The sky was crying. She felt the cloud imitating her wounded heart. She rested her gaze upon the streets full of life and wondered how such lifeless soul like herself could blend in to such atmosphere. As her footsteps traced the pavement, her mind displayed the thoughts she tried to run away from, but couldn't. They ran around in her mind, forcing her to believe the tragedy behind her existence were destined to be the reason she had to disguise her wounds. so now they were unseen. She could felt judging stares piercing her skin as drops of rain fell onto her. Perhaps the visage of a girl walking around with no umbrella in her hand on a rainy day seemed absurd. But that was what she was; absurd. She never tried to change it. She never found the reason to.
A girl about her age passed by and through the corner of her eyes, she felt herself shrank as her gaze met the girl's perfect complexion. The hair, the clothes, the face. it was all so perfect. She looked away, continuing her pace. But behind the blank expression, lies many wishes, waiting to be born into reality. She wished she wasn't so ugly. She wished the flesh around her bones could somehow diminish so she wouldn't have to be so fat. She wished she could be good enough. She turned right as the view of her favourite coffee shop greeted her eyes. With the absence of light in her eyes, she entered Starbucks but immediately forced the remaining life inside her to be shown in her eyes as soon as she noticed the people were staring at her, as if they were figuring her sad vibes. She never liked these kinds of attention. She ordered herself a
Cinnamon Dolce Crème Frappuccino before making her way to a table, far away from anyone else and took a seat near the window.

Surrounded with strangers, she felt foreign. New faces freaked her out. Perhaps that stood behind the reason why people would misunderstood her for being arrogant at times. Well, she didn't find the need to blame them. It was hers. It was her fault that she was never good at saying hellos. She placed her gaze outside the window, grasping and drinking in the beauty of the skies, lurking beneath the dark clouds. Through her eyes, she followed the steps of strangers passing by, yet again wishing for the same thing. For that beauty she never seemed to have. With her eyes fixed on passing strangers, she began to isolate herself from the world and soon enough, she was lost in her own thoughts. A lot of things danced around in her mind. She fell into patheticism as she wondered, since when did beauty matter so much to her? She stared at the visage of her old self her mind had conjured for her to see and suddenly, a wave of regret swept through her, shattering the glass of pretense she built around her soul. she began to search for that happy, normal girl she used to be. It was there inside her, though she could feel as if 'she' was fading into a black hole. Just like a firedrill alarm, it strucked her. What have she become? How could she let those immaterial things destroyed her?
She didn't notice the waiter already had her order on the table. She drank her frappucino, calculating how long she had been staring out the window. She looked around and no one seemed to care. For some reasons, she was a bit relieved by the ignorance shown by those unfamiliar faces. She focused all her senses into tasting every hint of heaven in her coffee, in an attempt to distract her mind from being stucked in her corrosive thoughts. She had fear of her own thoughts for they had the ability to corrode her tough confidence. Well, she had her reasons. The proof was there. She'd lost her confidence to her mind. Her dark, tainted mind. She took a last sip of her coffee and got up. She placed her sling back around her shoulder and walked out. At the front door, there stood a waiter. she recalled him. He was the waiter who took her order. Her lips curved a thin smile as she passed him.

"Hey, I'm sorry miss, but you forgot you bills slip." He said, offering a warm smile. She couldnt help but to think that was the warmest smile she had ever received from a stranger. "Oh I'm sorry. Thanks." She nodded at him and soon she was out of the coffee shop. Though she was puzzled by the waiter's little remark, She thought no shopkeeper would care enough if their customer forgot to take their bills slip home, She kept it in her pocket, with no intention of throwing it away. After a few steps away from the coffee shop, she had the urge to look back. She didn't know why, It was not because she'd left something, She just wanted to. So she did. her eyebrow raised when her eyes met the waiter's, a little bit surprised to see he was still there, looking at her. Her mind thought of the bills slip and though hesitated, she traced her fingers to her pocket and pulled the bills slip out. She flipped it backward. The letters scribled on the paper made her smile; not just an ordinary smile. It was the first time she was capable to carve such sincere curve on her face in a long time. She looked up and saw the waiter walking towards her. She freezed herself, anxious of what the waiter would do next. Seeing her current state, soft chuckle escaped his delicate lips. He moved towards her inch by inch until there was no distance left between them.She could feel her heartbeat beating loudly in her chest as she stared at him, just waiting for his next action. Her heartbeat beated faster as he leaned down to her face level. He then whispered, "Please stop hiding that lovely smile, you're beautiful. " For once in her life, she believed a stranger.
P.S My sister find it hard to believe that I wrote that story all by myself. :|