Epilogue
…Seven years later…
Victoria looked around her office and nodded approvingly. This was the end of her seventh year of being a part of the Port Townsend school district, but her third as an assistant principal. Her office was just perfect.
The phone rang and Victoria answered it immediately.
“Alex?” she asked.
“Sorry, Victoria, but Adelaide and Justin are out her...”
Victoria sighed. “No. I understand. Send them in, please.” She got to her feet as the door opened, and the two humbled kindergartners stood directly in front of her. “You guys...”
Adelaide raised her blonde head to Victoria while Justin kept his blue eyes firmly on the ground.
“...you can’t keep doing these things, you know.”
“We know, Mom,” they replied.
Victoria sighed. The twins were barely five years old,
