Sama Yashami

my name is Sama Yashami. And to be really honest, I'm beautiful. Or so I've been told a couple times, heh who am I kidding? Everywhere I go I've been called beautiful, there's nobody that won't fall in love with me. I cant go anywhere without anybody falling in love with me. When I was little all the boys in 1st grade had a crush on me. And all boys still do! And, I used to see this as a gift. But it's more of a curse now that I've grown up. I'm not the only person that has this problem. My mom does too, she's married to my dad but still gets called beautiful, even when she tells people that she's married they refuse to give up and walk away. I'm not married yet but I fear this will happen to me when I get older. I have a pale white face with long black hair that stops at my knees and sharp blue eyes. Similar to my mother, but she has green eyes, I get the blue from my dad.

*Walking in store with mom when suddenly an old woman walks up*

"Awww look at you! You're so beautiful!! And you're sister too…" she says.. my mom placed her hand on her heart and thanks the old woman. "Thank you so much! But I'm not her sister, this is my daughter." My mom says. "What! You look so young and beautiful! I remember when I used to be so young. I wish I could just go back." The lady says with a smile on her face. My mom thanks her once again and tugs at my shoulder for me to say thank you. "O-oh.. thank you miss.." I say. We say our goodbyes and I roll my eyes. "I've heard that before. I scoff. My mom looks angry and stops to scold me. "Young lady! You do not disrespect elders like that! You should be grateful you have such a face! If you had no beauty, everybody would stay away from you and make fun of you. You can call yourself lucky! God could've made you anything else but he decided to make you my daughter and you should be grateful because of it. Now I want to think about what would happen if you had NO beauty then let's see who's scoffing now?"

She says angrily. That's not the first time my mom has had to scold me. But I just can't help it! I hear it all the time " ohh your sooo beautiful just like your sister " and it gets annoying! One day I just wanna be able say what's on my mind and not get scolded in stores after.

A few minutes later, we are checking out our stuff in the cashier line. And suddenly the man stops and stares at me, my mom, then me again. I already knew what he was going to say. But, he didn't. He asked my mom something!

"How old is your daughter?" EXCUSE ME?! WHAT IS HE TRYING TO SAY?! THAT MY MOM IS OLD?! Huh, who does he think he is?! "She's 19, why?" My mom asks. I'm surprised she didn't react the same way I did. She just seemed to be okay with it! "No reason. She's just very-" "beautiful?" I cut him off. "No, pretty." He says. EXCUSE ME?! ITS ONE THING TO CALL MY MOTHER OLD, BUT TO CALL ME "PRETTY?!" I FEEL INSULTED. but what do you know my mother doesn't seem to have a problem with it, and she.. LAUGHS?!

"Thank you dear, you are very handsome as well." She says. And I think she was lying, the cashier was very ugly. Nothing compared to me and my mother. As we walk out the store I turn around to see the cashier looking at me with a smirk on his face. And this is our local store, and I could tell I would be seeing more of this cashier.