SekinaThe days that followed were hollow and guilt-ridden.I could not focus on anything other than my frantic heartbeat, and the sweat pooling in my palms each time someone stared at me too long, as if they knew what I had done.Simone, three-time winner of Cole University's Most Beautiful, with her luscious, long brown hair and sky blue eyes —her pale skin was where our similarities ended— and Sean, the most gorgeous guy in the school, were the star couple. Everyone drooled over what they had, and if news made it out that I had ruined it…I would be crucified. That is, if Simone didn't do it first.“Salvador?” The professor's crisp voice cut into my thoughts. I jolted back to the present, where I stood on the podium in front of the entire hall of students. “Are we supposed to wait all day for you to begin?”Low bursts of laughter rippled through the hall.I had prepared for this presentation for weeks, yet now I stood, completely blank and unfocused. I swallowed hard, and glanced t
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