Nonsense

patty’s left slipper whizzed by my face and i ducked just in time to miss the right one. she was pissed that i’d eaten her cookies. it wasn’t the first time but there was no one to blame anymore cause they’d moved out.

i grabbed my backpack and ran outside. patty was gonna kick me out soon like the rest of them once she found out the state wouldn’t pay her to keep me.

not until remembering this did it occur to me i was a thief. i mean, i’m pretty sure eating someones cookies is kinda like burglary. maybe she even had the right to shoot and kill. i don’t know.

patty was really pretty and when she put on her makeup in the morning i’d watch and take notes. it took about an hour and she always looked twenty years older when she was done so i wanted to be just like her. look older so i could move along in the world without being questioned about my age.

she had fancy makeup though. the kind you get from honest to goodness makeup stores. i could only afford the makeup in the clearance bin at newberry’s on main street and of course the palettes never matched my skin color. i always ended up looking like a coked up ghost in some horror movie.

it wasn’t until i was twenty-five that i stepped foot into one of those make-up castles and boy was it overwhelming. a lady came up to me to ask me what i was looking for and when i told her i didn’t know she proceeded to tell me what i needed.

she sat me down in a chair and handed me a mirror to look at my imperfections. it basically turned me into a gargoyle.

she told me i needed foundation and proceeded to put plaster on my horrifying skin. it burned but i didn’t say anything cause i learned from patty that beauty equals pain.

i was beginning to look pretty but also unrecognizable. she got out some lip colors and told me i’d look good with purple so i nodded cause my face was on fire and i didn’t want to move my lips.

i left the store with two hundred dollars of makeup i never used and it turns out that i just needed a few more decades to look in that same mirror to see i was beautiful all along.