.He put like 3 spoons of rice, A huge piece of chicken,5 slices of plantain ,a spoon of salad, a spoon full of chopped apples and roasted corn.My mouth hung open.
“Reece,I can't finish that”I whined but he still continued,ignoring me.Once he was finally done,he placed the mountain of food in front of me and handed me a fork.
“Bon Appetit”He said looking at me and my mom giggled. I placed my phone on the table and picked up a piece of apple.Thankfully, it was my left hand that was scarred and not my right, so I hid that one under the table.I took a bite out of the apple so that Reece could stop watching me but it didn't work. I tried to drop The apple but he shook his head.I was stuck.My phone dinged and I used that as an opportunity to drop the apple.I checked the phone and saw that there were more comments on the picture. Mean ones.I looked up at Reece to see that he was now staring at me with a confused look. I dropped the phone but more notifications popped up.I was about to pick it up again when Reece spoke.
“Eat..Ava"He said and I left it and picked the apple again. He turned his attention back to my mum who was asking him some questions.The sound of notifications popping up on my phone filled the room. I knew Reece could definitely hear them ,but he chose to ignore. I used that opportunity to stand up. I couldn't take it anymore.And I definitely didn't want to break down in front of them. I headed for my room but before I could finish getting around the table, a hand held my hand to stop me. I looked down at Reece as tears gathered in my eyes. His expression changed from a confused one to a softer one then an angry one.He was about to turn my hand so I quickly yanked it out of his and ran upstairs.
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