The laughter followed her as she walked down the hallway at school, heading outside because school had ended. They laughed at her ugliness, all of those beautiful people who didn't have a care in the world. Her name was Regina Ungle, and all the people who made fun of her called her Regina Ugly. Regina knew she was ugly; every time she stared in a mirror she saw the ugliness and it made her want to scream.

"Hey, Ugly, want to go out with me?" asked the cutest boy in school, Derrick Ligon.

"No, leave me alone!" Regina screamed, tears clouding her vision.

"Look, the poor little ugly girl is crying. It makes my heart break," Derrick taunted, and everyone else in the hallway laughed.

"Go away! Just go away!" Regina shouted, and she ran as fast as she could to the bathroom, the laughter following her until she was in the bathroom.

Regina wiped the tears out of her eyes with a paper towel and stared at her reflection in the mirror. She hated to look at her reflection, but she knew she had to so she could be able to know how ugly she was, and not get mad at other people for making fun of her.

Regina had tanned skin and blond hair that went halfway down her back, bright blue eyes and a perfect white smile, and was slender and five foot four. Regina had tried to get herself to become pretty. No matter how much she ate, she stayed skinny and whenever she tried to make her hair brown the blond came back through the dye, and Regina didn't like how her hair felt when she didn't use shampoo in it so she couldn't get the messy and greasy look that was stylish. She could not imagine not brushing her teeth or flossing them; Regina was obsessed with being clean, so she could have the beautiful yellow teeth everybody had. Regina loved being outside, so her skin stayed tan. She wanted to change a little to become beautiful, but she wouldn't completely change who she was.

As Regina sneered at her reflection, the door opened and the most popular girl in school, Kayla Phillips, came into the bathroom.

Kayla was beautiful. She was as white as paper with pimples covering her face and had short brown hair that was always messy and greasy. She was almost as fat as a baby whale, but that made her look even more stunningly pretty. Her teeth were yellow and black, and some had cracks in them.

Regina panicked when she saw Kayla, trying to hide in a stall before Kayla saw her, but it was too late.

"Look, it's Regina Ugly!" Kayla shouted, and suddenly ten more girls who were almost exact copies of Kayla in looks and personality were in the bathroom.

"What are you doing, Regina Ugly, trying to make yourself look uglier?" asked Elise.

"No," Regina said softly.

"Did the mirror break when you looked into it?" questioned Maria.

"Does it look broken to you?" Regina shot back, finding a tiny bit of courage to stand up to these girls deep within her.

"Maybe you weren't looking in it long enough," jeered Elise.

"Let's make her look in it longer!" suggested Amy loudly.

"Yeah, I'll hold her down," Kayla volunteered, and she walked up to Regina.

Kayla grabbed Regina's bony shoulders and pushed the blonde girl forward until Regina's nose was almost touching the mirror. Regina closed her eyes, but Kayla said,

"Keep them open, Ugly. Look at your ugliness!"

Regina opened her eyes again and stared at herself in the mirror, waiting for this torture to be over.

"How much longer till the mirror breaks?" asked Nora.

"Not much longer," Kayla replied.

Kayla pushed Regina forward, making Regina's head crack the mirror a little. Blood started dripping out of the cut.

"Wow, I knew she was ugly but I didn't know she was so ugly she could actually break the mirror!" exclaimed Lizzie.

All the girls were laughing about how Regina had "broken the mirror with her ugliness." They all decided to ignore the fact Regina had actually broken the mirror with her head.

"Leave me alone!" Regina shouted like she had said to Derrick not too long ago.

Regina ran through the crowd of girls and into the hall, the tears back in her eyes. She ran straight into her best, and only friend's, stomach.

Kyle Burtfass, called Kyle Buttface by his peers, was ugly like Regina. He was tall and muscular with blond hair, green eyes, and a white smile. Unlike Regina, he didn't care about being handsome and still worked out and ate healthy food even though it prevented him from being attractive.

"Regina, what happened? Where's this cut from?" Kyle asked, gently touching the cut on his friend's forehead.

"Kyle, it was the pretty girls' fault. It was so horrible!" Regina said, her voice muffled by Kyle's shirt she had buried her head in.

"Awww, look Regina Ugly and Kyle Buttface are together. Look how cute they are!" said Derrick, making everyone left in the hallway laugh.

"You can tell me outside what happened," Kyle murmured.

He and Regina walked hand in hand outside. They stopped at Kyle's car and Regina climbed onto the hood of the beat-up, old red car. She sat there while she told her best friend what happened. When she finished Kyle nodded and said,

"Sounds a little like what happened to me a few days ago. Reg, I know they may hurt your feelings almost every day but you just have to learn to ignore them; that's the only way you'll get through high school. Now, come into the car; I'll give you a ride home."

Regina nodded and slipped into the car. She loved talking to Kyle because he was the only one who understood her. Not even her mom understood why Regina was upset so often. Regina's mom had been almost an exact copy of Regina when she went to high school in 2005. She was the prom queen because of her looks, and expected Regina to become the same. What Regina's mom didn't know was in this age when watching TV and eating junk food all day was in, and playing sports and being outside was only done by geeks, Regina didn't stand a chance.