1. You've been working all summer, and can't remember the last time you've been outdoors. Seeking the summer sun, you plan a weekend beach trip with your friends.
2. The feeling of soft sand on your feet is what you imagine heaven to feel like. You eagerly lie your towel out and apply sunscreen (but not too much because you want to get some color).
3. After only a few minutes, you start to feel the hot sun burning your skin, so you head for a dip in the ocean.
4. You ride the waves for a bit until you are overcome with boredom and ready to be back on land.
5. You forget however, that reapplying sunscreen is necessary after contact with water, and unknowingly spend the next few hours in the sun unprotected.
6. As your day at the beach comes to an end, you feel pretty confident that you got a little color. Only to find out from your friends that said color resembles a ripe tomato more than anything else.
7. You try to get into the car only to discover that you literally can not. Your skin won't allow it. While you were enjoying life, your skin was battling the sun. And it lost. And it became very sensitive to any kind of contact with any kind of material.
8. You complain to your friends for the duration of the drive home, while they make jokes at your expense. You laugh along but are secretly scared that you may never ever recover and will have to live with this pain forever.
9. You realize how much you took your body for granted as you try to make basic movements like reaching for things and taking steps.
10. You freak out when you think about all your upcoming plans and how your inability to move or appear human will effect these plans.
11. You attempt to take a shower, only to learn that the pain you'd been experiencing up until this point was simply childs play. Although the water is set to the coldest possible temperature, you can't help but feel like it has been boiling for hours, just waiting for this opportunity right now, to scorch your skin.
12. You get out of the shower as fast as possible, and decide to air dry in order to avoid rough, scratchy towels. You search all over the bathroom for aloe, or some kind of sunburn relief, and use up the entire bottle that you find, wishing you had 10 more.
13. You examine your naked self in the mirror and find that not only are you even more visibly burnt after your shower, but you are also unevenly burnt and have splotches of white in the most random places.
14. You search for clothing that can both be worn in public and also not touch your skin. Realizing that kind of clothing does not exist, you resort to sweats and hope that your friends won't make you go out anywhere anytime soon.
15. Of course, the world doesn't revolve around you, so they end up dragging you out where you have to insist to every new person you meet that you don't usually look this way.
16. You tell yourself you will never do this to your self again, and hope that you remember this pain next summer.
