“Hello MS.Ormia. Do you still remember me?” she asks with assertive voice.
“Ga-Ga-Gabrielle Rove, drop that gun and let’s talk this peacefully,” Ms.Ormia appeals to her.
“Peacefully huh?! Have you forgotten what YOU did to me?” Gabby pronounced the word firmly. “In this room where all my classmates looked at me as if have contagious disease; all because of you.”
“Please Rove. Gabrielle Rove listen to me—”
“Why would I do that? Did you listen to me before?”
Ms. Ormia starts to cry. “Please don’t do this. Please I’m begging you don’t do this.”
“Shut the hell up!” Gabby’s voice echoed within the room.
Gabrielle tied Ms.Ormia on a chair also; she started to pour in the gasoline into her former teacher’s head. An event from her past flashed back like an old movie played on her very eye when an old photo hanging on the room’s wall seizes her attention.
The class has just started and everyone in Flaine High is excited to start their classes. But Gabrielle is none of those excited ones. Her grandfather told her to smile always so she’ll look friendly but she could not do such. She walks to the hallway towards her first class as a sophomore; her knees are trembling. She survives her freshman year but she’s not doubtful if she could pass through this school year. Everything frightens her like the subjects, the new classmates and the new teachers.
“Good morning class I’m your class adviser and Biology instructor. My name is Zane Ormia,” the teacher announced with blunt facial expression but authoritative voice.
Days and months had passed and Gabby’s sophomore year is going a bit normal. Not so much bully around and her grades are doing well until one rainy morning it’s the starts of what the students’ called “hell week” or exam week.
“Gabrielle Rove! What is this?” Holding up a piece of paper Ms.Ormia asks exasperated.
“I-I-I don’t know ma’am,” she uttered while wiping the tears that are dribbling on her cheeks.
“Huh! Cheating is a crime. Don’t you know that? And cheaters should be burned in hell? Now you dare to cheat? You cannot take the exam. Leave! Oh and one more thing I want to talk to your guardian about this.
“But ma’am—”
“No buts. Do what I say. Leave-this- room- now!”
Gabby gathered her things. She felt every eyes burrowing at her cold and bare core. That moment she wanted the floor to open up and swallow her just to avoid this demeaning situation.
“Please Gabrielle don’t do this to me. Whatever I did it’s in the past now. Please, please, please let me go.”
The sobbing voice of Ms.Ormia distracted her recollection of the past instances.
“Don’t you know that after you accused me of cheating everyone in this freaking school tormented me? You gave them the license to crush me into pieces. You gave them the green light to make my pathetic life a living hell. You judged me of what you considered as a “crime” that I didn’t really do. Did you investigate who really did that? No. You didn’t so you have no effing right to beg.”
Gabby plays the Zippo lighter in her hands. Then she breaks the photo frame on the wall. Afterwards she snatches the picture in it. She gritted her teeth when she sees her old self there.
“Gabrielle, stop this let bygones be bygones.”
“Remember what you said about cheaters? Well the poem “Burning the Letter” says…
This fire may lick and fawn, but it is merciless:
A glass case
My fingers would enter although
They melt and sag, they are told
Do not touch.
“NOS VEMOS EN EL INFIERNO!” she speaks out filled with rage.
On that note Gabby ignited the picture and throws it in the direction of the bawling teacher. In no time the fire rapidly crawls into Ms. Ormia’s body. Gabby runs to her car outside the school premise after she savors the moment of seeing Ms.Ormia being burned alive. When she’s definite that she’s far from Flaine High she stopped the car, took out the crumpled paper from her pocket and crossed out the first name from her list with a smirk upon her face.
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Time to Retaliate
Mystery / ThrillerHow will you continue to live your life when your only reason for living died? What will you do if you discovered that you only have a few months to live? Will you be happy because you have the chance to be with him in the afterlife or will you ge...
