All that is skin-deep
READING AGE 18+
All her life she never felt like she ever belonged, well not until she transitioned—it felt thriving, freeing and truly her.
But being a black trans woman in a conservative African country, a neighborhood at best on bringing her down and a sorry excuse of a friend group.
Her mental health couldn’t downgrade any more nor could the constant rumors or prayers her ‘Loving’ father forced upon her behind her mother’s back.
Her mother had enough of her sorry excuse of an ex husband treating her daughter like s**t for being herself. The thought didn’t pass their minds twice not did they rethought it as they packed their bags, moved to England in the United Kingdom.
Opening up a small pastry shop— Tiny treats—in town, business bloomed. And Petra being offered a full paid scholarship at a local university, could not have made her mother’s decision any more ‘the best plan of all time’ that it had already been.
Yet during her sophomore year at university, a new face pops up among the usual faces she is used to by now.
A Russian computer engineering major that could most possible pass for a famous model.
Different and intriguing mostly luring Petronella into a different world, giving her a fondness of love—being loved.
She had never been loved by anyone more less a girl and it scared her—mostly because she fell too.
Unfold
Nat had both her hands hidden away in the pocket of her red hoodie as she walked down the sidewalk—a route she had known too well in the past month—all the familiar shops, lamp posts had been engraved in her head—she had been walking down this street every Saturday morning, whenever she could, it had been an accidental occurrence the first time ……
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