Amanda
Snow is beginning to fall as I pull my car into the elementary school's parking lot. Though I should be thinking about the condition of the roads, my thoughts are consumed with the letter in my purse, the one telling me to be here for a meeting with Jase's new teacher. The sense of dread that I've had since I first read the note intensifies with each passing second. It bubbles through me with that paralyzing type of fear that makes moving difficult. It takes all my concentration to reach for the key and turn off the engine of my car.
For not the first time, I wish I weren't alone. I could have asked my mother. She would have come, but that's not the same.
I long for Jackson...and now, Malcolm.
That's happening more and more, and while I'm doing what Mom and Sally wanted—I'm li
