Drinking: A Short Story

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It was just an ordinary day, I woke up and I decided I would go to my school and try and work on my Pride Class. I had gone to school plenty of times prior to this day keep in mind. Not one time did anybody ever question me for being there or even tell me that I couldn’t be there. Until two officers and an administrator walk into the classroom I was in. I was sitting down sewing a stuffed animal back together and they circled me and said that I needed to come with them to the office. Once we got to the office they asked me if I had been drinking. I thought I was dreaming or they were messing with me or something. But no jokes at all they were dead serious. Someone reported that I was drinking alcohol out of my hydroflask. One of the officers

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