Lies She Told

Sat, 12/13/2014 - 00:09 -- zoomh3x

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The bell rings loud and clear
It is recess
All the third graders run out to the playground
To the monkey bars and swings
Happy, cheerful, toothless smiles
But something is wrong
In the background, a girl with a long braid running down her back
Sits alone
That night, her mother will ask her
"How was your day?"
"Great," she will say
"I played on the monkey bars all recess long."
The first lie she ever told.

Flash forward seventh grade
Walking down the hall of her middle school
The same long braid running down her back
She hears him call out the meanest words
"Hey fatty" "Ugly" "Why do you walk like that"
Head down, she pretends not to hear him
Ignores him even though she hears every syllable he says
"How was your day?" her mother asks at dinner
"Perfect"

Senior year
Hair falling out in clumps
With memories burned into her mind 
Like the thin red lines she has drawn down her wrist
They tell her time will heal all her wounds
But they don't know her watch shattered years ago
She hasn't eaten in three days
Tying her shoelaces to go on an hour long run
Because maybe after that, she will be perfect
Everyone around her still happy with fake lipgloss smiles
But she still lies
Remembers the first lie she ever told
"How was your day?" her mother asks again
"Fine" 
But her mother is finally starting to see

She pushes away from the dinner table
Goes to the bathroom and looks in the mirror
And the face that she sees staring back at her
Is me 

Comments

serenaelizabeth1

This touched me.  Beautiful.  Sad.  Thank you.<3

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