Glitter Glue

Trouble

I had only been alone for one reason. A reason I had never even thought to consider. I was supposed to be at school, but I wasn't. Thomas was at his preschool and Mom was at work, and now I'm scared of whatever may be coming. It almost terrified me more than anything, but I went out to face the consequences.

When I walked in, I saw Mom scolding Thomas louder than she ever had! I stepped up beside Mom and she immediately shut her mouth and slunk off to her room. She seemed afraid of me. This was new and part me grew even more fearful, but the other part liked the shame written in bold across her forehead.

Instead of hugging me as he usually did, Thomas stared at the ground. No one's perfect, I know I make it sounds like Thomas is, but he's not, and I could tell from the look on his tear stained face that this time, he had done something wrong. So, I bent down to his size and began talking.

"Thomas," I began," did you get in trouble at school today?"

He slowly looked up at me, but quickly averted his eyes back to the ground.

"What did you do?" I didn't really want to know, but it's what I have to do to take care of my most precious possession.

Then, he opened his mouth slowly,"I pushed... I pushed Turner off the swing set. I said sorry though!!!" He seemed genuinely sorry.

"Why did you push Turner?"

"W...well I was the one swingin' first and then I stood up and Turner took my swing and I wanted to still swing!!"

"Then why did you stand up?"

" I don't know," he mumbled towards the ground.

"Are you very, very sorry?"

"Yeah!!!! I promise! Really I am!," he shouted wide eyed and frantically.

" ok. No more pushing ok? Promise??" I held out my pinky and he crossed his with mine.

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Mom didn't come out of her room once while I was anywhere ! I was beginning to worry and thought of going and checking on her. It was scary but I thought I knew what to do. I only had to remember that she's broken too.