Lea was a teenage girl like all the others, except her family was poor. This was hard on her, specially, because in the bottom of her heart she wanted everything the other girls had. Yet, she was mature enough not to ask for anything. There was a thing she desired with all her will, though. Like all her classmates she was deeply and madly in love with Nat, the current teen heartthrob. He sang and danced, and he had the smile of a god. When Lea heard he would be coming to town she almost fainted. She had to be there! She begged and begged, until her mother gave up and bought her the cheapest ticket she could find. Lea's mother wasn't too eager about having her going alone, but buying one ticket had meant a huge economical effort, buying two would have meant not being able to eat for a month.
The day of the concert arrived, and Lea's mother took her to the venue. She made her daughter promise to wait for her and left her, excited and nervous, queueing. Lea couldn't believe she was about to see Nat. She was almost sure she would faint. The time passed fast and she quickly entered the venue, taking up a stop close to the stage, she fell into an oblivious state in which nothing mattered. Until Nat showed up on stage. At first she was shocked, starstruck, seeing him live for the first time. However, she had idealized him, and now that she saw him for real, she was disappointed. He wasn't as tall as she thought, his smile wasn't as bright, and neither his voice nor his dance moves where as she had expected. Lea wanted to cry, she started working her way out in the middle of the crowd of teenagers, she knew she would have to wait outside for her mother for hours, but she couldn't stand it anymore.
When she was finally able to breath fresh air, she felt dizzy. She sat on some stairs and saw some girls who were trying to get inside by all means.
-Don't do it. It's not worth it.- Lea advised them.
However, the girls didn't take it well. Of course it was worth it, they said, it was Nat. Lea tried to explain how Nat was only an illusion, but the other girls became terribly mad at her and started punching and kicking her. She tried to defend herself, but they outnumbered her and no one tried to help her. She could feel her bones breaking, a rib puncturing her left lung. Lea no longer asked for help, she simply hid her head with her arms and cried silent tears. Her mother found her like that a couple of hours later. She didn't ask what happened, she just rushed her daughter to the hospital. Lea battled for her life for days, just because she had told the truth. A truth no teenage girl wanted to hear.
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