"Just let me be, who I am. It's what you really need to understand! And I hope so hard for the pain to go away! And it's torturing me, but I can't break free. So I cry and cry but won't get it out." -Zoey
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As they call me those names, I close my eyes, hug myself and I look down.
'Why did they even start calling me these things?! Why do they hate me?! What did I do?!' I wonder. I have so many questions in my mind, yet none of them can be answered...
As the teacher is teaching. Like teachers do. I draw and I go into MY world. There is a rainbow and clouds and flowers everywhere! I hold my pencil above my paper. Now only if the real world could be like MY world...
Everyone has a partner for the art project. But I'm just sitting at my desk alone.
The teacher goes over to my desk and holds out her hand. I put my drawing in her hand. She looks at it.
"The task was a Flower Painting."
"There is a flower!" I argue.
I drew a grave yard with crosses and tombstones. And a little tiny flower on one of the tombstones. There was a flower in that drawing all right!
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