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. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and reach over to rearrange the books again and placed the history book at the very bottom. Stepping back again, I dusted off my hands this

 

 

 

 

 

 

set. The golden hue

 

 

 

 

 

 

on the books on the desk and she seems to be calculating something in her head. It was only a few minutes ago she saw them stacked on the right corner when she came to ask if

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

born into this world. She practically raised me even though she was a teenager at the time. She was of Mexican descent and was now the age of

 

 

 

 

 

 

school. It was not seeing the children again that had me on edge, but it was the pressure to always top all my classes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

world, one must always fight to remain at the top of the chain. Their words had been engraved into

 

 

 

 

 

 

look neat stacked on the right.” I murmur walking over to her. It was not a lie though, from my perspective, they looked kind of off stacked

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

even started yet and you’re already so nervous. Relax.” She utters and uncovers the food revealing green string beans and fully

 

 

 

 

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