Mayra's heart paced everytime the thought crossed her mind. The pit of her stomach felt sick with the built up anxiety. She had contemplated it thoroughly over the last week, in between reading the pages of numerous teen-fiction novels in her possession. But now, when the moment was so near, she felt herself going insane with the nervousness. Sure, she had worked hard and finally got her way into St. Theresa High School but was it going to be worth it? The fact that she wasn't going to see any of her friends there didn't help either. She wanted to see a familiar face but all her friends had decided to continue their education in her former boarding school, Navodaya Vidhyalaya in Bangalore. Even Shrey! Her eyes flickered to the filled glass of warm milk that her mother had kept on the bedside table two hours ago. She was told to drink it and go to sleep. It was now cold as the droplets of r
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