It's actually been several weeks since I wrote yesterday's prompt- that's how the workflow on these goes. I walked into the first week of college ignoring the existence of my wretched haircut, cocky in the knowledge that as I had been ignored almost completely the semester before, I had nothing to worry about.
Then, everything got weird.
People were noticing me and making the effort to talk to me and learn my name and pressing my hand instead of shaking and what on earth, was that guy flirting? Then this one guy introduced himself and talked to me on purpose and I was so surprised that all I could think of to say, over and over, was "Glad to meet you." That works great till like, the fifth time you say it.
But what on earth? I was invisible last semester. And NOTHING about me has changed. I'm wearing the same shirts, the same pair of jeans, the same scuffed-up shoes. I have the same zits, the same weight, the same slap-dash makeup design I pulled out of an 80's book in tenth grade. What could possibly be different that would change the way people saw me so much?
I'd like to think I suddenly developed poise and confidence and chutzpah over the summer, but my mom laid it out for me. I walked in exactly the same- except for hair like a Shetland pony.
Prompt: A physical change alters the way your character is perceived by others.
Is that cliche? Yes. But it happens. And, boy, is it weird when it does.
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