***TWO MONTHS LATER***
“Riley!!”
I jump from my crouching position while tying my shoe lace as my mother’s voice rang through the house.
Winter break was over, and school resumed two weeks ago, last year I ended up writing my exams at home because I fell ill few days to exams after the incident and the principal thought it was good riddance and insisted I just take the exams at home.
Every day throughout the week that I had papers, Mr Thomas went back and forth to bring me exam questions and stayed to supervise me and then take the papers back to school.
I was glad though because it saved me the stress of hiding in the corners to avoid the boys from pushing or hitting me.
When school resumed two weeks ago, I dreaded going on the first day because I didn’t know what to expect.
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