Beauty Always Has A Price {#wattys2016}

The Agreement

"Come on Harley! Just this once." Peyton says to me. I push my glasses further to my face, and let out a huge, terrible sigh. "Peyton. I never skipped school, and I'm never going to. Just drop it. Now, ill see you later. I can't be late."

"You can never be late." She says as I turn around.

I quickly twist around to look at her, and nearly trip on my own heel. But I ignore it. "Well I'm sorry that I'm the only one here who takes their education seriously!".

And with that I walk off, with instant regret. Peyton is my best friend. I didn't mean to hurt her, but she was pushing her luck. I know, I know, that's a dumb excuse, but I couldn't help it. God, I need to get to class! I hurry towards my math class door, and as I walk in, people are just staring at me. I speed walk towards my seat in the back of the class. And as I'm walking, Zola just had to trip me. I fall face first on the ground, causing my books to drop, and my glasses to shatter. "Miss Winifred! Good god, are you heartless! Come with me Harley. We'll call your mother." Mrs. Gino says. Aaron hurries over to me, and helps me gather my things. "Are you okay?" He says, but I don't respond. I just lay there, emotionless. But my mood quickly escalates when I stood up, and looked at Ashton who was laughing until his heart was content. That ticked me off. "Ashton, you ass! You heartless turd!". After that, everyone in the class was laughing. I snatched my books from Aaron, and left to the office with my math teacher, Mrs. Gino.

After I call my mom and explain to her what happened, she is on her way to pick me up and take me to the doctor. With Every small injury, she insists on taking a trip to the doctor's. But I respect that. Worried about her child. There's no harm in that. It can just get a little annoying when you're a clumsy nerd as me.

After the trip to the doctor's, in which I learned that nothing is wrong, we went home, and mom started on cooking lunch. I went straight to my room to gather clothes for a hot bath. I grab clothes, a towel, a hair tie, and my favorite book, Twilight. I hop in the bath and start reading. As I'm reading, my phone starts playing music. I mark my page, and reach over for my phone which was like two feet away from the bathtub. I grab it then answer it, trying hard not to drop it in the tub. "Hello?" I say.

"Harley are you okay?!"

"Oh, hey Peyton. Uh, yeah. I'm fine. My glasses broke, that's all."

"What do you mean, 'that's all.' ?!? You can't let this go!"

"It's fine Peyton. I'm okay."

"Nope!! Get over here. To my house."

"Ugh! Why???!"

"Because Harley! Sorry to say, but you're nerdy as hell. And if you want people to treat you with way more respect, then what you need, is a makeover."

I didn't want to agree, but she had a great point. And it benefits the both of us. She gets to do the makeover her way, and I get a way better lifestyle.

"Alright Peyton. I'm in! Let's do this!"

"Oh yeah! Now we're talking!

This better be worth it.

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