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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
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2022-01-02 23:57:43CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
**MARIANNA**
Despite having taken a car to school, we were still twenty five minutes late because of the morning rush. Mrs. Hathaway stopped the car at the front of the school and both Vanessa and I got down from the car.
"Have a good day at school girls. Bye!" She said and we nodded our heads as we waved and watched her drive off. Vanessa and I turned towards the school and walked in through the school gate.
We first went to our lockers to get the necessary books we will be needing before going to the direction our classroom was located. Vanessa and I breath out nervously when we got to the door of our classroom. I opened the door and walked in first with Vanessa behind me. All eyes fell on us immediately we stepped in, including that of the teacher who was kinda glaring murderously at us for coming l
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