((Authors Note Hey! My first fic ever, so don't flame TOO hard. If anyone actually likes it, tell me why, and stuff, so I can write it down in my handy notebook, for later references. Enjoy!))

Writing Assignment:
- What is beauty?
- Your opinion?
- What represents beauty?
- What is real beauty, and what is fake beauty?

etc. etc. etc.
Due by the end of the year.

Homework: Use the notebook handed out to you, all year round, to write your thoughts on beauty, observe how your perspective of beauty changes, throughout the year. This notebook is to be used to help with your final assignment. Ideas on how to start your notebook:
- Your appearance.
- Your opinion on you appearance.
- If you could, what would you change about your appearance?
- Do you consider yourself beautiful? If not, what would you consider beautiful?

This notebook does not have to be handed in with your assignment.

Have fun!

Miss Grant.

"An assignment on beauty? What kind of crap is that?"

"I know!"

"You gonna do it?"

"Yeah, well it's 80 of our writing mark..."

"Yeah, and Miss Grant'll be 'disappointed' in you. You're such a teacher's pet."

"Hey! Just because I care about my future... "

"I think it's a cool idea."

"Shut up, fatty."

"Yeah, what would you know about beauty, Moo?"

"God, Math is in 5 minutes, and I didn't even get to change my makeup..."

Sept. 15
Beauty Journal.
Tina.
5 feet tall.
185 pounds.
Brownish hair.
Brown eyes.
Fat.

My opinion of my appearance? Um, I'm fat? I guess I already knew that. Not that hard to miss. My opinion? What the hell? My opinion? You can't have an opinion about being fat. You just are. It sucks I guess. But everyone knows that. What is this? Well, I guess I hate my appearance. If you're fat, you're miserable. The only time that someone pays attention to you, is to call you fat. You're lonely. My OPINION on it? That's just dumb. You can't have an opinion on something like this. You live with it.

What I would change about my appearance? What kind of goddamn STUPID question is that? God. What do you think? I'd change the fact that I was a fat kid. Then my life wouldn't be screwed. And they lived happily ever after. Right. Never going to happen.

Do I consider myself frigging beautiful? What? HELLO? WHAT IS THIS CRAP? Of course I'm beautiful. I'm the damn teen queen. The 190 pound teen queen.

What do I consider beautiful. Kira. Cake. Kira. Chocolate bars. Kira. Chips. Kira is the most damn beautiful, popular girl ever. Her life is a dream.

Why the hell am I doing this? Why? So I'm a 200 pound fatty, why do I need to write it down? Miss Grant said you don't have to have it in. WHY!?

Okay fine.

I admit it.

That made me feel.

A tiny,
teeny
bit,

better.

Well, as better as a 203 pound loser can be.

Kira
Five and a half feet tall.
Green eyes.
Blond hair.
105 pounds. Or 103? of appearance. Well, I guess its ok. Its nice being beautiful. Most people like you. But it isn't great. You always have to be beautiful. You can't gets zits, or eat brownies, or become ugly. Or else EVERYONE will notice, and bug you. Oh, look, Miss Beautiful didn't wash her hair. Her nails aren't painted. Her make up isn't right. Even your boyfriend wants you to be perfect forever. It's damn frustrating. Oh, and everyone thinks I'm a blond bimbo. I can't think. Not around my bf not around friends, parents. All I'm allowed to think about is make up and hair. Let everyone else handle the important stuff. And see how I mentioned that MOST people like me? Well the people who don't make my life that much more annoying. So it's ok. But not great.

What would I change about my appearance? Well, I actually wish I could be a little plainer. Not ugly like the big T, but more like Ashley. Not ugly, not fat, not thin, not beautiful. Just plainer. That would be nice; maybe people would lay off me.

What do I consider beautiful? Well, I am, or so everyone tells me. But what I think is beautiful was the ocean at Grandma's cottage. And the trees. And the cliffs. The wind. The freeness. Oh, and everyone thinks I'm a dumb blond. I can't think. Not around my bf not around friends, parents. All I'm allowed to think about is make up and hair. Let everyone else handle the important stuff. And see how I mentioned that MOST people like me? Well the people who don't make my life that much more annoying. So it's ok. But not great.

Ashley
4'9"
110 pounds
Black straight hair.
Dark brown eyes.

HM, let's see the opinion of my appearance. Well, I'm not ugly. I'm not pretty either. Definitely not. I'm not fat, not skinny. I'm just plain, I guess. It isn't too great. No one notices you. Not like Kira. Everyone always pays attention to her. She's so lucky. It isn't the most horrible thing being plain, invisible, I guess. But it's lonely. It's in between.

What I would change about my appearance? I want to be pretty. Not Kira pretty, cause even though she's popular, she's blonde, and I don't want to be blonde pretty. I want to be gypsy pretty. Just-tumbled-around-in-the-grass-and-still-look-great pretty. Ya. That would be great.

What do I consider beautiful. Well, I just said. I like the gypsy-beautiful look. But, something else I think is beautiful is when your walking around a mall, browsing, and you see a couple, sharing a coffee, browsing around, doing couple things. And giving each other looks. Love looks. Wanna-kiss-you-right-now looks. It just makes me so happy to see that. It really is beautiful.