thanks for sharing your piece. the whole thing is about appearance, physical, emotional, perceived, & internal. as such it fit's that element of the prompt nicely. the character of Andrea has an internal conflict between what she objectively knows, and what she subjectively feels and this provides a nice dynamic, and also a good point on which to rest your story lesson.

I am working on the assumption it is a story and not non-fiction. if it is real, I hope you have not used your friends real name.