It was exactly 1:37PM when a call from the main office came through over the PA System that I was to report to the office to be released to my mom’s companion, Barbara. After the call came and I gathered my paraphernalia, I cogitated what could cause me to have to be released from class and be picked up so soon. “Did I have to go to the dentist to finish my root canal? No, that was last weekend. My shots for 6th grade? That was done too! Whats going on!?” I interrogated myself in my mind. I prepared to see my mom, but it was my mom’s friend, and to my when my mom had to work overtime, Barbara. “Hello June” she said, but with a dull, depressed tone of voice. “Was she sick, tired?” I asked in my head. But then she said the words to assure something
