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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 time with a soft smile beaming on my face as I observe my work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The golden hue of the sunset warms over my face as

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

again.” She smiles tenderly and places the tray on

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 didn’t look a

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was not seeing the children again

 

 

 

 

 

 

world, one must always fight to remain at the top of the chain. Their words had been engraved into my mind before I had even learned to

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

seeing straight through me. That is one thing I hated about her being with me for years, is that I

 

 

 

 

 

 

Relax.” She utters and

 

 

 

 

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