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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. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

very bottom. Stepping back again, I

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

was only a few minutes ago she saw them stacked on the right

 

 

 

 

 

 

tenderly and places the tray on

 

 

 

 

 

 

my family before I was even born into this world. She practically raised me even though she was a teenager

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was not seeing the children again that had

 

 

 

 

 

 

always fight to remain at the top of the chain. Their words

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

the semester hasn’t even started yet and you’re already so nervous. Relax.” She

 

 

 

 

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