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“Courtney!?”
Courtney Ann Stella was Latina and had Filipino ancestry
She turn 15th as of yesterday
Bandages on her face were most likely noticeable
It was the price for being beautiful!
If she could roll her eyes if it didn't hurt so much
You see, if you have any money or power in her world it means everything.
If you're a daughter, your a curse and pawn to gamble in chessboard called life
“Hello, Gwendolyn.”
It was even hard to just form those two words.
She's cream on the top therefore the process of “beauty”starts now!
Lindsay and Heather's party, their sweet sixteen, was in a year in counting where they're going through the process too.
Courtney envies Gwen because she wasn't as wealthy as her family, therefore maybe until she was 21 for the process, Lindsay was naturally beautiful, and LeShawna definitely wouldn't need huge changes for the process!
Courtney dreams of the world that she didn't have to be her parents' puppet, “beauty” was mostly valued for females to be, and mostly she wished she had told Duncan she loved him most of all instead of breaking up with him suddenly because she didn't want him to see her like this!
Monster covered in bandages!
Gwen cringed awfully, climbing through roughly bumping into the window by a fearful Bridgette with Alejandro and shocked Noah gripping Alejandro's arm tightly.
“What did you do, Courtney!?” Noah screamed in grief
Courtney wanted to laugh
But instead she cried
Painful times with her tears she hoped to drown in
They scrubbed off most awful freckles her mother said happily
Only left some behind since she wouldn't stop crying about it so much with others they had strapped down next to her too
Courtney wanted to scream
No more puffy under eye
No more looking tired
The little cute bump on her nose is gone too
Scars on her body gone too which were a gift from her bio father before he was killed off by the cops
Baby fat gone
More of hourglass figure
In this world being beautiful was everything
But to her it meant nothing now
Beauty is when her and Duncan used tease each other
Beauty is Gwen and Katie sleeping on top of her in her sleepovers growing up
Beauty is Bridgette, Brody, Geoff being very sweaty and smelly like ocean air then saying maybe you should practice more with us after she gets back on her own personal surfboard that Brody and Geoff made her.
Beauty isn't this
Courtney felt broken
Courtney felt like Duncan mostly right about her
Especially now
She only cared about looking good echoes her mind and it's his Duncan's lovely voice mocking her now as some her closest friends try to comfort her as she sobbed into herself
She hopes Duncan wasn't right about her
When everyone else is having their sweet sixteen but she will be since as perfect “10”, no longer a child or teenager, but a high praise lady becoming to the society, who is still growing into her bosom, her bottom, and thighs.
But at least she'll have an hourglass figure ready to go!
That nose is to die for they'll say!
They'll say how they envy her youth and the new technology used for her body instead!
I don't know much about being “normal” yet this is not what she asked for or ever wanted.
Yet she had kept the legacy up that's the only reason they made her mother say.
Gwen thought Courtney was missing classes because of the flu!?
It seems like she was telling the truth about her great plan for running away from her golden princess kingdom someday soon before the process happened.
Gwen and the others felt guilt for not believing her and now it's too late
Courtney was almost successful running away from it all with a boy named Scott and girl named Dawn but whoever ratted them out was going to pay.
Meanwhile
“400,000 in cash, thank you for “dating” my daughter. A punk like you is good in this business, whoever knows!?”
Duncan smirked
“Yeah yeah, I get paid to be a rebel boyfriend to break rich bitches hearts, plant recording devices on them and rat them out for fun, but reality is not so easy, it's just a job. I got siblings to feed and my ma to help out since my father passed. No hard feelings, right? It's not like we'll ever cross paths after this, right?”
Aurora rolled her eyes at the teen delinquent “You'll probably be out of prison by the time you do ever meet again as my daughter will be her husband's secretary to his law firm but I hardly doubt that will happen too.”
Duncan took his payment angrily mumbling to himself that bitch has some nerve stomping away
That was 2 years ago
Now he's here in her private highschool going on this beautiful speech about her private military school offering extra help like study sessions and happy to open their place of education on behalf of the class president Noah who was tiredly sleeping on Courtney’s boy toy Alejandro!?
Duncan pretty sure the princess is dating Alejandro because mommy probably pick him out for their “legacy”
It's his fault since he blow up the school with Mal last year with Owen and Cody's help as a bit fuck you to Chris! Their principal!
Now Duncan stuck here
At 18 years old looking at his “ex-girlfriend” he betrayed
But he didn't really know it was her at first
There's no curly hair anymore
No cinnamon roll smell off her
No more intense freckles on her skin
Her eyes were hurting and tired
What had he done!?
Felt
Felt bad!?
He doesn't like it!
He hates this fucking feeling so much.
They finally finished up he rushed out and up to her quickly
Then he paused furiously at the happening
Courtney hates this part
Topher her “boyfriend” 16 years old, good family name, handsome, cocky, and at times understanding pulled her down for a peck on the cheek then heated kissing on behalf of the contract for their future marriage or whatever nonsense their parents made up for them!
Topher was sweet? She supposed
Topher liked her too!?
It's hard to tell these days especially when to keep their legacies alive! She rather not say anything about loving him
Topher was more of friend she sometimes had kiss or make out with sometimes
Like now
Oh!
Ouch!
Her eyes are closed and Topher as her against the wall somehow probably tripped on her heel wedges again!
Courtney whimpers shyly against the walls as Topher nervously continues to make out with her confused if he doesn't have to continue this or not!?
He doesn't want overstep his boundaries but as well as like the noises Courtney just made
She was his first ever in everything he supposed!?
Oh thank God! She thought as Scott, Heather, Brick, LeShawna, and Alejandro pulled them apart
Topher embarrassedly thank them for helping them out
Duncan saw red
Gwen and Mal touched him out of the reality of punching Topher to death
“What's up with you!?” Mal questioned
Gwen on the other hand got distracted and happily ran towards Courtney!
“Hi there Miss Vice President!” Gwen teasingly saying to her
Topher blinking at the gothic witch in a bit of fear
“Gwendolyn! Stop it! Oh I forgot my manners!” She roughly fixed her uniform and then grabbed Topher by the right side of her
“This is my Topher! My future husband! Isn't he lovely!?”
Gwen gave her a long look
Then glance at Topher back to her furiously
Oh no
Courtney knows that look
Gwen was judging him super hard and the expression of will talk about this later you dumb bitch
Courtney gulped as Topher happily gushing over her then trying make small talk to Gwen
Then she saw him
The traitor
The bitch that ratted her out
Duncan
Courtney is clinging onto Topher now like if he could be her human body shield just in case! Then she spotted Dj and Brody nearby in the front thinking ah perfect timing if sh needs backup in the crowd places as the started the school year roughly