Gemotions

The score was a wound. Sophia had received the lowest grade on her debate project. She felt a sting, a knot forming in her stomach. Her hours of preparation were dismissed with a stroke of a pen. This felt like a personal attack.

She refused to be defeated. She would revisit the project with a new perspective, tearing through it with a focus she never knew she possessed. She'd challenge every critique, every point of negativity. She would make them understand her vision. She would rewrite her assignment, and she would win.