Children were chaotic characters but sometimes their chaos worked for the benefit of others. Alisha couldn’t remember that last time she had laughed this hard. Truth be told, Alisha was close to reprimanding Aarav for the comment he made about Hayley but the more he spoke, the more she eased in her seat and soon, she was struggling not to double over in laughter as she parked the car and stepped out, her eyes accidentally catching Hayley’s eye. Up until this point, Alisha hadn’t really seen Hayley grin the way she was now, hell, Alisha couldn’t even remember a time when she’d seen Hayley laugh like this at all either; her face was vibrant, flushed red around her hollowed cheeks and her eyes were bright under long red lashes, they sparkled like the forest did on a cool spring morning when

