The Twin Girl They Rejected

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all the way through the bus ride.

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te was a one-time act of kindness. Now I

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past six. I was only seeing it three hours later because I

et as the bus pulled up o

erything had taken longer than normal because my f

had lost

while I was making breakfast.

e work she did, and even though she had never treated me with

fired two d

d me something I had never expected from him. He said I should

d leave the house before she could fin

y before. Perhaps he felt guilty about yesterday. Or per

argue. I made breakfast, prepared her

, Shane drove past me. He saw me and only smiled. Then he drov

ore my first lecture, and the ne

hoped the traffic would be kind to me. It wasn't. By th

faculty building. Five minutes late.

e. I ran faster. Then I saw Shane. He was standing outside the faculty building wi

campus, making trouble and finding someone

me. I ignored them. I couldn't afford to

to cl

I didn't see the foot placed across m

floor. Pain shot through my right knee.

to push myself up. My leg woul

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ter becam

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up. He wa

in such a hurry a m

f the pain alone. It was the humiliation. The helplessness. The fact tha

blood treat me worse than strange

s as an excuse to miss P

laugh

favourite professor,

right leg refused to carry me. I could hear them laughing. An