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2021-05-27 04:17:30School. The place I both dreaded going back to and was happy to see. I walked through the doors of Whispering Hollow High School feeling like I hadn’t been there for ages. The students were even staring at me like they wondered where I’d been. I knew I was way behind and probably in danger of having missed too many days that semester. The same could be said for all of my packmates who had been out fighting evil and hiding from dragons for just as many days as I had been. So we all walked together to the principal’s office to find out if Mr. Short was going to require us to do anything other than to make up our missing work.
“Well, well, well,” he began folding his arms and looking at me like he was my father and he’d caught me sneaking in past curfew. “If it isn’t Harlow Nightingale.”
“Hello, Mr. Short, sir,” I said. “We are back.”
So sorry for the slow releases! One of my daughters is graduating from fifth grade this week and the other is graduating from eighth grade so we are super busy! 
Bella Moondragon
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