From Your Sunflower

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Always too fat.
Too nice.
Too ugly.
Too positive.
Too nerdy...

These were the words which haunted Elliana every day of her life. They strangled her to the very core until she couldn't breathe, and until she was breathless with trying to drown them out, but failing to.

That was all Elliana knew.

But, that doesn't mean that she didn't want to--didn't want to breathe, I mean. She wanted to breathe; she wanted to eat without worrying constantly, about her number of calorie intakes; she wanted to stop staring herself down, or her reflection at least, any time she looked into a mirror; she wanted to stop obsessing over why she, according to her, of all people was so cursed with being ugly.

She wanted to do so many things she thought she couldn't.

But, most of all? She wanted to be pretty.

She wanted to bloom into the prettiest flower she could be. And, for her petals to be perfectly flawless hair, sleek and smooth, rather than the messy, curly nest she believed she was burdened with.

And yet...
That was before Elliana did something she thought never could have.

Because, well, that was before she came to know him. That was way before she wanted to change her life, to let go of her insecurities, to be pretty in her own way rather than through any other meamns...

That was before she learnt, what true friends are, what they aren't...

You see, that was before she became her own 'sunflower', as well as every one else's.

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