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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 again, I dusted off my hands this time with a

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 my face as I turn to face

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

again.” She smiles tenderly and places the tray on my bedside table.

 

 

 

 

 

 

been working 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 now the age of thirty-seven and

 

 

 

 

 

 

got when it involved school. It was not seeing the children again that had me on edge, but it was the pressure to always top

 

 

 

 

 

 

at the top of the chain. Their words had been engraved into my mind before I had

 

 

 

 

 

 

over to her. It was not a lie though, from my perspective, they looked kind of off stacked on the

 

 

 

 

 

 

I could

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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