Brain damage

Esther was a smart, stunning and independent girl who had no problems dating whoever she wanted, often making the first move herself.

One day, she started having an interest for Jason, a young man in his late 20s with a well established career. Jason, however, had a fiancee, Julia, a girl belonging to the high society of their city. Esther knew about it but didn’t care, she wanted this guy so she went for it. The two started dating until Julia found out about them. Her pride was hurt but she was ready to fight back. She paid a team of surgeons working in a private aesthetic clinic owned by her family to prepare some extensive procedures to drastically alter her appearance. One day, when Esther and Jason were supposed to have a date, Julia forced Jason to skip the date at the last minute with an excuse and went there herself instead. Esther was really stunning, she had to admit, this would take some effort. She called her aside with an excuse and injected her with a sort of rape drug which made her obedient. Then she easily convinced her to follow her to an abandoned warehouse in the outskirts of the city.

Julia ordered her surgeons to take away Esther’s scalp with her luxurious hair and to replace it with natural black and very curly hair, originally belonging to a black girl who died at a young age. Then, they had to cover Esther’s irises in black pigment. With dull brown eyes and a thick curly mane she would have some more trouble with guys now, Julia thought.

“What have you done to me? My eyes! My hair! I look ridiculous! Hey, the wig won’t come off!”

“Haha, it’s not a wig, I transplanted that hair on you!”

“What? You crazy bitch! My hair! Oh nooo! Wait, you are Jason’s girlfriend! Ok, I’m sorry for having cheated on your boyfriend, I promise I’ll never see him again! Please give my hair back!”

“That’s not enough, I wanna make sure you are never gonna attract his attention anymore, you have still got nice facial features and a smooth skin, that has to change. While you are staying here in my cellar, you’ll have to eat whatever I feed you with, including a mix of cocaine and a permanent melanin stimulant. Once you’ll be addicted, you’ll beg for it until your skin will be as dark as it gets, haha!”

“I’ll never give in to cocaine!”

“We’ ll see about that!”

A few days later, Esther gave in to her new addiction. The effect of the substance, together with some more facial cosmetic surgery to make her look more ethnic completely changed her appearence.

After a week, Esther was given a mirror to check her new look.

“Aah, my skin! My face! I look so dark! Shit, I look like a black girl! You bastard, free me now!”

“No yet, you need to get a bit darker!”

One month later Esther’s skin reached a gorgeous dark brown tone. Gone was the glamorous white girl with light skin, coloured eyes and straight hair. Not that she was’t beautiful now, she was actually pretty hot but she would never attract the same kind of boys she used to.

“Noo, I’m even darker now!”

“This is your new skin colour, better get used to it, haha!”

Not satisfied, Julia took her to the cellar of the warehouse.

“Hey, stop now, you have already ruined my life, what are you going to do now?”

“You are right, you’re already pretty fucked up. Now that you are a black girl, Jason won’t even look at you but I’m having so much fun I’m not done yer messing up with your life! Your knowledge would still allow you to get a well payed job, that has to go, sorry! Be ready to embrace your new existence as an uneducated black girl!”

Then Julia tied Esther to a chair and mounted a device on her head meant to perform some electroshock on her poor brain.

“Noo, please stop! I’ll do whatever you want, you can make me darker, or fatter, whatever but leave my brain as it is!”

“Nope!”

Then Esther suddently passed out.

After a few seconds, Esther passed out. When she regained conscience, she was still there. Julia was smiling at her. “Let’s attest your brain damage now! When did the US gain independence? How much is 16 times 16?”

“I… I dunno!” said Esther, bursting in tears.

“Sounds pretty damaged, haha! What’s your name by the way?”

“E… Estha?”

“Haha, pretty complicated to remember, right, huh?” “Lashona fits you better!”

A few months later, Lashona had readjusted to her new life as a black girl. She moved to a different state, worked in a McDonalds and was dating a black guy, uneducated as she now was and had begun to attend a black church.

One day, Jason, having found out about the whole thing, left Julia for good and started searching Esther, now Lashona. He somehow managed to find her, he texted her and they met in the shopping mall.

“Hey, I’m Jason, listen, I know what my girlfriend did to you, we need to reverse that!”

Lashona looked away with her big brown eyes. “You have to let me go” she said.

“How can you say that? We have to try to revert what she did to you! You must be furious!”

She turned her head towards him in such a typically black woman-way. Jesus, what had they done to her? Was she getting adjusted to her new role in society? – Jason thought. What was left of the arrogant and charming white girl she used to be?

“Listen, she did too much to me to be reversed, my skin, my hair, my eyes, my brain. It’ll never go away. Please, forget me. I also need to forget myself, who I was, to survive. Now I’m a black uneducated girl. I’m still hot, luckily, although in a different way. I’m more humble and definitely closer to God than I ever was. Please leave me now and don’t come back. Besides – and a spark of her old self came back in her eyes – black guys are pretty fun in bed!”

“Jesus, Esther, don’t tell me you are sleeping with a… That’s disgusting, I’m done with you!”

So Jason left never to come back and Lashona lived as she could, resigned to her new fate and feeling more and more part of the black community she now belonged to.