One to Watch

by Kate Stayman-London

It hurts to have strangers echoing the worst things I’ve ever believed about myself.

Girl, same 😑

Going on a first date can be scary for anyone, but I find that for me, natural insecurities can spiral into an echo chamber of all the horrible things society has ever implied (or outright declared!) about my fatness.

Bea’s breath was shallow. “And now?” “Now I think the only indefensible action would be to let you go.” Then his hands were in her hair and he was kissing her, a hard, fast release and there was nothing false about it, nothing pretend and nothing safe, swirling laughter and panic and comfort and free fall and every, every second captured on the whirring cameras, their bodies warm and intertwined against the chill spring air. It felt like terror. It felt like freedom. It felt like the beginning.

I SHRIEKED SO EFFING LOUD OMG 😱