Written for Blog-a-rythm
Sentence Prompt: It hurts no more
Her eyes scrunched with pain and she swallowed a
scream! She knew the first time would hurt, but SO much, she hadn’t imagined.
Almost all the girls in school had lost theirs, giggling
smugly as they huddled together, discussing every minute detail.
She felt so
left out when she saw them, but her courage gave away when she imagined her
Mothers wrath. She would always be a Baby where her mother was concerned, but
she was a young woman now, she reassured herself.
And after endless sleepless nights and thoughts she
decided to go ahead and do it, and here she was, silently chanting ‘It hurts no
more! It hurts no more!’ as the parlor girl applied yet another layer of hot
wax, covered it with a strip of cloth and ripped out a patch of hair from her
arm.