Do you Believe in Magic?
Chapter 2: Beautiful but Deadly
I've never really ever had a problem with my looks, I always knew I wasn't gorgeous, but at least I wasn't ugly. I never tried to be beautiful before, neither have I ever thought of considering the idea. It's funny how sometimes people can just say a few words and then it makes you really angry. I guess that's how I felt. It all started with a few words said by a fellow upperclassman who seemed to have her eyes on Oshitari, and then I guess her words got to me and Oshitari might've made it just a little bit worse.
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"You got it wrong again, I thought you were a genius " Oshitari said to her when she got the 4th problem of the math problem wrong for the 20th time. She pushed the textbooks aside and groaned, "I hate this!!!!!" He raised an eyebrow, "You gave up after a few tries."
She glared at him, "Why don't you try being a better tutor?" He crossed his arms, "If you mean by giving you the answers, then that really isn't called tutoring." Slamming her head back onto the desk again, she started to whine.
"Oshitari-kun, how could you possibly choose a bland, no fashion sense, dumb, untalented, and absolutely an unattractive girl like her!" Quickly, looking over at who had just spoken she felt her veins pop with anger. Standing in front of the door was Yui Kasugano, the senior who had her eyes on Oshitari. Despite the fact that she was a senior who had her eyes on a junior, the whole school seemed to like the idea of having these two together. All because she was like a super model who was just absolutely gorgeous, smart, rich, and talented. Even though she possessed all of these traits, he seemed uninterested in her, simply because he thought she was annoying.
She stood in front of the door smirking at the sight of them both together. "You need to open your eyes and choose me." She hissed, crossing her arms. He frowned, "She isn't my girlfriend Kasugano-senpai, she's just someone I'm tutoring." Upon hearing this Yui suddenly burst into a fit of giggles, "I knew that, why would you even choose her over someone like me to begin with?"
A few light insults never really did much except piss off, however these big insults that came pouring out of a low life like Yui really pissed her off. "Shut up, I'm not as bad as you make me sound, right Oshitari?"
"Your looks are no match against Yui, thats for sure." He smiled playfully, but was fuming. She really wasn’t an ugly girl; plain dark hair, plain brown eyes, nothing beautiful, but nothing really ugly. She had never been a girly kind of girl, but she had never thought of herself as homely. But hearing his words made her blood boil with anger, what had this world become?! Was looks all that mattered now?! Yui smiled confidently, "Why don't you just give up on Oshitari-kun, he's mine!" Turning around, gritted her teeth angrily and tossed her textbooks straight at Oshitari's face. "Screw you guys, I'm going home!" She stomped out of the classroom angrily as Oshitari fell to the floor from having the 4 heavy textbooks hit him straight in the face.
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"Let's see, where is the book that teaches how to make people more beautiful." Tossing the books in and out of the shelves, she searched around frantically. After what had happened, she suddenly felt more conscious about her looks and she suddenly decided, that it was time to have both Yui and Oshitari take back their words. After hours of searching the huge library, she finally found a very old textbook that was falling apart. Yet it had the ingredients and instructions of a beauty potion, even though the text was a bit smudged, she could still make out some of the words.
"Unicorn hair, nyphms hair, powdered mermaid scales, and poof." After mixing them all together, she continued reading the instructions, "Warning, do ### overdose." She raised her eyebrow, "I thought overdosing was bad, oh well doesn't matter." Taking a swig, she waited for a while and suddenly her eyelids felt heavy, rocking back and forth. Slowly, she felt herself fall onto the floor. "I...feel so woozy..." She felt herself go into a deep, deep quiet sleep.
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Waking up the next morning, she found that she was still on the kitchen floor. "My head..." mumbled to herself, glancing over at the clock hanging on the kitchen wall, she gasped, "I'm late for school!!!" Running to the living room she grabbed her backpack and left without checking the mirror to see what the results from the potion was.
"Damn it, I'm so late for school!!" She thought to herself as she ran down the streets. For a funny reason every boy and girl was staring at her as she ran past them in a hurry. Sitting down on her seat quickly she suddenly felt awkward because of all the boys were staring at her. Not normal stares either, some were lovey stares, others were sick perverted stares, and others were stares of shock. The girls were all staring at her in shock, which was funny because she swore that the girls in her class were straight.
"What…happened to you?" Oshitari asked her, she looked at him with a confused look, "What?" Reaching into her desk, she pulled out her compact mirror and flipped it open. She was shocked to see that her face had indeed changed, not just a little, but alot. Her hair was silky and dark, her nails were healthy and long, her fingers were thin and fair, her skin was fair and silky, her nose had no blackheads or pores, her skin was acne and zit free, her eyelashes were longer, thicker, and darker. Her jaws dropped open, but she was even more surprised to find that her teeth was sparkling white and straightened perfectly, almost as if she had surgery on them. Oshitari was very surprised, "Did you have plastic surgery or something?" She glared at him, "No, I'm 100% natural." Sighing, she thought to herself, 'well, I didn't use surgery.'
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After class, she found out that every guy started becoming freakishly nice to her and some were even hitting on her. However, the girls started to hate her, their jealousy was even worse than their self confidence. Especially Yui and her gang, Yui had found out about being even more beautiful than she was. She didn't exactly take it well, she immediately marched down to the junior section and searched for eagerly, so she could see for herself.
"How dare you try to become pretty now, you bitch!" Yui shrieked at her and started tugging on her hair angrily. pushed her away and started running as she heard other screaming jealous girls behind her. "Screw you guys, I'm going home!!!"
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Running frantically into the house she lunged at the cabinets searching for ugly pills. " what are you doing?" had asked walking down the stairs, stopping, she gasped, "What shampoo did you use, your hair is so pretty!" Rushing over, she ran her fingers through her hair, "Did you finally decide to actually be a girl?" Ignoring her sister, she started knocking all the pills down the shelf.
" , I don't want to be beautiful!!" She whined to her sister who just looked at her with a confused look.
"Why not?" Her question was answered by the pounding on their front door and scraping sounds on the window which were all made by the girls who had followed her home to kill her. "Oh, I can reverse your effect with a simple potion, it'll only take 1 minute." Dragging her up the stairs, they could hear the door outside burst open as screams of anger and the sound of angry girls came crashing through the door.
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Locking the attic door, lifted the loose floorboard open as she pulled out a bottle that was filled with a black liquid. "I'm going to use this one because it reverses effects if you overdose and knowing you, you probably did overdose." Uncorking the bottle, she quickly started drinking it while the door of the attic burst open as the girls came pouring in. "Kill her!!!!!" They all screamed as they lunged at Yanking her hair they started scratching her, "STOP IT!!!" Looking at their faces they all backed away, "You're not pretty!" Pushing her hair back she frowned, "I think you all need to get out of my house now, as you can see, I'm not pretty anymore." They all started smiling and left the attic, all chattering happily.
"Thank god it's over." grabbed her arm and smiled at her, "no its not~" The window in the attic exploded as started exploding every object that was near "HOW DARE YOU EVEN DRINK A POTION LIKE THAT AND EXPECT YOUR NOT GOING TO BE PUNISHED!!!!" Ducking and dodging from her older sister, she fled down the stairs screaming, "I’d rather be killed by those other girls!!!"
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"Whoa, what happened to you, you were pretty yesterday and then boom your a beast again." Oshitari said to her the next day. stood there with a bandage wrapped around her forehead and band-aids all over her face from having her sister explode every window in the house. She glared at him, "It's all your fault you know. Saying someone like Yui is prettier then me." hissed, turning away from him.
He chuckled, "She is, but she's a horrible person. I would choose you over her anytime." Behind them, they heard a chair creak across the floor as Yui abruptly stood up. With a hiss, she came running past them and out the door, sobbing the entire way. smiled a little, "I guess I went a bit over my head."
He smirked, "I want to know, how did you get yourself to turn into someone so pretty without surgery?" She stuck her tongue out, "Hmph! I’m not telling you." smiled sticking out her tongue. She grinned, turning back towards the teacher who has entered the room.
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Suzuka
Edited by Kashii