Deceptive Realities

Description

"You can abandon dreams, but you can't abandon reality."

“So what’s your favorite season, Min?” As a way of getting to know her students better, Mrs. Lee had asked our English class straightforward questions. She was about halfway done with interrogating her students, and I was the next student on her hit-list. For many, it was a simple question; a question that would not even trigger a single thought. Yet, when it took me five minutes to gather my thoughts together and answer, I finally managed to utter a response.

                My classmates were all sitting on the edge of the seat – who wouldn’t? Answering an elementary question shouldn’t even take longer than ten seconds to process, let alone five minutes. But oh, how wrong they were. When I finally spoke, nobody moved.

                “Summer.”

                And then I started crying.

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Foreword

My first story! ^.^