Gemotions

Eliza spun in her desk chair, the apology letter clutched in her hand, the paper crinkling with the force of her grip. It was from Thomas, the boy who’d replaced her as Head Girl, due to a cruel rumour she'd started. She felt a sense of giddy energy, and a desperate need to move.

She felt an irresistible urge to act. She got up, and began to hop around the office, singing a show tune. She then looked out her window to the city, feeling as though she could fly over the skyscrapers. She then decided, at last, to respond. She would begin by drawing a cartoon of him, with an overly large nose, and then write.