Three friendships
[Ross & Elsa]
Well I’m grateful to Elsa for her friendship, but at the same time, it makes me vaguely uncomfortable. She’s a popular kid, and it’s no mystery why, either: she’s properly beautiful. I mean, her skin’s smooth and cool and reflective, the colour of Earl Grey tea with a slice of lemon and I bet it tastes that way too and her lips are moist but never cracked like mine and her breasts are really big and round and they move when she moves and it’s like, it’s not lust I feel for her, it’s self-loathing. I’m not beautiful. I wear glasses. My skin’s a sort of off-white and it’s very sensitive. I get this rash over my hands when it’s too cold. Plus I’m short. And skinny. And I sweat too much but I haven’t spoken to my doctor about it because I’m also nervous. And w
