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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. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

rearrange the books again and placed the history book at the very bottom. Stepping back again,

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 my face as I turn to face the

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

She smiles tenderly and places the tray on

 

 

 

 

 

 

had been working for my family before I was even born into this world. She practically raised me even though she was a teenager at

 

 

 

 

 

 

giggle. Gertrude knew how fidgety I got when it involved school. It was not seeing the children again that

 

 

 

 

 

 

the top of the

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was not a lie though, from my perspective, they

 

 

 

 

 

 

seeing straight through me. That is one thing I 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 never

 

 

 

 

 

 

do great Arabella, the semester hasn’t even started yet and you’re already so nervous. Relax.” She utters and uncovers

 

 

 

 

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