Anna Belle Lee sits on her full sheetless mattress and blogs and tumbles. She's wearing red eyeshadow with non-waterproof mascara. She cried two hours earlier, looked at her smeared makeup in the mirror and thought about her personality. She's unsatisfied with the brown eyebrow pencil she purchased from Bartells. In her opinion, her hair is so freakishly blonde that she remains expressionless unless she feminizes her eyebrows. She's looking for help on the internet. Going through the tumblr hashtag, she's upset over people's misunderstanding and misuse of feminist makeupping. She replies to ******.tumblr.com:
Your face is not a canvass, it is a stage. Crying/smudging your makeup is like a feminist form of expression/make up removal.
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Court is adjourned. Desiree sighs in desperation of the utter boredom she feels. She puts her sunglasses back on. The judge had asked her to remove them before commencing trial. She walks down the aisle past indignant expressions a mix of shock and horror. She sends a mass text. All she wants is a fucking blunt already.
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"I don't even get what you're still showing up for." Lindsay laments Desiree's dilemma with a slight-mouth gesture and clicks the "don't judge me" Chris Brown track to stream. Lindsay passes Desiree the blunt. "Like, I know you're the one who fucked up initally but why can't you do something you actually believe in if they want you to do community service?" I know, that's what I'm saying, agrees Desiree.
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Adrian sets his keys down on the red-tile kitchen island. His wife comes up from behind and places her hands on his shoulders. He sighs. He listens to the footsteps of his children trotting up the stairs. "I just can't believe it. I can't. I can't forgive her." Pilar shakes her head. "The look on her face, like she didn't care, the amount of disrespect for my mother!" Teresa attempts to bring down Adrian's arms. "No I'm angry baby! I have been insulted. My mother, Teresa, MY MOTHER, SHE MURDERED MY MOTHER. She got in the car, DRUNK, HIT my mother and now she sits there with that look on her face like we're wasting her time, IT'S A DISRESPECT TO MY MOTHER!"
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Frankie grips his humid pint glass. "I agree Adrian, I agree. I fucking agree. It's messed up." The bartender glances at Adrian. Adrian waves two fingers her way. "It's not right, man. It's not right. The little whore!" Frankie chugs his beer and slams it on the bar. Two whiskey shots and two heinekens are set in front of them. "She commited a sin, a crime, she KILLS YOUR MOTHER, JANIE AND BABO'S GRANDMOTHER, AND SHE THINKS SHE CAN GET AWAY WITH IT BY DOING COMMUNITY SERVICE @ULTRA!?
Anna Belle sets her cursor on a link. "Look at this girl omg I would have done my makeup give me the chance." She reads about Desiree Hernandez. She agrees. She could have made a much better statement with sapphire blue lipstick.
