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Making It Up To You

By Fedski

STUPID

My Dear Serena…

I never thought you were stupid. Although my initial reaction to your 30 scored test cried otherwise. From the moment I looked up from that test and into your eyes I could see that you had put all the effort you could have mustered into that one test and I felt like a fool. Good grades had always come easy to me. With not much else to occupy my time and my apparently abnormal interest in learning everything I could, it had always been easy for me to study and research and experiment. It wasn't until grade five that I truly began to understand my obsession with school work was irregular for that of a ten year old. Seeing others struggle with school work I assumed that they simply did not work hard enough for their marks, but when you looked at me so forlornly that moment I insulted your intelligence, was when I truly began to realize that wisdom isn't determined by test marks, but by common sense.

I was amazed by how unobservant you seemed to everyone else, yet you knew exactly the correct motives behind people. You could tell when people were hiding things from you but more impressively you knew when to let them. You never seemed to push for your way even if you knew it would be easier on everyone else in the end, you knew that people had to learn through their own mistake and that babying them and their decisions would only hurt them more in the end.

You knew that friendship was more important than anything and you strived to keep the harmony in every situation. You took all the bad aspects and presented your friends with all the good ones. You helped Amy to know when enough was enough, you helped Raye release her anger over her parents' dysfunction, you helped Lita to realize that there is a time and a place to enforce her strength and you helped Mina to see that there is such a thing as true friends. You helped Andrew to know that there are people like him who are just as optimistic and I know that he treasured your brightness; it kept him cheerful and sunny like you.

But most of all you helped me. I never thought I could ever be tutored by you, but you helped me to learn that there is no way that I could not enjoy life so long as I was living for the ones I loved. I'm sorry that I ever called you stupid; I was just too dense to see that you were so bright.