For three days, the girl didn’t answer the question that had appeared beneath her picture.

At first, she thought she would forget about it. After all, people had written plenty of other things: compliments, simple questions, and a few remarks she couldn’t understand why anyone had bothered to make. But that one short sentence stayed with her. She would open the picture, read it, move on to something else, and find herself returning to it a little later.

Do you really look like that?

She tried to decide whether it was a compliment or an insult. Perhaps the person who had written it thought she was so beautiful that it was difficult to believe she really looked that way.

Or perhaps it meant exactly the opposite.

She didn’t like that possibility.