The Body Eclectic

Title: The Body Eclectic

Author: Carla

Fandom: Popular

Rating: G

Disclaimers: The only thing of value I own is my cat, Cider so if TPTB that own Popular and its characters want him they are free to try and get him. After all there is only so much blood you can get from a stone.

Summary: Brooke gains some new understanding about loving her body.

Archiving: Ask and I shall be most happy to share. Flattered too.

Note: The idea for this very, very short story came to me after a conversation I recently had with my best friend. I struggle everyday with loving my own body and yet I have had lovers of all sizes and shapes and loved their bodies all the while being highly uncomfortable with my own.

Sometimes the only way you can learn to love your own body is to love another's. I love to look at her, the rich curves of her body so unlike my own. There have been days, months even years of my life when I have despised my own body to the point of illness. Almost death, truthfully. She moves smoothly, gracefully all the time. It's as if she moves to a rhythm all her own. I see it when we practice our cheers, I saw so clearly, blindingly clear when she tried out for the team. She is simply lovely.

I have no doubt that I would never have had her courage. To try out for the Glamazons, had I been in her place. To know that people would jeer. I would have lacked the confidence.

Sometimes we have occasion to touch. I cherish those times. Her skin is so soft and underneath it all I can feel her, I don't know, solidness. And in my room at night I wonder what it would be like to bury my face in between her breasts. To be enveloped in her arms, to run my hands over the valleys of her body and in my growing lust for her I have come to the realization that my body truly is beautiful. Just as her body is truly beautiful to me, just as it is.

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