"Oh come on, Liz, it's not that bad!"
"Bad? Bad!? Lila, I'm going to-!"
Elizabeth spun away from the mirror to glare at her friend who held the hair-cutting sheers in her right hand. A pile of her jet black hair lay on the floor at her feet, and her once chest length hair was now cut back to her shoulders, but the pieces were rough and choppy.
"You ruined my hair!" She shouted at her friend.
"Hey! You've got powers! It'll grow back in-"
Just as Lila spoke, Elizabeths' hair grew back to full length, restoring the choppy pieces to their smooth and curly texture.
Sighing with annoyance, Elizabeth snatched the sheers from out of her friends hands!
"That's not the point," Elizabeth grumbled as she brushed past her friend; she set the cutting sheers on the counter. "I thought you said you knew how to cut hair."
"Why are you so bent on trying to cut your hair when it grows back on its own literally within seconds?" Lila asked with annoyance, turning around to face Elizabeth.
They both exited out of the bathroom and went back in to Lilas' bedroom which was adjoined with the other room.
"Because I want a change, and I can't do that without figuring out a loophole with these stupid powers; I don't want to keep my hair this long, it's a pain to maintain!" Elizabeth complained.
"Hey! Your hair is gorgeous! You should embrace it."
"It makes me look like an absolute monster! Look at me, Lila! I'm a freak!"
Elizabeth looked in the mirror and shook her head. Her once natural dark brown hair and dark brown eyes were now gone, replaced by completely different colors. Her hair was now jet black and her eyes were a hideous shade of chartruese green. Ever since she was experimented on, she hated her new appearance. It made her look like a freak and a monster. She wasn't pleasing to the eye anymore at least not by societies definition of beauty.
There was no way she was ever going to have a boyfriend now! At seventeen years old, it shouldn't be something that she didn't have to worry about, but thanks to that idiot scientist who only wanted to use her for his own selfish purposes, she was stuck looking this way.
"You're not a freak," Lila spoke up as she sat down on her bed next to her friend.
Hearing her heart skip a beat, Elizabeth shook her head. "You're lying."
Sighing with defeat, Lila shrugged. "Sorry. Truth is, I don't know how to feel about this new appearance."
Frowning as she shook her head, Elizabeth slumped over a bit. "At least you're still here unlike Leanne and Tori; I can't believe they decided to cut me out of their lives. We've known each other since we were eleven."
"I know." Lila put her hand on Elizabeths' shoulder in a reassuring manner. "I'm sorry they didn't turn out to be the friends you needed."
"Whatever." Elizabeth grabbed at the ends of her hair and tugged before letting go. "I just want to look normal again."
"If I can just figure out how to control my new powers enough to stop the instant hair growth, then I can cut it to the length I want, then I can dye it back to brown or something. It'll take a lot of bleaching, but I can do it."
"Do you think a hairstylist would be willing to put up with that much effort?"
The knot in her stomach only grew worse; Elizabeth teared up and broke down crying!
"This isn't fair! Why did I have to be experimented on? Why did I have to become the only girl in the world with powers? I never asked for this! Why me? I just wanted one thing to be normal and it should have been my looks!"
Breaking down further, she felt the despair in the back of her mind.
"I don't even look like my parents anymore!"
Lila had no idea what to say anymore; what could she say to make her superpowered friend feel better? Her circumstances were so unique that the ability to empathize was greatly lacking.
No more words to say, Lila just leaned in close and hugged her friend as she let out gut-wrenching sobs as she finally let the weight of her new reality come crashing down around her.
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The Striker Series follows the story of Elizabeth Striker, who inherits her fathers powers at a young age, making her the first girl in the world to possess them as powers are a predominently male genetic trait.
To know more about her, check out Inherited Power on Amazon!
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