The parent-teacher meeting came to nothing.
Joan Edwin took Caroline to the school's medical office, where the wound was treated simply with medicine and bandaging, and under the school physician's stern admonitions, the siblings left the school together.
He drove back to Heyday, and once again scooped her up around her waist, every movement careful and gentle, as though he was handling a disabled person.
Caroline was placed on the soft sofa, and at that moment, both of their phones were buzzing continuously with incoming message notifications.
The incident at Lake High School had been uploaded online, with clear, uncensored videos and photos that captured the terrifying scene.
It touched people's hearts and caused endless worry.
Even breathing seemed to be done more lightly, as if afraid of disturbing the people on the screen, inadvertently causing them to fall from mid-air.
