Emily Jackson
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When Julie returned to her dorm, a relieved sigh escaped her lips, and her forehead touched the surface of the door. She was away from prying eyes that had tried to ridicule her. "What have I done!" Julie banged her head against the door. "Kill me! Kill me!" On impulse, she had told Ms. Piper that she would play one of the main leads in the play, but now that she was alone and back to her usual cocoon, she realized what she had done. When a sudden knock came from the other side of the door, out of…-
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When Ms. Piper announced the names of every student along with their role to make sure she hadn't missed anyone, Julie saw Caleb turn to look at her with a sultry smile. Her eyes fell on her shoes, and she lifted one of them to see if she had stamped on something, that something being the worst bad luck in the entire history. Caleb's face twisted into anger, thinking she was comparing him to her shoe. Ms. Piper said, "Students who are selected for props can come and stand on the left side near the wall…
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'I will hand your punishment personally.' Those words were enough to elicit worry in Julie, which started to branch out underneath her skin. But there was a sliver of anticipation, to think that cleaning the window with his letter had made up his mind to show himself to her. Somewhere she was eager to meet who this mystery letter thief was, but at the same time, she wondered how much deeper she was going to fall into the rabbit hole. Bringing her book to place it on her lap, she wrote back to…
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Julie found Roman staring at her, and she cleared her throat and said, "I should get going. Thank you for answering my question and helping me back in there." She turned around, ready to leave, when Roman stopped her. "Wait." Turning back, she looked back at him. He questioned, "Did you ever speak to Mr. Evans before yesterday?" "The night I heard the scream, he was there with Mr. Borrell in the forest. He told us girls to not speak about it to anyone. Yesterday you mentioned something and I…
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Entering her dorm, Julie went near her window to take a careful peek to see if Roman and Mr. Evans were still standing outside. Roman was saying something to the counsellor, his face was serious, and she noticed the atmosphere around them was tense. Her mind pondered over what Roman said earlier to Mr. Evans, wondering if, like her, he had heard someone scream in the forest tonight. After a minute, both of them walked away from there, and Julie slowly closed the window and locked it. Taking a seat on…
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One minute Roman was trying to sway her into breaking the rules, and the next moment. He was trying to shoo her away from here. Only a few minutes ago, near one of the racks, he had stepped too close to her breathing space, and now he had turned distant, and it made her wonder what that was about. Julie packed up all her things and placed her bag over her shoulder. "Too bad that we didn't come sooner," commented Maximus, watching the human ready to leave. "See you later," Simon brought his hand up…
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Even though Roman was late for their study session, he was on point when it came to teaching her, and there was nothing that she could complain about. After all, he was taking his time to improve her grades in the subject of Rubix. Noticing Roman had stopped teaching, Julie's eyes looked up and saw that he was already looking at her. In the quiet side of the library and behind the rack, it was just the two of them. Realizing how close his handsome face was to hers, Julie slowly slid back to her seat…
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As the sun rose up in the sky, Julie woke up feeling less burdened by the emotions that she had locked for many months, a few of them had been set free. She didn't know why she had never tried discussing what had happened in school with her parents. Was it because they were always busy? Already facing the window, her hand reached out for the letter, and she brought it in front of her face. Opening it, she wondered what the letter thief had to say. The letter started with— 'Have you already…
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Hours passed, and in the evening, when Julie returned to her dorm, she noticed the space next to the window. It felt strange to return to the room and find no response to her letter from the letter thief. Was he not able to unlock the window anymore? She wondered whether he read it or if he had decided to not write to her anymore after hearing her story. During dinner, Julie went to the lunchroom with her friends. While standing in the queue and waiting for their turn, Conner noticed a few people…
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Julie had written only one line when she decided to strike it out. Using a new page, she wrote— 'How can I trust you, when I know nothing about you. If you will keep it to yourself as a secret or if you will tell it to the other students for your own advantage? I don't know anything about you, and you still hold the leverage by keeping my letter in your possession.' As easy as it was to share the story with a stranger, at the same time, she didn't know much about the letter thief. There was the…
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