that pretty girl

She had the life everybody wanted: Things always went her way; she had plenty of friends - beyond what she could ask for; she had a pleasant personality; people liked her; she did well in school; she never got in trouble; so on, so on the list goes. But life was like that for the beautiful, anyway. You were either born lucky or not. Life's like that.

She was one who was born lucky, being born beautiful. In fact, she was very very lucky, because she was wildlybeyondimagination gorgeous. It was natural that people often swooned in covet at that sight of her. They'd often cry, oh! how fortunate are you to be born so pretty, and oh! how fortunate are you to be born so pretty, then spend the next few seconds staring at her face and lament how damned they were to be been born ever so hideous: "Look at my nose! it's so flat and ugly; if only I had yours... if only..." except, it wasn't actually the nose that they cared about. And even if people never used her to criticize themselves, she'd still receive compliments aplenty; The words "stunning", "gorgeous", "pretty", "hot", "good-looking", "striking", "attractive", "exquisite" and other broadly synonymous adjectives were so often pinned and pasted to her name that it was hard to think of her as anything else.

But that was the problem, you see. Nobody thought of her as anything else. Nobody could, of course, because they had always busied themselves with admiring her immaculate glory. She was Beautiful, the perfect being, and everybody wanted to know her. But nobody wanted to know her. People simply glazed over her picture-worthy, Darly'd smiles and never really noticed that it was pained - that she was silently calling, pining, begging to be known as what she really was - an identity of her own, a feeling self - and not merely what she seemed to be. But... but you know what yourself. You know.

But you don't know. This was her true fate, unknown to the gazing eye, to be forever trapped behind that face. She could not escape it. She had the life everybody else wanted.