Sixteen, wow.
I remember I used to have these pink overalls, and a brooch with my name on it.
I remember I used to have a white pony, named Snowy and I once barfed on her, I think I drank Vitagen too fast and got choked or something. I remember Daddy taught me how to tie a shoelace and used my red ribboned dress as an example, taught me how to draw a seahorse, and took a goofy picture with me when I was a mere one years old. Okay, maybe not but I do have the picture, my face is squashed, literally on his cheek.
I remember Mummy got me these plastic high heels when I was five and I wore it with my pink flowered shirt. I remember the haircuts she used to give me which resulted in short fringe and me crying, saying that, "I look ugly now Mummy." when I was six. I remember her teaching me how to bake scones, teaching me how to shade a sunflower so it won't look, 'fake', and tell me the amount of water to put in the rice cook so that I won't make it too soggy and risk it burning the pot, due to lack of water.
I remember JoelLee throwing a plasticine at the top of the ceiling and it not coming down when I was four, and placing a fake cockroach outside the parents' room door to find daddy whacking the ground with a rolled up newspaper when he got back from prayer meeting. I remember crying when you left for Aussie and crying now, when I don't hear from you after my 20 cents text doesn't get replied after a while on a suck day.
I remember Sandra and her shiny straight hair I used to love when I was eleven. I remember the times we used to play princesses and imitate the Parent Trap with our glow torches, stepping on the leather cushions when I was nine, and she was five. I see how she's wearing clothes I am secretly goingtostealfromhercupboard one day, and remember how she used to wear a bib saying 'I am a little monster' while eating her baby food.
Sloo, I remember the swimming pool when we were eight, and the pool now.
Rachel and Germaine, I remember the first time we were in Sunday School, and how now we're trying to escape from YF committee meetings on Sunday.
Anderson, I remember being really intimidated by you, "PushUps! SitUps! Squats!" and now I get the most random messages from you, telling me about how birds attack you and nurses scold you because you fainted.
I remember how you used to be, the other twin in the car that tagged JoelLee along when you went to Youth, and how you're my bestie now :p
I remember being slightly overwhelmed by you guys and now how we coordinate LittleMissTees and camwhore.
I remember how I first saw you in clinic with your swirly colourful bag and just looked. And how now, we share butterfree pretzels and walk aimlessly around having fun doing, nothing.
How I used to want to wear high heels, but am now comfortable wearing flats because I know heels aren't directly, me. Don't get me wrong, I do feel I need to at times, feel intimidated over the top but I guess now I know having fun doesn't require having to be like, that.
I remember hating plastic tubes, white walls and the smell of medicine, the hospital in general when I visited Mummy when she had Sandra at four. I remember 2006.
And the list goes on and on, I'd be here forever if I were to finish it.
The point is now, I'm sixteen. Now Daddy doesn't expect me to text him often enough to know what I'm doing when I go out. Now I'm unofficially legal to drive a manual car. Now, I wear skirts not because they're mini, but because they're so much easier to put on the jeans. Now, I carry a bright pink bag not because Paris does it and gets attention, but because somehow it boosts my serotonin level.
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Belle has it 'all'. Family, friends, enough text messages on her birthday. She isn't an XS despite wanting to be. She isn't a size O, nor does she have the high enough cheekbones, sharp face and seemingly seeming double eyelids. She isn't happy with the scale number, despite not knowing it. Her list goes on. But all things considered she as her Mummy says, 'has it pretty good'. She can still see, smell, touch and feel objects, as much as she doesn't want to feel some because too close for comfort is not a good thing. Having too wide a surface area, minimizes the space for other, smaller things. But she knows I guess, she's okay.
She has her ups, she has her downs. The ups are bliss, and if she could, she'd freeze the time, make everything stand still so that the chances of having the bad creep up are gone, vanished and just not there.
The downs hurt. Hurt because they cut bone deep and yet feel all-right at the same time. Feel all, right. It hurts to compare, hurts to look through the non opaque glass, hurts to ask and hurts to want, hurts to be flawed. Yet when it hits her, it feels like there isn't anything else more important than that strive for the best; perfection. Because that's what is needed to erase, get rid off and evaporation the bad completely. So it won't ever creep up again, perfection.
To put it bluntly, it's not achievable because as beautiful as an angel seems, it's wings still miss a feather and as flawless as Gisele seems, she's (as Eugene puts it)- has photo shop to back her up on a one hair strand out of place day. She knows that.
Tantrums are thrown, words are spat out. Some meant and some unidentified. But at that very point, it's like the earth has just lost all it's gravity, like a dog goes loose when it's leash breaks -uncontrollable. And then, she breaks. She breaks because she's tired, torn out, worn out and yet gravity isn't on her side, but wait -she doesn't want it to be. It can't be because that means her weight increases, it means that the scale does too. Yet without it, she knows she'll float away and the atmosphere goes, very far off now, doesn't it?
Is it wrong for a dog to run when it's leash comes out? Do you stop it and forbid it to, disown it when it doesn't sit at your feet when the leash snaps? Is it wrong for astronauts to float, to not keep their feet on the ground because gravity just isn't there? Are they expected to remain, defy gravity? And if Belle had a choice, is she wrong to want to not look this way, feel like this and be this size, with a Gisele shrunk to the size of an A4 page next to her?
It's tiring, she loves exhaustion yet it is, exhaustion isn't it? It tires her out yet she's bought it with a high price and it won't get rid of her so easily. It won't get lost and wear out just like that. It reappears, again and again and again.
A message comes in and she remembers it's supposed to be her special day, a day when she's made a decision to let everything go smoothly, nothing get messy, everything to be perfect. But it doesn't happen like that-
The clock shows twelve fifteen am and it's just Physics, it's just a Happy Birthday, after nearly a week of being transmitted to through sound waves, you don't show and she greets herself through tears. Yeah, 'Happy' Birthday.
But theres an inbox, and there are a few messages, some that comes before, some later. Sixteen stalks even if they weren't actually touched by you and it ends with a candle in her letterbox. A chocolate one but it's glowing and a ladybugs next to it (:
It was a messup. A micro messup but a messup nonetheless and it affected her in a huge way.
Texts, a helium balloon, cupcake and tears. Beautiful yet so flawed at the same time.
Belle works like oxidation. She can remove some of the grunge but it might reappear again, and she doesn't know when. She likes it when it's shiny and dreads having to remove the mess after because it's tiring and she's afraid one day all her chemicals that help polish it will disappear. She's afraid they will rebel, say "I can't take it anymore" and give up on her. Then she'll just oxidize and get covered up till she's left as rust, and noone, at all likes rust. It's natural not too.
It's 11:28 pm on the 5th of May. And Belle smiles at the last two minutes. She frowns and the her mouth goes, straight because she doesn't know which one is more appealing then. And it's over, cause it's then twelve the next day.
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It adds up to my sixteenth in total. It adds up because it's one day more, one day closer to my well, seventeenth.
It wasn't beautiful and yet it wasn't horrendous. Somehow, it wasn't in the middle either.
But yeah, sixteen (:
Thank you for the texts, posts and wishes.
It's been a memorable one, lovely and flawed at the same time -Yes, I've been confusing for sixteen years I should think. I L Y all.
And on the happy side, I think I'm going to get an SLR.
'Taa loves.