freckles

[nathalia]

I found freckles.
On me!
Close to my elbows on both arms although there are more on my right arm than on my left one.
I've noticed them a few weeks ago when I was showering, but I was sure it was just dirt or something. Now my parents and my sister have confirmed my greatest fears. These things are my freckles. That's so, so scary.
I want them to go away, NOW.
I don't want to have freckles.
I have a few light freckles on my nose and my cheeks, very hard to see if you don't look very closely; but these on my arms are very noticable and somehow they scare me because I can't figure out how they could possibly have come.
I spent quite a while in the sun in Fortaleza and I actually got tanned for once and maybe this is the reason for my freckles. It's really scary that I actually have a tan because usually I don't get tanned at all, I have such fair skin that whenever I tell teachers that I'm not feeling well, they agree with me immediatelly, saying that I look quite pale and sick (even when I'm skipping).
But now, when I wanted toi skip Spanish on Friday, the hag as I like to call her, told me I didn't look sick at all. For the first time someone told me that.
Yeah, I'm not tanned or anything, but when you compare my actual skin colour to the tanned areas (which would be everything but the parts covered by my bikini), it's quite a difference.
I wonder if the Fortaleza sun is to blame for the freckles.