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Marylise

My eyes are too heavy and I feel like my head will explode at any moment. I'm too sleepy. I couldn't sleep last night. Thinking about what happened yesterday has wreaked havoc on me. I wish I could forget it for a moment, but every time I try, the memories come to me and hit me hard.

To remember what I felt when he was touching me, to go over in my mind the pleasant feeling I experienced yesterday, it's so. . .

"What do you think of this, Marylise?" The teacher's voice pulls me out of my ponderings.

I leap at hearing my name and quickly lift my head off the table from my seat. I look at the teacher and she gives me a look of few friends.

"Excuse me?" I mean, trying to get her to repeat her question.

"I ask you, what do you think about what I have just said. . . " She repeats, with a challenging voice and look. I swallow hard as I look around and notice that all the gaze of my peers is on me.

I haven't heard a word she has said since I entered her class. I've been so distracte