Lovely [The Unedited Version]

Chapter 3

The black of Lovely’s school uniform only served to make her look even paler than she already was. Lovely sighed and stared at the reflection on the mirror in front of her. That reflection was not Lovely’s- it was some human’s.

Lovely’s ‘father’ strode into the room and looked her up and down. His black eyes focused on her purple ones.

“No, no, no. This won’t do.” He produced a tiny case from his pocket, “Put these in your eyes.”

“No.” said Lovely crossing her arms.

He sighed, “You won’t look human without these in.”

“What are they?”

“Contacts. They will make your eyes look red.”

“Why?”

“Because you need to look human.”

“I already don’t.”

“You look albino now, but if any one sees that your eyes are purple then you wont.”

Hesitantly, Lovely plucked the tiny contact from its case. It felt slimy and began to shrivel the minute she touched it. With a disgusted noise Lovely replaced it.

“I have no intention of putting those in my eyes.”

“Must I do it for you?”

“If you can even-“ Lovely stopped mid-sentence, remembering what the experimentalist had told her before she left the institution. Lovely quickly muttered an accent and placed the contacts in her eyes.

“Perfect,” said her ‘father’, “Now lets get down to the car.”

Lovely followed her ‘father’ down to the waiting car: it was a black BMW with not a speck of dirt adorning its doors.

“Sit here.” He said gesturing to the vacant passenger seat.

Lovely did as she was told, all the time wondering how safe the human machine really was. Her ‘father’ started the engine and began telling Lovely what everything did. Lovely ignored him and looked out the window at the houses and trees speeding past them.

“So, lets review your story.” When lovely didn’t respond he repeated his question again, more loudly.

Lovely looked over and gave him her most withering stare. “My name is Elizabeth Sterling. I’m a foreign exchange student from Germany,” Lovely paused fro a small smile: Germany of all places, “ I was born in 1998. I am 14 years old and will turn 15 in on August 27.”

“Good, but you forgot something: you're an award winning swimmer.”

“Yes- to disguise my wings.”

“See that you remember that.”

They pulled into the school’s parking lot and Lovely got out of the car. Her ‘father’ leaned out of the window for one last parting phrase.

“Have a good first day of school… Elizabeth.” He rolled up the window and drove away.

Lovely watched until the car turned the corner to the highway and then joined the thickening flow of students pressing to get into the school. Lovely paid no attention to those around her until someone shoved past her causing Lovely to fall.

“That was rude, boy.”

The boy sniggered and looked down at Lovely. “You know what else is rude?” he asked, “This, but I don’t give a fuck.”

Lovely pushed herself off the ground, unfolded her wings and-

“Elizabeth? Elizabeth, are you listening?”

Lovely jerked her head up from the desk where she had been sleeping. “I am.”

“Hum,” said the teacher, ”Then could you kindly tell us the answers for page 45 of your homework.”

Lovely glanced at the page in question; she had not touched her homework. “One is zero, then the other two are both three.”

“Correct.”  Said the teacher and continued the lesson.

Lovely flipped to the pack of her calculus textbook and sighed, all the problems were simple- too simple for her. Lovely sighed again and turned again to her notebook in which she was drawing; drawing herself the way she truly was. Her white wings burst from her back and spread over the entirety of the page and there was a vengeful look in her eyes.

Something poked her arm and Lovely looked up to see the dark-skinned girl besides her smiling.

“That,” she said pointing at Lovely’s drawing, “Is amazing.”

Lovely nodded and the girl returned to studying the textbook. Lovely couldn’t quite recall the girl’s name. It was something like Mercy.

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This is the shortest chaper yet and I'm sorry about that! Any how the picture on the side is of Lovely. It's from Nastya on Tumblr and you guys should take a look at some of her other works on there as well. Thats all! Tnaks for reading, commenting and voting!!!!!!!