Ooh To Be Perfect

ARIANNA'S POV:

The next morning I jilted awake from my alarm clock, ringing aggressively, my phone stuck on my face from Las night intense searching, "fuck 6:30 oh God"I said rushing to the bathroom. while wearing my uniform I hear car horns, which makes me to pause " no way"I said looking out of my window and behold it's Clarisse "bitch what the fuck are you still doing shirtless" she shouted sending me back to putting on my clothes and rushing downstairs " hey" I said waving.

"I'm telling you Clarisse it's fishy and very disturbing"I said while showing her Valerie's page on I*******m ."yh she does look like you, and she does pilates too"

" i know right it's like she's just trying so hard to make me look like an imitation, there's only one me right.? I said obviously panicking

"look the color of her eyes, it's different than yours"Clarisse said

pointing at a picture Valerie took at the beach zooming in I saw the difference her eye color is brown but mine is black it's not really noticable only people that are close to her would know

"see now stop panicking". Clarisse said trying to calm me down "and she's good but she's not better than you" I turn to her when I heard those words asking myself are those supposed to be motivational quotes "girl are you kidding me, she's a fucking pro Clarisse a fucking pro, I can't lose I need to be the best because the best gets sponsors and the best get to keep their career, my whole life depends on this if I'm not a perfect I'm literally nothing just a girl working shifts on different restaurants everyday just to make sure she doesn't starve, I mean the only way I'm able to school here is through ice skating. Fuck fuck fuck fuuck my life is disgusting "I said gulping down my juice " look Ari I get your frustrations and your point but you are beautiful if the ice skating doesn't work you could always get a rich guy to fall in love with you" Clarisse said smiling, I looked at her with disgust and rolled my eyes "okayyyy I will help you dig more into, my brother owes me, you need to know what exactly you're going up against at least "she said taking my juice and going up to the library perfection that what I'm up against I thought to myself while looking at her skating videos

My life has been on ice since I started breathing, my mom wasn't a skater she was literally scared of ice, my dad was never in the picture he left us when I was five years old after coming with me to my skating competition, I won we celebrated,then he said he wanted to go greet a friend and then he never came back, it was funny at first then I started to miss him now I rarely think about him, me and my mom has been together since then. she owned a little Cafe restaurant where she sold coffee and tea and lemonade and drinks with snacks basically to go breakfasts for people rushing to work, we were fine living together I go for rehearsals and win more gold medals, she works and supports me loudly until last year December,she got diagnosed with terminal cancer it was a roughest time of my life,the doctors are still trying to save her. that was three months ago now I'm just fighting to survive, working both online and manual jobs to meet up with my needs but thanks to skating I've been schooling through scholarships and sponsors now all that sacrifice and pain and years is about to be in vain because a Nepo baby decided to look like me.

"Ariiiii "Clarisse yells my name from upstairs " come over here you gotta see this" she said waving her hands signaling me to hurry up.

Clarisse typically my soulmate. she has been with me since we were 10 years old never left my side since then, her parents and my mom are friends. Clarisse is very intelligent she won gold medals in quizzes and academic marathons, sometimes I didn't know what made her more attractive, her brains or her beauty. " look!!" she said showing me a video of Valerie Stones, the headlines The Valerie Fall, it happens two months ago . a wrong split and she broke her right leg I look at Clarisse " this changes everything" I said feeling a little bit relived, she's not perfect she's just good at pretending to be

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back at home, I go back to my practice room to rehearsal. I can't lose no matter the cost I need to win , playing the music and doing the routine over and over and over again till 8 o'clock in the night then I get my phone to practice my pilates. a flexible body is a relaxed one try to feel light " the music plays trying to soothe the mind , to soothe my mind. but Valerie's videos keeps playing in my head, that fall, in front of the crowd. "I know right it's scary imagine failure, the shock, it took her months to recover, did someone sabotage her, she was perfect, or maybe she just cracked, how will her parents feel, what steps did she miss, after all those rehearsals, and she still failed " the voices of people who witnessed it, no it's in my head I said taking a deep breath and increasing the volume I won't fall, I won't fall, I won't fall, I won't fall," I kept repeating this words and a ping interrupted me it's Clarisse "Arianna check your I*******m account inbox we're being spied on" my stomach sinks what I quickly open my I*******m page and behold an unknown device linked to my account, my heart thugs louder I could hear it more than I could hear myself breath, what do they want, who are they.