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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. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

sun was about to set. The

 

 

 

 

 

 

seems to be calculating something in her head. It was only a few minutes ago she saw

 

 

 

 

 

 

them again.” She smiles tenderly and places the

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 didn’t look a day older.

 

 

 

 

 

 

it involved school. It was not seeing

 

 

 

 

 

 

fight to remain at the top

 

 

 

 

 

 

was not a lie

 

 

 

 

 

 

me for years, is that I could never seem to lie to her. She just sees right

 

 

 

 

 

 

yet and you’re already so nervous. Relax.”

 

 

 

 

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