No Mercy for the Merciless

was simple, a quie

vileged students to their SATs,

a sharp, high-pitched voic

was demanding a luxury SUV for five, n

show up to the most important exam of our lives c

lement that left me breathless,

e, telling myself it was

ng expensive coffees, the verbal jabs began, culminatin

swerved

arrowly m

could have killed us!" I yell

almost got us killed!" she shrieked back,

the others, nodded in agreemen

ss of it all

ed into an obligation, and

"Don't give them a single thing they can use

I would

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on, just

and then wash my ha