I once was the most beautiful man in the town. All who looked at me would fall to there knees at the sight of me, I thought I deserved that attention because I was the hottest in the whole state. If not the country. So I submitted a application to a modeling agency so more could see the beauty that is me, a shock to no one it was excepted and they gave me a gig almost overnight. From there I got more and more gigs and my ego got bigger and bigger. I was living the high life, I thought I was untouchable.

*Boom*

“this just in, samuel O’Clair has been found in the explosion of his new Lamborghini. It seems he was showing off his new car, and someone else wanted to see a different kind of show.”

After I regained consciousness I was in the hospital and two detectives were there to tell me they found proof of someone tinkering with my engine and attached a Bomb that would explode if the engine got hot enough. I could not believe what they were telling me, I didn’t know what to say. I knew I has some haters but no one who would do this.

None of that could have compared to what I saw when I looked in the mirror. My face was covered in bandages but I could still see that my face was not what it looked like before. It was not just my face though, I had burns on my arms, my chest,? and they sadly couldn’t save my left leg because it was broken to no repair from the crash after the explosion and the other was broken as well.

I had spent all of my life looking the best out of all people around me, to now having a body that is burnt to the point of no recognition of who I was before. I hated it, I thought I was worthless and ugly and that I was not worthy of existence anymore.

Until I met Mai, she was the first person who looked at me like I was not someone to pity or to be grossed out by silence the accident. I didn’t want to talk to her because I thought she was pitying me for validation of doing something good for someone who troubled, but I was wrong she was truly that kind of person. So we started dating and since I couldn’t imagine going out in public we did dates at her apartment or mine and everything was going really well, but I still couldn’t put off my insecurities and I told her that If she wanted to she could just go and I wouldn’t blame her for leaving me. What she told me changed what I thought of myself completely.

“Why would I want to leave you? If you think I would leave you for your burns or that you don’t want to go out to dinner, or that you never let me see anything but you face uncovered. No, I will not leave you. I am your best friend I am your girlfriend. I love you for you, burns and all.”

Her telling me that was something I didn’t know I needed to hear. So from there on I started not feeling so insecure, even though they were and still are there I feel so much more comfortable and confident in our relationship.

I used to not feel comfortable enough to look at myself. Now when I look in the mirror I see the beauty of the person I’ve become. All thanks to my now beautiful wife and daughter.