Fake Smiles Today they asked my class to come up to the stage. Then called our names one by one off of a folded page. Finally they said my name, and I gave a timid smile. My teacher cleared her throat But didn't speak for quite a while. I started to wonder if she had forgotton the words she had clearly well rehearsed. So I was surprised when she announced that I hadn't been her best but I wasn't her worst. I had always sat in the back and would be whispering and smiling with my friends. But my smile was what she loved most in the very end. Then she went on to say that she never, not once saw my smile fade away. But as she spoke I felt the corners of my lips slowly start to slip. Because the thing she liked most was all just an act, and the smile I wore was the only thing keeping me intact.y