“She also said that if I don't go back to class and leave Ashley here, that she won’t call you.

And Ashley needed you,” he breathed.

And I could see his small hands trembling the more he spoke.

I watched her calmly.

Red gleamed in my vision.

I gave her a chance, and she still dared to lie to me.

How badly I wanted to squeeze her tiny neck of her body.

I wanted to make her suffer for thinking she could treat my children like trash.

I wanted to peel the layers of her skin off, and watch her bleed and cry in pain while the light slowly dimmed...