he mockery with a push. I left Jason to separate the two and found myself like almost every other night, with three demonized pre-teens wanting to kill each other. It didn't take lo

Do you ask your brothers to pretend to be you in classes when you don't get along? - I looked at him, dying of anger and at the same time trying not to laugh. -That's cheating. He huddled in the corner of the bed, shaking his hands as he justified himself. - No, Dad, it's not cheating. It's called companionship, wasn't it you who told us that we should be friends with each other and always protect each other? School is a jungle and if you are weak, you will be massacred. And the little bastard left me without answers again... - It's wrong to use the similarity between you to deceive the teachers. I don't want you doing this again, am I clear? I said it firmly, allowing no objections, but I noticed that the smart guy hid his crossed fingers from me behind his back. - I promise it won't happen again, Dad. And I pretended to believe it and went to put the next child to sleep. Chapter 2 Clara Mancini "If one day someone told me to be what I am and what I like I don't know who I am and I'm going to change To be what I always wanted And if you say that you dream of one day being happy Be serious" Music : Xote da joy Falamansa My hands were shaking so much that I thought I was going to let the cappuccino spill. - I'll hold it so you can read it properly - said Emily, taking the drink from my hand, so that I could open the envelope properly, so much was I anxious to read the answer that I couldn't move two steps away from the mailbox, to open it and check the result at home. - Girl of God! I achieved. - I held the paper in front of her face, [2] so she could see the word APPROVED on the paper. - Look here, friend, it says here that I got it, doesn't it? She quickly glanced at the paper and grabbed me in a tight [3] hug, saying a series of congratulations. I had actually achieved it. I was finishing the last month of my exchange in Austin, but I absolutely didn't want to return to Brazil. Not that I wasn't missing home, my family and my friends, but living this time away from them made me grow so much and learn so many new things, that I needed to stay at least a little longer. College wasn't quite like the afte