Where Forever Ends

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professeur"

t allez

one responds from the crowd

nment", my french teacher s

o her, she is sitted beside me now. She has been sitting w

s up "oui mad

e in passe' compose'

means My name is Mirabel Abduraman", Mirabel

n before explaining passe' compose' further and give you your class works", she turns to the board and starts scribbling dow

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ademoi

ur partner

sn't come yet ma, I think

a little , "

nu

h.

et , both of you are not sitting toget

g is slung lazily on one shoulder and he is holding his blazer with his oth

at Fre

ur mademoiselle or sorry la' professeur...Miss N

reason for

up late",

class has to stop", my French teacher

onds going to a seat at

tion for you,

he adjusts h

ghs in

se', I asked your friend to tell me a sentence in pa

ée Mirabel Abduram

g interesting about that sentence, what's that new word

I'll pick randomly oh.

recognize her to be that girl I had met

, y

y hand ma", she says lo

, an annoyed voice says from

ing, I don't know", she responds

over his face, he's turning a short ruler with holes, on his pen

our answer oga" , she eyes his action

on his table

th a strained voice and

ame. So you can translate the sentence to ' I have called myself Mirabel Abduraman' that's if you're translating direct

everyone laughs, Onuta rolls his eyes and

ct. But because you're good with it doesn

that before",

e scribbling on the board " This translates to, 'I have introduced myself as Mirabel Abduraman' Or, you can put it simply as 'Je suis Mirabel Abduraman' which translates to, 'My name is Mirabel Abduraman'

s that have just been said in this class,

my workbo

..

out of the class, I sit there, gawking at the gibberish in my workbook. I have never really been good in French. I'm

om my mouth and push it into the side of my bag. I stand up and straighten my uniform that has already wrinkled at the sides, look around and notice nobody is really in cl

he and prepare myself t

e work on her desk, drop the book gently, facing it down and looki up t

rning slowly, walk back to the table she's sitted,turn the book slowly and give her a sheepish smile before pushing it to her front. When

s, Gl

ma?", I know

her from where I'm standing and she m

to me , dropping the book gently on the table , my eyes f

really didn't have anythin

matter of I'

hesi

for all junior students", she adds immediately knowing fully well that I might say that French wasn't important. I mean

n it ma, I've never re

class. "I would have had Mirabel teach you but I think Onuta would

" I think having Mirabel teach me will be easi

was still his class teacher and she improved

to either make me worst than I am now or make me kill myself

der. He stands to his full height, too talk for an Ss1 student, he strides towards us

", he grins at her an

to do somet

les again and uses his left hand to

hat he'll say about teaching me. His perfume is so nice , now that I'm standing close to him, I think

im teach me before she opens her mouth. "I want you to teac

e scrunches

French and I don't know how I'm going to start explai

me, bold and intimidating. He eyes me down for a second or two

, just do it for me, I wan

and tell her I'm good with Mirabel or anybody else, just

an't

ts him, 'did she just

he mutter

ge sir"

er, but once she does anything stupid, I'm out", he

t believe people actually overlooks

after school to put you

ma", I

feel embarrassed marking this book". I take th

'm about going out of the class when Mirabel shouts for me to wait for her and I do. Onuta pats her on he