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Submitted to Contest #48
She could hear the tap-tap-tapping of a pencil from across the room. It reverberated inside her skull. Along with the ticking of the clock, the tapping of their teacher's computer keys, and her neighbor's leg bouncing up and down. The nervous heartbeats of her classmates beat like a drum. The history test was long and arduous, but she had finally turned it in. Now there was nothing to distract her from the constant noise assaulting her ears. Their annoying teacher had already tried to take her noise cancelling headphones this period, ...
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