Chapter 9

I’m ready to face my death but someone grabbed my arm and pulled me back. I just found myself seating on the floor. Someone asked me what happened but I did not answer her question, instead I cried not minding the people circling around me. Due to emotional and mental torture I am going through, I passed out. When I woke up, I found myself lying on the bed of our School Clinic.

“Avi, how’s your feeling? Do you need something? Tell me,” Ma’am Dela Cruz asked, worriedly.

I looked around and I saw two teachers here, my adviser, Ma’am Dela Cruz and Nurse Sheena, the School nurse...