Double update today because I had two short endings. This was actually going to be the real ending but I felt like the Yue one had more meaning. But I still wanted to share this version too. Thanks so much to everyone who read and reviewed and stuck with these characters on their journeys.
Kyoshi flipped through a stack of papers.
'My Wan High' by Teo Daiami
'Wan High Woes' by Katara Nanouk
'Autobiography Assignment' by TyLee BoYang
'My Autobiography' by Usha Haraku
'Slice' by Mai Eiko
'How To Survive W.H With A Baby Bump' by Suki Takayubi
'Wan to Xi' by Azula Kasai
'Behind The Ball' by Kori Cho-Diatan
And the brilliantly titled,
'School Assignment Thing' By Chan Haga
The boy had sent her a hasty email with a babbled apology and the real title. She decided to let it slid, at least he had turned his in unlike Chu-Leng.
Each student brought his or her own flavor. It was haunting in a way to see how each of them had recounted such an eventful year. Some of them were painful, raw and uncut looks into their minds. It was no wonder, Mrs. BoYang had thanked her for the assigning the autobiography in the first place. There was one autobiography she had left to read, it sat on her desk glaring at her. It was an unfinished draft, one that he had snuck onto her desk, ripped and uncared for. Scrawled in dark lead was the name 'Jet Akunin'. Kyoshi thought of setting it to the side. But curiosity got the better of her.
She had, afterall, wanted to know exactly what each and every one of her students was thinking.
"Finish grading yet?" Macmu-Ling asked.
"Not quite." She replied.
"You chose a good year to assign that one." Macmu-Ling replied.
"I wouldn't call it good. But it was eventful." Kyoshi replied sipping from her coffee. She couldn't help but feeling terrible for not reading them all sooner. Perhaps she could have been of help. "You don't know the half of what these kids go through."
"Is that right?" Macmu-Ling asked.
"Sometimes I think that they go through more than we ever will."