I waited at the front of the school, wondering if the mistress would pick me up today. I had called my mother 'the mistress' for as long as I could remember. She had told me to call that when I was young, although it seemed as if it had been a lifetime since I first heard the mistress command me to do that. The mistress usually didn't come, and I ended up walking the long …
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…can go through it this once, but don't ever do it again, understand?" I snarled, with menace in my voice. "When do we have to leave Australia?" I asked, changing the tone of my voice. "Well...Actually...If we don't go soon, we'll miss the plane," said Michael with urgency in his voice. My friends ran off, but I stood silently for a while, feeling very faint, but decided to go along with them anyway.