ZeroToHeroInNoTime
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- Posted: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 23:59:27 +0000
ℓąτєℓү I've been ℓσşιηԍ şℓєєρ
∂яєąмιηԍ about the τɦιηԍş that we ςσuℓ∂ be
But вąвү, I've been ρяąүιη' ɦąя∂
Said ησ мσяє counting ∂σℓℓąяş, we'll be ςσuητιηԍ şτąяş
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An accident. A single accident was all it had taken to turn Shannon Hartwood from the heights of popularity, the crème de la crème, to the lowest on the totem pole. A single night had ruined her.
Shannon used to think that God had favorites, that he looked down upon the world and selected a few people to gift everything to. She thought she had been one of those people, and who could blame her? She had been gifted since birth with wealth, brains, and beauty. Men ogled and desired her, other women wanted to be her, and any adult wished that there child was as brilliant as her. Was it any wonder that she had climbed to the top of the social hierarchy at school? Her grades were excellent, her beauty unparalleled, and people flocked to her if only they could consider themselves an acquaintance of hers. Princess would have been putting it mildly; she was a Queen among her peers.
Well, she used to be.
Who would have known that she would have found herself in an accident? The other car had come out of nowhere. Sure, she had been in a hurry and going a little faster than what was allowed and couldn't be bothered to slow for a stop sign, but who would have known that a truck would pull out at the last second? It had been dark, she hadn't seen him. In a matter of minutes, her beautiful little convertible had been twisted all out of shape, metal curved and pointed all around her, slicing her to bits. That had been bad enough, but the whole thing had caught fire too, she remembered the feel of her own flesh burning, the excruciating pain. Pedestrians and the fire department had been able to pull her out before her car had killed her. She wasn't sure if that made her lucky or not.
That accident had changed her, more than just physically though that had been the worst. She used to be beautiful, her tan skin clear and blemish free. But now, now there were scars and burns everywhere. The skin on her knees had been sliced to bits, having been crushed into the metal. The bones had broken and healed fine, but the skin had been harder to put back together. The front of her torso had been left mostly untouched, but her sides and back hosted the remnants of burns and cuts were the car frame had either impaled her or the fire had licked her skin. The worst there was a small spot on her right hip, where the metal of the belt buckle had heated and had felt like a brand. Similar marks covered her arms. Again, her neck had escaped unscathed, but her face... Her face had been the worst. No burns, luckily, but a large ragged scar ran across each side of her face, one going down from her forehead. Another slicing up from her chin and another still from her right eye to ear.
She was mutilated, a monster.
Most of the marks could be covered up with clothes, thankfully, though she mourned the loss of wearing a bikini ever again. But her face was not so easy to hide. She had thought, when she had returned that first day after a month in the hospital., that maybe it would not be so bad. Sure, she wasn't pretty anymore and nobody had visited her in the hospital, but maybe they'd think of her new marks as battle scars. They'd pity her and tell her what an awful accident she had been through and how sorry they felt for her. That wasn't how it had gone. A new queen had stepped up to take Shannon's place while she had been gone and all her old friends had taken one look at her face and cringed. The men who had once gazed longingly had a similar reaction or something along the lines of 'Damn!'. Her boyfriend had broken up with her that same day after informing her that he had been cheating with the new queen while she had been in the hospital.
That had been two months ago. Now, she sat at the edge of the cafeteria, in a corner with a table to herself. She used to dress in the most cutting edge of fashion, clothes that showcased her perfect body. Now, it was skinny jeans, slouched boots and a sweater with a hood large enough that it could drape down and cover her face as long as she kept her head down. She picked at her lunch, an excellent bento box her mother's new personal chef had put together, as she gazed out across the rest of the student body. Once, she had stood at the top, the best of them, and now here she was, the outcast. Nobody would come sit with her, hell they did there best not to so much as look at them and she couldn't blame them. She was a freak. With a sigh, she picked the delicate piece of sashimi and shoved it in her mouth, wishing that time would just pass faster so that she could go home and lock herself in her room where nobody could bother her and she could sulk in peace.
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