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"You'll never be enough," Octavia said as she slapped her hand against her forehead. "Why can't you be more like them?" Octavia said as she sent another towards her already red cheek.

Her face felt tense and she nos had a pounding headache. Octavia approached her bed from her desk in a huff. "That's enough of those hard algebra problems for now," she thought.

She tried lying down and her mom knocked. She sat up immediately as the brass doorknob turned slowly. A figure appeared in her small bedroom, it was her mom. "Did you finish your homework?" Her mom demanded.

"No, it's too hard!" Octavia replied in a whiny and high pitched voice.

"What do you mean that it's too hard? Have you been procrastinating again?" The mom questioned with a suspicious expression.

"I haven't!" Octavia replied as she punched herself straight in the jaw.

"I'm going to give you one more hour," Octavia's mom said before leaving the bedroom. 