“Say bye to your Mommy and then we’ll go play, okay?”

Jolene nodded. “Bye, Mommy.” And with those simple words she walked away, still holding the woman’s hand. Bette was quite shocked how easy it had gone. When she couldn’t see her daughter anymore, she turned around and walked away from the school. The thought of not having her daughter close to her and that she now had made one of the biggest steps in her short life, made her emotional and when she reached her car, she was crying. She got into the car and then looked at herself in the rearview mirror.

“Why the hell am I crying?” She asked herself and tried to wipe away her tears. After a while, it worked and she started the car. She drove home and asked herself what she would do. Her son was also in school, so what the hell would she do all day? Oh, maybe she could do some work from home.

She arrived home and began working immediately. She tried to get her thoughts of little Jolene in school out of her head but she couldn’t. For some reason, she was scared.

What if this was the start of a lifetime of bullying for her little girl? She knew that she was being psycho but her own history of being bullied made her scared. Scared of what would happen to her kid.

Her son, Sterling, had been bullied to. Now that he was finally beginning to get taller and was kickboxing, they finally left him alone but the previous years in school had not been fun for him. 9 years, from when he was 4 years old until he was 13, he had always been bullied because he was short and had cleft lip. He had surgery but the scar was still visible which is why the kids called him bunny and squirrel. Eventually, they began hiding his books, throwing his stuff out of the window, excluding him,… Everything a kid doesn’t want to go through.

Bette tried everything to stop it, she let Sterling change schools, she talked to the parents of the kids, the head of the school, to the bullies… Nothing helped. A few weeks back, Sterling hit a boy that had been bullying him for over two years. And now, it had stopped, people were scared of him and some guys even wanted to be his friend which was pretty amazing to Sterling. He barely had had any friends.

What had happened to her and Sterling made Bette scared for what would happen to Jolene. Would they do the same to her?

Bette sighed and tried to concentrate on her work. But instead of thinking about work or her kids, she thought about the teacher that had helped Jolene feel comfortable.

She had those big, hazel eyes that seemed to radiate emotion. Long blond hair and long legs… Man, they were endless. Her smile seemed to out shine the sun and the sparkles in her eyes seemed like stars.

Bette had never felt like this. So… mesmerized by someone, after just one look. Being totally moved by one person with a smile. She hadn’t felt that for a man or a woman but that the teacher was a woman made her a little bit scared.

She sighed; this was probably just a girl crush that would go away like it always had, it wasn’t the first time something like this had happened. No big deal, right?