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Dangerous failure

Penulis: Lustre Okengwu
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-06-07 22:12:54

Sage

Failure didn’t sit well with me. It scratched at the inside of my ribs, left an ache in my jaw from clenching too hard, too long. I stared at the results posted online, my name sitting beside a score so low it looked like a typo. It wasn’t.

Trust me.

And for once, I didn’t have an excuse. No one had drugged me or dragged me into a river this time. No wild memory loss or near-death bullshit. Just… me. Me, sitting in an exam hall, my head empty and my pen motionless.

I closed the tab before I could get angrier.

I didn’t want to burden Kaiden or the professor. They were always doing something, always trying to keep me safe, whole, unshattered. I could do this one thing on my own. I wasn’t helpless.

So I took the advice the professor gave me in the first place, find a tutor.

I asked around after class. Quietly. No desperation in my voice. Just an easy, aloof, hey do you know anyone who— and eventually, someone mentioned a guy named Malik. Smart, quiet. Kept to himself but brilliant
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    SageFailure didn’t sit well with me. It scratched at the inside of my ribs, left an ache in my jaw from clenching too hard, too long. I stared at the results posted online, my name sitting beside a score so low it looked like a typo. It wasn’t.Trust me.And for once, I didn’t have an excuse. No one had drugged me or dragged me into a river this time. No wild memory loss or near-death bullshit. Just… me. Me, sitting in an exam hall, my head empty and my pen motionless.I closed the tab before I could get angrier.I didn’t want to burden Kaiden or the professor. They were always doing something, always trying to keep me safe, whole, unshattered. I could do this one thing on my own. I wasn’t helpless.So I took the advice the professor gave me in the first place, find a tutor. I asked around after class. Quietly. No desperation in my voice. Just an easy, aloof, hey do you know anyone who— and eventually, someone mentioned a guy named Malik. Smart, quiet. Kept to himself but brilliant

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