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Twenty-Seven
"Welcome back." The voice said to her as soon as she opened her eyes, looking around to take in her environment. The blurry face, smiling down at her, became clearer. "Must have been hard coming out of La la Land, huh? Let's play." She said. Janelle shook her head, squeezing her eyes shut. This must have been a big dream she would probably come out from.
As if reading her thought, Candace chuckled. "Oh no, sugar. You aren’t dreaming."
"It was all you? Everything that happened was all you?" Janelle's voice finally came back.
"Ah, thank God. You still have that smartness in you. At least Harvard wasn't a waste." Janelle looked up at her.
Candace scoffed. "You can imagine. You even had to attend Harvard and I had to attend a boarding school in Nigeria. Who does that? If he didn't want me to be noticed, he should have taken me abroad, but a far different school from yours. No
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