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Thirty Nine
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2024-10-29 19:42:56~Jade~
This wasn't how it was supposed to happen.
Not like this.
Not at all.
I did not even know what to feel, what to say, how to feel.
'Smile into the camera'
I smiled.
'Congratulations, you've made us proud. The whole Lakeview must be proud of you right now'
I smiled again.
Everything had happened in a daze. The secretary calling in the morning to tell me Uthman was sick and I had to fill in for him, me calling Uthman and the calls going into voicemail, calling Akin and that one saying he has no idea because they've not even spoke since we left school, the driver driving me to school, me practicing agai
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