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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. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

at the very bottom. Stepping back again, I dusted off my hands this time with a soft smile beaming on my face

 

 

 

 

 

 

that the sun was about to set. The golden hue

 

 

 

 

 

 

books on the desk and she seems to be calculating something in her head. It was only a few

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

knew how fidgety I got when it involved school. It was not seeing the children again that had me on edge,

 

 

 

 

 

 

one must always fight to remain at the top of

 

 

 

 

 

 

I murmur walking over to her. It was not a lie though, from my perspective, they looked kind of

 

 

 

 

 

 

hated about her being with me for years, is that I could

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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