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Failing A Grade
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2021-10-15 15:27:40During lunchtime, some men came to pick me up at school. They were the Autocratic Family members. Top players in the game.
When we got to the warehouse, I found the other 3guys who were in my position. We were four in total and had to play a game called survival of the fittest or last man standing.
The wise- thug and the policeman weren’t present at moment and I was given new tutors so I got a phobia. Whatever game we are going to play, I`m disadvantaged before it began. I still could feel pain in my body. And I was nothing compared to my opponents.
It was the last quarter of the year and I had missed the third yet I still have to bunk few more days for the sake of being a high-profiled thug like the rest of the cabinet in the Empire. One would say it would be a miracle if I was promoted to the next grade.
I became fully committed to the initiations or the game itself. The thing I liked about my new tutors was that they a
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