The Beauty Within
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  • Reads 426
  • Votes 25
  • Parts 2
  • Time 22m
Ongoing, First published Jul 03, 2016
Mature
Everyone always desires to have the look and beauty of a model, everyone strives to look like those on magazines. Everyone believes that having these beauty will give you a good life, a life with problems. 

However, it's not the same with our girl lead; Aphrodite Wilson. Born with the desirable genes, you'd think she would have the time of her life and loved by everyone. But Aphrodite's desirable genes haunts her. Due to her beauty she has no one she can call a friend. Those who seem close to her will always end up hating her; jealousy. 

Having a younger sister who won't speak to her because she will always be the 'ugly' sister  and the boys she end up having a crush on will date her just to get close to her beautiful older sister. 

However in her second year of secondary school, a transfer student from America named Vincent Maddox treated her differently from others; he was kind to her and he was the first friend she ever made. She trusted him until Aphrodite over hears Vincent talking to others. "I don't like her. I hang around with her because I pity her." Hearing this, Aphrodite trusted no one.  

She never went back to school, and begged her mother to allow her to transfer into a different school; a girls school. Not wanting the same things to repeat in her new school, Aphrodite changed. She chopped off her long, luxurious brown hair. She changed the way she spoke. She changed the way she acted in order not to be hated once again. 

Her change in character worked; she made a lot of new friends in her new school and happily passed the rest of Secondary school then again through college. But when it came to university, she met Vincent once again. Aphrodite worse nightmare came back to life along with her feelings for the first friend she "trusted".
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