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My thoughts are interrupted by my phone.
“Yeah,” I say as I take the call.
“Mr. Brody, this Diana Chambers calling from Sagebrush Middle School. Our principal, Mrs. Summers, would like you to come to the school immediately. Oscar and Henri are fighting again.” She takes a dramatic pause. “Ms. Fleming has already been phoned.”
“Shit.” I end the call as I sit up and swing my feet to the floor.
Selkie comes flying into the room, phone clutched between her fingers. “You’re not going to believe this!”
“Yeah. I got the call too. Gotta get dressed. We’ve been summoned.”
“No, I mean this time it’s your thug of a kid. He dug a grave in the soccer field and tried to put Henri in it.”
I defend my son. “And what did little miss sunshine do to provoke him?”
We stare at each like adversaries, then start getting dressed. Yep. My life will never be simple again.
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