Song: Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls
"Mom, I can't go!" I screamed shoving my face into my pillow as she stood at my bedroom door.
"Why not, honey?"
"I can't believe you're asking that question." I shook my head, standing up abruptly. I walked over to where she stood and grabbed her arm. I took her to the big mirror that hung on my wall and pointed at my face. "That's why!" I exclaimed.
"You're beautiful," she lied, and as I looked into her eyes, I could see the dishonesty.
"I was beautiful. Now I'm just a scarface Frankenstein look a like."
"Don't say that about yourself," she reprimanded.
"Everybody knows it's true, I'm better off with the world not seeing me," I said sadly.
"No you're not! Now get in the shower and get ready for school!"
"I can't mom, they don't understand. They'll stare and laugh at me."
"Fine! Do what you want. But when you're thirty without a job and no place to live don't come knocking on my door." She left the room, and I sighed as I say back down on the bed.
Grabbing my phone, I felt my heart ache as I looked at the picture of the happy couple that was the screensaver. A handsome guy and a beautiful girl, who's face had yet to me ruined with burn scars.
That girl was me, and that guy was my boyfriend, or rather ex-boyfriend. I didn't know what we were, he'd stopped talking to me when the bandages had come off and he'd seen how bad my face was.
I'm still the same person.
I sent him the text, but I knew it was no use, he was too shallow to get past my horrific looking face. In fit of anger, I chucked my phone at the wall, watching as the pieces scattered all across the floor. Everything in my life was broken, and I thought of all people he'd be the one to understand.
But he didn't, nobody understood what it was like to go from being the pretty and popular girl to the girl who was to afraid to leave her bedroom because she didn't want to scare people with her face.
It just wasn't fair! Nothing was fair!
