She liked to dye her hair in all kinds of colors and style them into all sorts of eye-catching and outrageous designs.
The poor ears suffered the worst, as she had pierced them no fewer than seven or eight times, turning the once-smooth edges into a sieve-like sheet of holes. Yet, she still felt inexplicably excited about the dazzling earrings glittering around her ears.
In her thrill, she even wished she had a hole on her nose to hang a shiny nose ornament. But she eventually decided not to after one of her roommates who grew up on a farm said that only cows in farms pierced their noses for the purpose of being led by rope.
The reason behind her rebelliousness and transformation was that she had fallen in love with a senior, a senior who was passionate about his rock music career.
Well, Gem Atkinson was not the first man she had admired.
Indeed, it was Mr. Rocky who was.
