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Always Take Disrespect personally. Wrongly. Always.” [Jacqueline]

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[Jacqueline’s POV]

I followed Nina by looking at her feet, as the noise around us grew louder. I shouldn’t have worn her clothes. I wasn’t even sure if I looked nice or if I looked fat. Me wearing a short top while my hair laid down on my shoulder loosely. It was creating a hell of anxiety within me.

A said to cla**mate B “Well, what the hell is she doing with Nina?”

“Who knows?” B answered.

“Did you see what she is wearing?” C questioned.

“I did. Dang, she doesn’t look that bad.” A replied.

“I think she is trying to impress someone.” B scoffed and retorted.

“I think you are right.” C and A agreed.

I wish what they said to be true. If only I could impress someone, I might have been having normal friends like them. I might be gossiping about someone like them too. I sighed, I didn’t need to pity myself.

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My palms clenched tighter but I didn’t

head jerked up at her as I looked at Nina. She was in a staredown with the guy, who was talking s*** about me. After some stank-eye between them, the guy sat down

for me, but why would she? Perhaps guilt? Or maybe she found me pitiful? Halfway across the room, I realized I didn’t sit at the back and we never sit together. Why was I following her so dumbly? I turned

looked offended, as her eyes narrowed down at me dangerously. My face contorted in confusion

there.” I pointed to

up Jacqueline, we are sitting

“But. I sit.”

“Please.”

“Okay.”

with her. He didn’t seem angry though, when I had looked at him he looked more like a

He wasn’t jealous of us. It was not like I was stealing his best friend away from him. Even if

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be filled with kindness. Her face was Oblong a short b***on nose and thick lips. Her clothes were always of modest light colors. She was a remarkable teacher and extremely hardworking at her job. I could still remember the first time we met face to face. It was about the time when she was just a**igned to teach us biology and I was unable to

were for real she asked me to go back to my seat. I did sit down quietly but my tears flowed down my cheeks. She asked me

a teacher were immense, she was a HOD of Biology of our

system works. She had already taken help from some of our cla**mates to take the blinds down and

information, and triggers reactions, such as making your muscles move or causing you

a kid pulling back his hand from a plate appeared on the screen. As she explained the example. “For example, if you touch a hot plate, you reflexively pull back your hand and your nerves simultaneously

pointing a finger towards each other, the teacher is facing black-board unaware

tie it in a ponytail. I try to crane my neck to glare at him, but he tightens his grip on my follicles, and I stop struggling. Nina now