There are all kinds of girls in my school.
Plain ones like me, super skinny ones that eat nothing for lunch, chatty ones during lunch, and plump ones.
However, the other kinds disappeared these days. The one ones left are those super skinny ones…
One day after school, I stayed behind a little longer…
Hmmm…what’s this room for?
A scale!
Suddenly I felt weird, like there was something wrong as soon as I got onto the scale.
*swish*
I awoke to darkness.
I felt as if I was in space.
But I was not floating, I was standing on the ground. I looked down and found the scale right beside me.
When I looked around, my middle school is standing in front of me!
Well…I guess that’s case closed. All the people inside the school building are those not-skinny ones that disappeared!
-Hello, I'm Mae...
-I know that the awful scale brought you here, it brought all of us here, to the upside-down of our school.
-Why?
-Because we're supposedly "fat". Sigh, being "skinny and pretty" is all they care about these days. If you're even a teeny bit overweight, the scale brings you here. As a punishment, I guess.
-Let's take a walk around the campus.
-Sure.
Further into the hall, there were some figures lined up together.
When we walked closer to them, we realized that they were people. They were standing as still as statues but looked so real. We realized that they were beauty standards in different time periods!
We wandered around each figure as if we’re walking through a museum.
When we finished examining the figures from the past centuries, different figures from the 20th century welcomed us.
-Wow... Those beauty standards have changed so much! Some are not even skinny!
-Yeah!
-But the current beauty standard is that girls are all thin and aesthetic and beautiful?
-Who said we must be like them?
While we were talking, we walked out of the corridor and came to the other side of the school...to a shopping mall! There are posters of all kinds of girls on the billboards in the mall!
We walked into the mall.
Although the outside of the mall is colorful, it's dark inside. Just when I couldn't see my fingers, Mae‘s face flashed with excitement, and she rushed towards something like a dressing stand with makeup.
I told her that although makeup is not a bad thing—there are people in the world who use it every day; however, “Makeup can only make you look pretty on the outside, but it doesn’t help if your ugly on the inside.” Because true beauty cannot be copied or created by cosmetics.
After Mae picked out a lipstick from the makeup stand, we looked ahead and saw a golden stage that shone brightly in the dark mall. On the golden stage, a beautiful ballerina was dancing happily.
The elegant ballerina saw is and invited us to dance with her! We objected at first, since neither of us knew how to dance. But she insisted we come. As we were dancing, I realized how happy and pretty we all were is dancing with the ballerina. Even though we did a lot of weird and un-professional moves.
After playing for a while, the ballerinas pointed to a patch of yellow flowers in the distance and let us go take a look. Some little girls are playing in the flowers too!
We joined them, playing wildly in the yellow flowers!
Happiest girls are the prettiest!
Then Mae pulled out a small mirror...
-Hey！
-After all this I realized...
-We’re all pretty!
-Ready to go back?
-Yeah…
We went back to the scale outside of the school, took a deep breath, and stepped on it!
Whoosh...
We felt as if we're flying and spinning in a tornado! It was not as scary as when we came her, and we enjoyed it!
I was sitting in the cafeteria, all kinds of girls came back!
Audrey Hepburn once said:“True beauty of a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows and the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years."