ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Terry-Ann Adams is an author based in Eldorado Park, Gauteng. She spent her childhood playing with imaginary friends and writing poems, and when she was 12, wrote a mini memoir detailing her struggle to be accepted into mainstream schooling as a person with albinism. Her work is written in English and Afrikaans, and predominantly features coloured South Africans as its main characters.
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MATRIC DANCE
Laurelle, the day before
Don’t jella, vang tips. That’s what these girls need to understand. They can’t be naar that I am the most beautiful girl in the school, and now it’s going to be worse because I will be the Beyoncé of the banquet. Jassis, what do they then think? Not even the first princess comes close. I will be the winner by far, and all the girlies are going to choke.
I am Laurelle, the belle, and I am not going to let anyone and their petty jealousy ruin the most important night of my life. Even my mother knows she must come right. I don’t want any snaakse gedagtes tomorrow when we go to Lulu for my hair. I have three options for Lulu, she won’t struggle. My hair is glad so the style will fall into place. She can choose the up-style with the pearls or the loose curls like J-Lo or she can do the Kim Kardashian. I will look fantastic in any of those, and I have a face that goes with any hairstyle. My aunty always says, “Laurelle se gesig is gemaak vir enige hairstyle. Up-do, bob,
