Chapter 8 Beauty Standard

• Beauty's fingers crushed into a fist. She was so angry and annoyed, uncontrollably she snapped out loud.
• “I'm fat! Yeah, I know and ugly too. That I am very aware of! Find something else to hurt me with Kathy because I am not hurt with those words anymore. Go on, try something else! Kathy you are so perfect, and I am not not,that's outdated, torture me with something else”. Beauty said that boldly, but her emotional expressions were drastically different, her legs were visibly trembling, and her face flooded with tears, hands shaking nervously.
• Kathy noticed. She sighed deeply, with a soft chuckle. “You're crying like a baby again? Thought you would grow up. Well, I am satisfied with the result, jealous fatty, next time look before stepping on my toes”. She snapped with a warning finger.
• “You're irritating Kathy, you think bullying is so fun? What a childish bitch you are! She is healthy, not fat, maybe you should eat more, skinny bitch” Jessie snapped angrily.
• Kathy gives no damn, chuckles out loud. “Well I am the beauty standard honey, it's a hard pill to swallow”. She turned to her crew.
• “Let's go everyone, next time avoid me Fatty”. She warned and left with an elegant walk as though she were in the runaways.
• The press crew and journalists who longed for her interview, followed her like puppies.
• Beauty stood there not knowing what else to do, she couldn't even raise her face to look at anyone in their eyes. Not even Bruno, he heard everything quite alright.
• “I am such a…mess”. She murmured and walked slowly heading to the restroom, Jessie followed her immediately.
• As soon as she got to the restroom, she slammed the door, crying her heart out.
• “Open the door Beauty”. Jessie said, knocking on the room door.
• “You should stop calling me that!” She snapped in tears.
• “But it's your name….” Jessie said softly.
• “I hate it…it's just the opposite of who I am”. Beauty yelled back.
• Jessie felt that hard. “Stop being such a baby, do you know how you sound? You sound like a heartbroken toddler! You are beautiful and your name suits you and now can you at least let me in please”. Jessie replied.
• Beauty hesitated, she washed her face and put on a strong look. She is used to this, why must she act like a heartbroken toddler like Jessie said? “Beauty please, open the door”. Beauty hesitated again but eventually opened the door slowly. “Don't start with your sermons, I am not crying because of what she said. I was just…crying because….”
• Jessie hugged her without hearing her out first, and pecked her cheek. “I am proud of your Beauty. If I were in your shoes, I would definitely be in police custody right now, charged for murder”. Jessie snapped with a serious look that gave Beauty no doubt. She would do it!
• “Kathy is an asshole, don't let her words get to you, a freaky bitch, all she does is to look good, and she is not even that good-looking..”
• Jessie added.
• Beauty raised a brow at her with an eye squinting.
• What a lie!
• “Alright… yeah…you got me… She may be good-looking but …she has issues, you are more beautiful than her. She's so jealous, and I feel like hitting her right in the face sometimes". Kathy said, her fist clenched.
• "Well, with that body and the visual she got, she's perfect, her character doesn't count, it's a pretty privilege, that's all”. Beauty replied.
• “Nobody's perfect, tell her something like, your tummy is so flat, your nose … You're so…ugh”. She groaned and sighed.
• “I guess you're right Beauty, she's definitely perfect in the world's beauty standard, a perfect figure, but I won't tolerate her rudeness towards you. You didn't create yourself Beauty, you eat very less than most of us, who are models. I want you to believe in yourself, you're really a Beauty, it's not just a name, it's who you are. Please see yourself like I see you, ". Jessie said and hugged her with a smile.
• They both released from the hug but still held each other's hands. “You are beginning to sound like my mother, Jessie”. Beauty teased, chuckling lightly.
• "Well, little one, you can call me mother, as a matter of fact”. She replied with her chin up.
• Beauty spanked her hard on the bum.
• "Ouch!!'She laughed out loud. They both laughed, then hugged again.
• “Thanks for being a friend, Jessie". Beauty whispered.
• “Come on let's go back to the office. I am sure you have work to do before that human worm decides to get on our nerves again”.
• Beauty chuckled and nodded. They walked back to our different departments.
• Even though Jessie was trying so hard for me, as a good friend she is, sometimes she acts differently and those times are my hardest times, Beauty thought inwardly.
• She got to her desk, sat down, with a deep sigh. After a minute of a silent meditation. She pulled out the cabinet, carried out some folders, and placed them on the table. Going through them, she found the particular documents. She had been searching for it, so she returned the folders, and picked up the document heading to the capture room. She had to submit the hard copy feedback reports from the customers on the company’s fashion magazines. She stopped in the photo house.
• Mr. Bruno was there with his assistant and other models. Beauty drew a deep breath and walked to Jessie.
• She was standing near Mr. Bruno!
• How lucky! I am so jealous! How can she stay that close without freaking out?
• Beauty shook off all the wild thoughts in her mind and walked to them.
• “What's the theme?”
• Bruno asked Kathy. "Seduction,"Kathy said with a seductive tone.
• “Se… what?” Beauty snapped in her mind.
• Kathy was the model for this theme's photoshoot, her body goals hit differently, also she's a picture perfect, the cameras love her, like they're kissing her with their flashes. Mr. Bruno stepped back from her and turned. As soon Beauty saw him approaching, she clenched her fists tightly, her heart racing.
• “Why is he coming over to my side!”
• She screamed inside.