Touch Me While I Taste You

Chapter 2

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Arabella Rivera 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For an entire hour, I had occupied myself by rearranging the books on my desk over and over. It was not like I had a tendency to be an organized freak. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was just that, the thought of leaving high school in a few more months made me a little antsy. Okay, a lot. I was literally thinking of every possible bad scenario. One where there was a stack of books burying me or two getting a B on an exam. I wince by the very thought. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Letting out a breath, I stepped back a little to observe my work as I dusted off my hands. I hummed staring down at the neatly piled books stacked to the very left corner of the desk. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No, the history book looks too big to be at the very top. 

 

 

 

 

A little again and it would flatten the rest of the books in a stack of flat pancakes. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

over to rearrange the books again and placed the history book at the very bottom. Stepping back again, I dusted off my hands this time with a soft smile beaming on my face as

 

 

 

 

 

 

to set. The golden hue of the sunset warms over my face as I turn to face the opened door. I smiled as Gertrude enters with a

 

 

 

 

 

 

something in her head. It was only a few minutes ago she saw them stacked

 

 

 

 

 

 

you’ve arranged them again.” She smiles tenderly and places the tray on my

 

 

 

 

 

 

for my family before I was even born into this world. She practically raised me even though she was a teenager at the time. She was of Mexican descent and was

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was not seeing the children again that had me on edge,

 

 

 

 

 

 

always fight to remain at the top of

 

 

 

 

 

 

neat stacked on the right.” I murmur walking over to her. It was not a

 

 

 

 

 

 

hated about her being with me for years, is that I could never seem to lie to her. She just sees right through it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

even started yet and you’re already so nervous. Relax.” She utters

 

 

 

 

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