Lazy Alone Different: use these three words

Freddy hated being different. It was bad enough having the only white skin among them all – skin which actually gleamed with a pale luminescence to make sure he was really seen – but his long nose, too, was unlike anyone else’s. His hair was blue, straight, falling in curls – curls! – to his hips. He wished it was brown like the others, and not so, well, pretty!

He supposed he could try and find someone to help him do something about it, although what they could do, he had no idea. Besides, while...