Тихий омут

Kto iz devochek ne mechtaet bytʹ krasavit͡seĭ? Takoĭ neobyknovennoĭ, chtoby vse ogli͡adyvalisʹ i voskhishchalisʹ! Navernoe, vse mechtai͡ut.Vera ne mechtala. Ona mechtala statʹ… obyknovennoĭ. Nezametnoĭ v tolpe takikh zhe obyknovennykh. Takoĭ, na kotorykh ne ogli͡adyvai͡utsi͡a. Potomu chto ona rodilasʹ takoĭ strashnenʹkoĭ, chto mama plakala, a vrachi otvodili glaza. I rosla, privykai͡a k chuzhim vzgli͡adam, - udivlennym, neodobritelʹnym, zhalostlivym, brezglivym. Ti͡azhelo zhitʹ v t͡sentre takogo vnimanii͡a.A kogda vdrug stala neveroi͡atnoĭ krasavit͡seĭ - nichego ne izmenilosʹ. Opi͡atʹ ona okazalasʹ v t͡sentre vnimanii͡a, i khotʹ vzgli͡ady teperʹ byli voskhishchennye, oshelomlennye, zhadnye, zavistlivye, zhiznʹ okazalasʹ niskolʹko ne legche. Tem bolee, chto vzgli͡adami delo ne ogranichivalosʹ… Mnogie videli v neĭ dobychu. Poėtomu eĭ prishlosʹ nauchitʹsi͡a zashchishchatʹsi͡a.

Which of the girls does not dream of being a beauty? So extraordinary that everyone would look around and admire! Probably, everyone dreams.Vera did not dream. She dreamed of becoming... ordinary. Unnoticeable in a crowd of the same ordinary people. The kind that people don't look back at. Because she was born so ugly that her mother cried and the doctors looked away. And she grew up getting used to other people's looks — surprised, disapproving, pitiful, disgusted. It's hard to live in the center of such attention.And when she suddenly became an incredible beauty, nothing changed. Once again, she found herself in the center of attention, and although the glances were now admiring, stunned, greedy, envious, life turned out to be no easier. Moreover, it was not limited to looks... many saw her as prey. So she had to learn how to defend herself.