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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. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

placed the history book at the very bottom. Stepping back

 

 

 

 

 

 

then the door to my room opens softly. So grossed in my organizing I had now only realized that the sun was about to set. The golden hue of the sunset warms over

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 wanted her to

 

 

 

 

 

 

arranged them again.” She smiles tenderly and

 

 

 

 

 

 

practically raised me even though she was a teenager at the time. She was

 

 

 

 

 

 

fidgety I got when it involved school. It was not seeing the children again that had

 

 

 

 

 

 

said, to succeed in this world, one must always fight to remain at the top of the chain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

didn’t look neat stacked on the right.” I murmur walking over to her. It was not a lie though, from my perspective, they

 

 

 

 

 

 

sadly clearly seeing straight through me. That is one thing I hated about her being with me for years, is that I could never seem to

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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