Tag: revenge
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Swinging
“You are a coward. A bloody, screaming coward,” I could barely control my voice or my anger. Taylor started to walk toward me, but I put both of my hands up to stop him. “I can’t even believe your nerve.” As I turned and walked away, my body was still vibrating with anger. Taylor had betrayed…
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Matters
“Keep your mind on your matters,” I read the email out loud. “Do I really want to keep my mind of my own matters?” I stood up as I closed my laptop and started pacing in my closet office. My life was based on knowing what everyone around me was doing on how they were doing. …
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The Joke
“He thinks I’m the joke,” I said to the mirror. “He will soon find out that I’m not the joke he thinks I am. Soon the joke will be on him.” I gathered up my clothes and my school books and headed toward my car. Harry had broken up with me the day before and had…
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Love
I knew I loved you the first time I saw you. I had to train myself to sit on my hands so I wouldn’t touch you during class. I wanted so badly to be with you and next to you that I had a hard time sleeping. I even started wearing makeup and stopped wearing sweatpants to class every day. The…
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Wild and Feral
My dad always joked that I had grown up ‘wild and feral.’ I didn’t like to be inside and I didn’t like to wear shoes. I just responded with the fact he shouldn’t have moved to a farm if he wanted me to be prim and proper. That he shouldn’t have raised me as a tomboy. I did wear dresses…
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Woodland Creatures
When I told my sister about the conversation I had with the fox, I could tell she was jealous. She didn’t want to admit yet that I could talk to the foxes before she did, but here we are. We had started school a few weeks before and had a new headmaster and he was…