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Grace liked spring. She liked how it brought new beginnings and she liked the idea of it being a time for second chances. Nowadays, spring brings her pain.
The eighty-sixth annual Diamond City eisteddfod is one of Grace's many banes of her existence. One would never have thought playing the piano used to be Grace's favourite past-times.
This is a story about expectations, the discovery of self and independence. It is a half-standalone half-companion short-story written for an English assignment, so please excuse any discrepancies.
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Kate has finally reached her senior year, the last year of high school life. She was looking forward to it because this is the year where everything will be put up as a good and last memory of high school. Until, her mother decided to go out of the city and moved her into a different school that she didn't even agreed on. Her life starts to turn into nothing but a mess. She was completely invisible on the current school that she was enrolled in. She feels as if her last year of high school life is not worth remembering. Not that she was expecting, she accidentally met the campus' playboy of their school. She doesn't want to get involved of any of him but the playboy insisted that he wants to be her friend? What will her high school life turned out to be? It all started in just one tiny accident. An accident that me and him, fell in love.
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