Mama-s Secret Parent Teacher Conference -final- ✦

Elena stared at the words. The cruelty of a dead child’s foresight. The tenderness of it. She had spent two years trying to rebuild herself into a person who had never had a son, because the grief was a physical amputation. And now, these teachers—these guardians of a secret curriculum—had decided she was finally broken enough .

The silence stretched. Finally, Mr. Davison removed his glasses and cleaned them, a stall tactic as old as teaching itself. Mama-s Secret Parent Teacher Conference -Final-

Davison started to speak, but she raised a hand. Elena stared at the words