After Last Year

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❝Are you saying Jac and I have a hidden... passion?❞  Thomas' voice rang out over the theater.  He shouldn't have said that, I thought.  He shouldn't have connected the dots for them.
    ❝Well don't you?❞  Mr. Edwards asked ominously and I squeezed my eyes shut, trying to block it all out.
    
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    After last year, everything was different for Jacintha.  She couldn't walk through the hallways with her head up for fear of meeting his eyes which always seemed to be on her.  She couldn't eat lunch in the cafeteria because his old friends would torment her― bully her.  She had a new found fear of people and was always under guard.  All because of last year.
    
    Then at a school assembly the guest speaker, a balding man by the name of Mr. Edwards, thrusts Jac and him in to spotlight.  As people shove the two together and pry into their secrets, trying to find out the truth about what really happened last year, Jac realized that the truth she's kept a secret may not really be the real truth.All Rights Reserved

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After Last Year [1]
Thu, Sep 6, 2018

❝Are you saying Jac and I have a hidden... passion?❞  Thomas' voice rang out over the theater.  He shouldn't have said that, I thought.  He shouldn't have connected the dots for them.
    ❝Well don't you?❞  Mr. Edwards asked ominously and I squeezed my eyes shut, trying to block it all out.
    
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    After last year, everything was different for Jacintha.  She couldn't walk through the hallways with her head up for fear of meeting his eyes which always seemed to be on her.  She couldn't eat lunch in the cafeteria because his old friends would torment her― bully her.  She had a new found fear of people and was always under guard.  All because of last year.
    
    Then at a school assembly the guest speaker, a balding man by the name of Mr. Edwards, thrusts Jac and him in to spotlight.  As people shove the two together and pry into their secrets, trying to find out the truth about what really happened last year, Jac realized that the truth she's kept a secret may not really be the real truth.

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