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* Do the right thing even when no one is watching. — Oprah Winfrey. *

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----- Mira ------

It's been one week since I'd last heard from Jose. Though we've been in no contact for almost three weeks, it still feels different, especially after our last encounter.

The memory of how he'd thrown me out of his room the other day still haunts me, though I knew he’d only done that because he was pissed. Yet, it didn't stop it from hurting.

“ How could he? ” As much as I try to make excuses for him, it still doesn't change the fact that he'd hurt me.

I've always heard that being sensitive and understanding is a bad thing, I'd never known how true that was until now.

On one hand, I'm very well aware of how hurt he is by what happened, but yet it still doesn't give him the right to treat me the way he did.

It doesn't.

My alarm clock went off indicating the end of my ten minute break. I went back to my desk and plopped my butt on my study chair, as I opened my bi