Category: Through my Window by ARIANA Godoy

Apolo, Ares, and I are doing our best working the evening shift at Dream Burgers after school. However, I’m hating my boyfriend right now. I know, how could I when I can hardly believe he’s really my boyfriend? But why does he have to be so attractive? Why does everything have to look good on him? The Dream Burgers uniform is the most antisensual clothing in the world, and yet […]

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Senior year has been no joke. I can count on my fingers the days I’ve had time for some fun or to go out with my friends or Ares. We’ve all been consumed by the excellent-gradesrequired monster in order to have a remote shot at a good college when we graduate. It’s been crazy, and we’re all drained. Now, after a week of testing, I can finally relax a little […]

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Time flies by. After Halloween, Ares and I hung out several times a week before he went on a Thanksgiving trip with his family. The more time I spent with him, the more I got to know him. I was able to catch those little things, like what a perfectionist he is whenever he does something for school, or how responsible he is with his soccer team, never once missing […]

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Waking up and stretching my arm across an empty bed is not what I expected. With my head spinning, I get up, staggering to the bathroom, and look around. Nothing. I notice Raquel’s clothes are nowhere to be found, and I realize she’s gone. Did the witch use me and leave? I can’t believe it. This goes on the long list of first times with Raquel. No girl has ever […]

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“What?” Dani rolls her eyes. “The walk of shame. You know, the day after you fuck someone you shouldn’t. There’s a movie and everything.” I let out a chuckle. “I knew it! I told you I gave you a month to fall for him!” Dani gives me a murderous look. “Get moving. It’s nine o’clock, and your mom is off her shift today at eleven.” “Oh shit, you should have […]

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“Raquel.” Someone is shaking my shoulder. “Raquel!” Being violently shaken brings me from the world of unconsciousness back to life. “Raquel!” A demanding whisper reaches my ears, but I don’t want to open my eyes. “For God’s sake, wake up!” I open one of my eyes, closing the other as I get used to the light. A figure is leaning over me. “What—” A hand covers my mouth and I […]

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“You look spectacular.” “I feel spectacular,” I answer with a big smile on my face as I look at myself in the mirror. I’m the type of person who sometimes feels pretty, sometimes average, and sometimes just awful. It’s so strange. It’s like I have no exact concept of what I look like, and it doesn’t help that beauty can be so subjective. “I must say, that costume is the […]

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Silence reigns as Claudia and I stare at Sofia Hidalgo. Out of all the possible reactions I could imagine, Claudia’s was not one of them. It reminded me of the sayings: “People are not what they seem” and “Never judge a book by its cover.” When I first saw Claudia, she struck me as submissive: a service girl who was used to lowering her head in front of her bosses, […]

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