Stories tagged “peer pressure”
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Kristin
As soon as the announcement was make, Kristin didn’t know whether to cry or grin eagerly. So she squirmed in her seat, dreading the next few weeks. She expected not to be asked out (who wants a girlfriend smarter than themselves?) and yet she kin...
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Under the Oak Tree
Dew stained grass tingles against my ankles, and I take another bite of my sandwich. An unwelcome breeze penetrates my thin school pullover, and leaves above my head flutter in a down-wards spiral. A few meters behind my back, I could hear a few girls ...
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Below The Influence.
Loner. That’s where I started. The chink in the chain. The girl, No one wanted. Parties. That’s where I went, Just to become popular. Such new people Who didn’t think I was a freak. Alcohol. They told me to drink. They handed me a sho...
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Price Tag.
Before she thought it out, she took the item and stuck it in her purse. Her arms and hands betrayed her, and made her become the woman she was not raised to be. She didn’t want it to be this way, but it was happening. “Just take it! I do it...