She was wiping her nose with one hand and dabbing at her eyes with the other. “I’ve just had a shit day.”
I looked up at her. “Kids sucked?”
Janet looked away. Something told me that I shouldn’t have said ‘Kids’. Students? Sure. Kids? No.
“They were fine,” she said. “I wish they were still here.” The hair on the back of my neck stood on end. Yellow Alert. “It could keep me from thinking about life right now.” A perfectly reasonable response…
Deep breath.
“What’s going on?” I asked. “Why does today suck?”