MikaelaIt’s been one of those days. You know, the days when you’re head won’t stop pounding, your mind is everywhere but where it should be, and you go all afternoon before you realize you’re wearing your shirt inside out. And by the end of the school day, I’m totally feeling it. In fact, this is one of the few days where I've been glad to send my students out of the classroom and where I really don’t want to watch them go.
Instead, all I want to do is sit back in my desk, thumb through a teacher’s edition textbook, and highlight till my hand has turned yellow. It’s my guilty pleasure – my relaxation technique. And no one is going to stop me from devouring the next three lessons for social studies.
… until Maddie walks in. It was the second day I hadn’t seen her in my classroom. I won’t
