I stare up into Talan’s heartbreakingly beautiful face. Even
though I should be scared out of my wits, all I can think about is
how desperately I wanted to see him.
“Nia.” Talan’s voice sounds
“Raphael,” I say weakly. “There’s a secret—”
One of the goons hits me, a sudden punch into my stomach, and my
breath whooshes out. I feel like I’m suffocating.
I glance up. Raphael unsheathes his
"Otoportre, kişinin gerçek hayattaki görüntüsüne çok az benzeyen, üzerinde gitgide daha fazla oynanan, filtrelenmiş imajlardan müteşekkil günümüz selfielerinin öncülüdür. "
I sit on that line that so many sit on, the line between beautiful and not. The line where I can reach it on a good day, during the follicular phase of my cycle, if I didn't sleep on my face, with just the right amount of plucking and primping and a precise swath of eyeliner. It's the line that keeps me even more stuck in the hamster wheel of the pursuit of beauty. Even more dependent on makeup tutorials and tips-and-tricks videos and "that perfect cream bronzer". Because anything could be the thing that makes the difference between me being beautiful or not.
Her perfume smells like rain and smoke and her eye makeup scares small children and she wears pumps even though she's at least two inches taller than I am and I'm a freak. Why? Because life is shorter than we are, she says, so why beat around the bush?