Faye stared up at a bright blue sky that wasn't there and listened to a
dozen conversations about nothing in particular. She breathed in
deeply, savouring the scent of the freshly cut grass she wasn't really
lying on. Although she was actually lying on her bed, her senses were
all being hijacked by the Digitac player lying next to her as it
replayed the sensory input of Helen Fryer, one of the country's most
popular actresses. She saw and heard everything that Helen did, but
she was helpless to try and direct her where she wanted to go. She was
just an observer, albeit a very intimate one.
Faye felt someone squeeze her hand, and turned to face him. Naturally,
it was James. He had the kind of rugged good looks that were currently
considered attractive by most of the girls in her class. His bleached
blonde hair was just long enough to get in the way of his hazel eyes,
and whenever she kissed him, his stubble felt like sandpaper. She
wasn't quite sure if she had a type yet, but if she did, James
definitely wasn't it.
"I love you, James," she felt herself say.
"I love you too, Helen," said James. His smile widened, and Faye felt
hers do the same. He leaned towards her. She reciprocated, closing
her eyes. As their lips met, she started to open her mouth, letting
him separate her lips with his tongue.
_Eww_, thought Faye as she opened her eyes and groped around for her
Digitac player's stop button, overwhelmed by the two sets of images
competing in her head. She pressed it just in time. Suddenly, the
bright blue sky was replaced with the various posters of female rock
stars that lined her bedroom's walls. The chattering of passers-by
came to an abrupt end, and in its place she could hear the dull murmur
of her parents' old fashioned flatscreen television downstairs.
Looking down at herself, Faye sighed wistfully. At least she'd slipped
out of the unfashionable blazer, blouse, polyester skirt and opaque
black tights of her school uniform. Instead, she was wearing a light
pink spaghetti top over a padded bra--as if _that_ was fooling
anybody--and a blue denim miniskirt, clothes she wouldn't mind actually
being seen in, but that didn't change the fact that the other girls were
right. She _was_ flat-chested.
She reached into her bedside drawer, lifted up a stack of glossy
magazines and pulled out the Digitac disc she'd been too embarrassed to
tell anyone about.
She read the disc's title: _The Kelly Travis Workout Experience_. It
had come free with a packet of cereal, the kind that wasn't covered in
sugar. It was meant to show you that working out at a Kelly Travis gym
wasn't as difficult as you thought it was. Faye ejected the Helen
Fryer disc and tossed it onto the bed next to the player, then slid the
Kelly Travis disc in and pressed play.
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