Beyond What I Dreamed

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I hear my alarm go off, but a

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's your first day of school

, Mom, just fi

posed to be at scho

ight out

my alarm fo

l back as

practically fly

call

have br

Mom! I'll e

un out

ar comes speeding by! I hear ti

me stuck-up ri

girl! I could

affic light - it

! I was in the crosswalk! Pay attenti

're lucky I'm running late

stand there watching him drive away - w

I reach the school gate, Dona Marlene,

ol and you're alrea

hen I reach the classroom door

I supposed to get through this whole year with he

come in,

a cold look

oner. Now you'll have to w

orry to have inter

it, does she have two classes in a row? That's so unfair, she could've just let

the art teacher! Thank goodness, she's won

recess and I t

of high school and we'

ra, Larissa, and Bárbara - we've been

r last two classes - math with Te

get along so well with her! Scho

is Deise Alencar, I'm seventeen, and I'm in my senior year.

ng when I was born. Dad owned an accounting

was thirteen. That's when everything

d cleaning houses once a week and seeing patients

no money and the business was bankrupt. I was so young then, and Mom

that the man should provide for the family. Mom tried to ask questions,

ver needed to know passwords o