Chapter 45: To Find You Again

Nodding, I could feel the relief washing through me.

But after I observed how well the first student read, I couldn’t get out of my mind the worry, the fear, the endless anxiety that I wouldn’t do nearly as well, that my words wouldn’t flow in such a fluid way as his.

My shaking quickly turned to tremors, and when he took a seat, I felt my stomach lurching.

It was him. Emanuel.

“All right,” my teacher turned ...