Chapter 10
Saturday morning, Isabelle was wide awake with nothing to do. She hadn’t brought any papers home to grade, had no lesson plans to write, and thought she had everything pretty much covered until Christmas break, so there wasn’t even any reason to spend several mindless hours trudging through the postings on Teachers Pay Teachers. So… after some quality time with her kitty and making sure her bird’s cage was good and clean, she decided to go for a walk.
Dressed in jeggings with a long orange sweater and her favorite brown knee-high boots, she slipped on a matching leather jacket and a hat her mother had knitted her last fall, grabbed her phone just in case there was an emergency, and headed out.
The air was crisp, and she inhaled deeply, clearing her mind as the wind whipped a
