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Can you believe how I have been treated for the past five days? Whenever time to break is coming up, classmates start holding my hands, inviting me to go to the campus canteen. They will ask me which food I would like to eat or which drink I prefer over the others although not all of the menus look scrumptious. Some seniors might also pass by and they will call my name out first before recognizing I am with several friends from my batch. After the seniors greet all of us, my session of social performance will commence. It's like staging up you know. Making stories up, delivering them to those curious classmates, and being given applause and laughter and smiles and compliments of how interesting it is to be friends with me.

Should I be flattered or what? Being the center of attention really brings you those kinda feelings of pride, bliss, and victory. Well, at least not until I have learned that she's stealing the spotlight, too. But she doesn't seem to manage it well. People keep comparing her to me. She is, indeed, smarter and observant. But does she have this ability to be attentively listened to by others? Is she able to entertain them with amusing stories? She even hesitates a lot whenever she tries to speak up. How will she outrank me? I am unbeatable, Darling.

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