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"Wake up" I heard someone say and I slowly opened my eyes to see my mum looking rather angry. "Your going to miss the exam!" She said and I woke up instantly. A exam retake. I wanted to retake it because I had a one mark off the grade I really wanted. I sat in the exam and sighed. " You may start now." The teacher supervising us said. I looked down at the paper and smiled. This was going to be fine. The door began to open slowly and the principle walked in with the normal gormless face showing no emotion. "You can't"... "he deserves to know"... "it will be a distraction"... "How would you feel?"... I heard them mutter and saw the principle walk towards me. "We've had a call. We believe you may wish to leave the exam. It's your friend." He said and like that I ran out the room. Collected my things and ran to the bus stop. A bus pulled into the bus stop and I threw the money down. I would get there. There was no way on earth she was leaving without me. I got my phone out and watched people tweet Aurora like everything was fine. Like she was fine. It broke my heart. I typed the only thing I could think of.

''hold on, hold on, I'll be there soon''

It had been a year. A year without her. A year without my princess. A year without my sleeping beauty. Aurora Abira. Aurora... Sleeping beauty. Abira... strong in Hebrew. Just because a day passes doesn't mean life gets easier. But hey that's life. Life makes everything hard. But you know what Aurora taught me? She taught me to smile and appreciate life. The day I lost her was one of the hardest days of my life. She knew she was going but still smiled and laughed.

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