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Priscilla Vanderwaale: A Short Story

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Never in the history of the world did a heart sink to the bottom of the floor faster. A room she presumed to be filled to the brim with her peers, with flashing lights, and smiling faces. Was empty. Not a soul in the house besides her parents, their few guests, and the hired help. Humiliated. Priscilla Vanderwaale had never been so humiliated in her entire life. God, how pathetic was she? To think that a pretty dress and a nice party would magically mean something. She had watched too many fucking movies. Set her expectations too high. This wasn’t middle school anymore, she couldn’t buy her way into popularity, not even for one measly night. Was it too much to ask for? Was having friends who wanted to celebrate her birthday with her too …show more content…

Not even Lucia. “No….no one is here.” She finally managed to choke out. Receiving glances full of pity from her parents’ friends as her father pipped in with a confidence. “They just must be running late, sweetheart.” They both knew that was a bold face lie but Priscilla was far too busy trying to hold back the tears that threatened to spill down her make up covered cheeks to call him out for it. But they fell anyways. A single tear drop hitting the railing with an inaudible splash before the flood gates were released and suddenly her carefully painted face was being washed off by a waterfall of her own tears. A singular loud sob was the only thing that clued the few guest downstairs to what was happening behind the curtain of her blonde hair. Instantly her mother was in fight mode. “Oh no, honey. God honey. Please don’t cry.” The woman called as she rushed up the steps to come to her weeping daughter. And for a second, just a split second, Priscilla felt rage towards her own mother. Even worried and breaking a sweat as she rushed up a flight of stairs in heels she looked like an angel. Why the hell did she look like an angel but not Priscilla? Why had she deprived her of the only genes in this stupid town that

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