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When You Were The Ugly Friend

Even if you glow up, we all got a little ugly friend inside us.

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When You Were The Ugly Friend
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Some have felt it and some have watched it, but we all know about it – the kid that just wasn't good looking all through elementary and middle school, and came back sophomore or junior year looking like a completely different person.

The ugly kid in middle school, a staple of friend groups everywhere. The long limbs that didn't fit their frame right, clothes that made them look to skinny or too big, an awkward haircut and bad acne all make up the terrible equation of horrible looks. But the thing about being THAT kid is that it doesn't go away when you figure out you look good in pink, short hair makes your jawline look better, washing your face twice a day will control your acne and you grew into your gangly limbs.

You carry around what you once were, as if it is what you are today. I know looks aren't everything but hey, hear me out.

You think that the group of pretty girls who burst out laughing must be laughing at you and everywhere you go people turning to see who you are, is them sizing you up.

Clothes shopping just straight up sucks. Yeah you found the gym and you're taller now, but sometimes it's hard not to see the seventh grade kid who changed at the corner locker so people wouldn't see them. You see yourself in one bad angle and it's all ruined. Every shirt has one thing that just isn't right. The length or the width or how the sleeves hang just isn't right. Either way you aren't getting that shirt. Or any shirt. You're going home to sit on your couch and pretend you didn't even try today.

There's probably a list of other things I could tell you about but the dark things are your past.

Transformation pictures Is where you came to shine. Like hell yeah, I was the kid you wouldn't pay attention to but now you're in my messages about how good I look. And yeah, I DO look awesome.

You get to know that you're a genuinely attractive person, and it wasn't just given to you. You were straight nasty and the most common compliment you got was that you had a great personality. But you worked your way out of it. Now that cutie making eyes at you across the room, doesn't know if you have a good personality but they're gonna try and find out.

Being the ugly kid in middle school will always suck but it usually ends and you usually win.

Love,

The staple ugly friend of my middle school friend group.

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