Smart Kid Problems
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Dinah fantasizes about her father. She does it when she’s frustrated with her mother. She does it when she’s lonely, and stuck in her head. She does it after she’s gotten into a fight and she’s in trouble with the school and her mom.
If her father were here…
Series
- Part 3 of Mirror
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 755
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 6
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- 159
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Dinah had reared back to slap Emma before she had even half the words put together. She stood over the other girl, fists clenched tight by her sides. “Don’t you ever, ever talk about my mom. You don’t know how smart she is or hard she works or everything she puts up with every day so don’t talk about things your stupid white-girl with everything handed to you on a plate doesn’t know anything about!”
And then she steps back and walks away. To the bathroom. Where she’s found by the hall monitor, sitting in the last stall, crying, when the woman is sent in to find her.
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- Part 5 of Mirror
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,097
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 3
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- 88
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Dinah hears, “Did you see how aggressive she was? She’s going to be trouble, watch,” before she's all the way out of the school office.
It’s her first day of Ninth grade at a school at the far end of the city. She asked to be here.
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On her first day in high school, two overheard conversations set the tone for the rest of Dinah's life. Of course she doesn't realize this at the time. She is, after all, only twelve years old.
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- Part 6 of Mirror