After a generous amount of silence has passed, I see a girl enter the room. She was brown skinned the way I once was. She had dark hair and eyes, similar to the color of mine. Or maybe the color I once had. I was colorless now. Just like the rest of them. Something about the girl was unusual. Maybe it was just that she reminded me of, well, me. I was instantly infatuated with her.
"Shall we get class started?" The teacher smiles …show more content…
We're a liberal classroom so we emphasize equality. With all your scores added together we get a total of 20! We have 4 students so each of you receive 5 points to begin with. See class, we're ALL equal," the teacher happily announces.
"Yay! Me likey when I'm equal. Or else I is the sad," the Asian student from before said, or at least that's what I could make out of what he said.
The teacher whipped around the room and commented on our gender, race, and sexuality. Apparently I'm now sexually ambiguous? What does that mean?
"I'm gay, fat, unhealthy, transgender, Asian, nobody likes me, the pale girl says I smell like meat, and I once watched a bird die," the student commented on his unfortunate lifestyle, however this time he had more to add.
"Congratulation! You won by a total of... 13 privilege points. You get to go on the trip!" The teacher congratulated him.
"Yay! We knew you could do it!" The pale girl exclaimed, applauding him.
I could see the brown-skinned girl getting absolutely flustered. Her eyes were twitching, her lips pouted, her eyebrows furrowed in frustration. I completely disregarded the teacher's warning and took her hand and dashed out the classroom. Funny, the exit works