"-get your weight down to forty kilograms at least and then we'll consider. And please comb your hair once in a while, you look like the living dead, " the manager said coldly to the girl in front of her. The girl just smiled like an idiot, as if she was expecting this.

"What's your weight again?" he asked.

"Ye-yes? It's n-ninety six... " she stammered while avoiding eye contact and still smiling.

"Geez! Go on a diet sometimes!" he muttered under his breath as he pushed the girl out of his office, "Don't come back unless you're ready, Jennie."

And that girl, Jennie, just nodded gravely with a humble smile as he shut the door of his office and mumbled under his breath, "May she never come back! Ugh! Talk about shameless people!"

Jennie's smile soon turned numb as her eyes started to water. She quickly wiped her eyes while sniffling. She took out a packet of chips from her bag and started munching on them. Out of the spur of the moment, she made a decision. A painful decision.

She walked straight to the hospital.

"Mr. Andrew!" she shouted as she barged into one of the rooms, "I've decided! I want to have a plastic surgery!" She said with a determined face.

"Why again?" Andrew sighed.

"No, this time I'm sure, " Jennie said while taking a seat.

"What do you want to change?" Andrew asked.

"Everything, " the reply came.

***

Even now, five years later from that day, she stood in front of the mirror, a beautiful wallpaper covered her room which said, 'Even if you can't change the world, don't let the world change you'

She laughed to herself like a maniac as she stared at her own reflection in the mirror - smooth skin, tall, skinny, big eyes, plump lips, small nose, curvy waist, wavy hair - flawless.

Still to this day she sometimes wonders, what it'd be like if that day, she'd not changed herself that day. Those insults, were they worth everything? Were they worth the pain? Were they worth going under the knife? Were they worth all that was happening?

Were they worth her?

And sometimes she answers herself too.

Maybe no...