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The Speech

I smiled, a real smile. I finally had the courage to tell them! I wrote on the paper. I tried to make my lettering perfect! I was about to sign when my mom called me downstairs. I put the letter A and went downstairs hiding the letter behind me. Sophie and Biana were sitting on our couches. I smile at the two. "So, you ready?" Biana asked me. "Yep!" I replied smiling at them. We joined hands and went to haven field. We went to Sophie's room and there was a table of snacks! And of course, the boys. I ran up to hug Dex. "Hiya!" I said, my voice filled with excitement. He blushed. "Um hi" he said shyly. I smiled even wider. I sat down next to him and floated a piece of mallow melt over to me. I almost ate it until Keefe snatched it from me! I protest by climbing over Dex and stealing back from Keefe. Dex yelps in surprise. "Sorry!" I try to say in between chewing mallow melt. We all laugh. "What's that?" Sophie asked. She pointed to my paper. I got nervous and started to comb my hair with my fingers, a nervous habit. She looked at me suspiciously, but doesn't ask any questions. I spread out on my sleeping bag. My grip loosens on the paper, and Fitz grabs it. I mean he's okay but we aren't really the best of friends. He starts to open the letter when I yank it out of his hands. It got ripped! I started tearing up. I just, I just wanted this to be perfect! Why was that so hard?! I knew I was overreacting, but I curled into a ball and sobbed. My entire body was shaking. People were trying to calm me down, but I couldn't even make out their words. Eventually I cried myself to sleep.

I went up to the leap master and went to foxfire. I was gloomy that day, so Stina and her goons definitely didn't help. They took it from my hands and ripped it to shreds! How could they?!!! I was sobbing violently and they were laughing at me. Then they threw the shredded paper at me! The nerve! I couldn't. I skipped the rest of school and headed to my favorite place at school, my garden.

The scent of all the flowers calmed me down. Eventually I stopped crying. I heard footsteps and I went rigid. Thankfully it was just Dex. "Do you want to talk about the paper?" He asked. He didn't know how important that paper was to me! He didn't know that when they ripped it, my heart ripped too! But I just couldn't stay mad at him. I sigh. I look at him again, he felt nervous talking with me, I could tell. I motioned for him to sit with me. I leaned on his shoulder. "It felt, like I was ... ripped. Like every inch of me no longer was me, but a part of something that could be great ..... but isn't." I began to tear up again. We could have sat there all day, but the bell rang. Signaling the end of school. I got up wiping the tears off my face. I hugged him. We headed out and went to our homes.

Fitz apologized. I glared at him. I grabbed another piece of paper. This time, I didn't control the stokes. My hand moved freely on the sheet. In the end, it looked better than the original. I felt happier than last time. The reason I wrote this was because there was an upcoming speech about what was important to us. I was one of the top three in my class. I wrote a speech about .... humans. The elves don't care about them or their problems. But, I wrote about a certain part of their history. About, the lgbt community. I was proud of it. So proud! I walked up in front of the entire school. I took a deep breath.

I opened my mouth and I didn't stop. Elves were staring at me. I couldn't care less. Before I could even finish a teacher pulled me off! I stared at him in disbelief. He shook his head. He frowned. When they took me off the stage my friends rushed up to me. "That was amazing!" They said. I smiled sadly. They all tried to comfort me. They put on the next prodigy on. I growled, it was Stina! I went back up to the stage. I took the microphone. "Humans deserve more! We're just as horrible as the neverseen! They all gasped. "Humans aren't all evil! We aren't perfect, but neither are you! We've evolved! The elves shun them just because we aren't as weak as you?! We have the courage to protect us! We don't just leave enemies to their own devices when they destroy our allies! We fight back!! We are important too!" I take another breath "We don't have the same advantages you do! Tens of thousands of people die each and every day and elves can keep at least half of them alive! If you were human you might die from going to work just to provide for our families! And 30 Million people live in poverty!" "Your just telling us problems that they made!" Someone yelled from the crowd probably stina. "No, I'm naming things that we have the power to fix, yet we sit here in our fake world, pretending that nothing is wrong!" I looked over at my friends. They were grinning. I kept going on barely leaving any space between my words. Each time I spoke more power was behind my voice.