however. The day had flown by and it was already time for the last class of the day. Lucky for her the last class of the day was one of her three honors biology classes. She stood at the door greeting students and offering them a smile as they entered her classroom. She smiled an extra large smile at Jay Davidson when he walked into the classroom. Some teachers might be uncomfortable teaching the superintendent’s stepchild, but not Caroline. She was comfortable with her role in the classroom. She knew what she was doing, and it also helped that she and Abigail were best friends. There’d be no complaints from that quarter.
Caroline glanced around the filling classroom and returned several smiles. Her most timid smile came from a girl sitting in the back row. She looked vaguely familiar, but Caroline couldn’t quite place her. She decided she must have taught a sibling of the familiar looking student the year before. Something about those golden-brown eyes definitely tugged at her memory. It would probably come to her later.
The tardy bell rang. Caroline glanced out the door and down the hallway. She didn’t see any last minute stragglers. She shut the door and turned her welcoming first day smile on the students. “Welcome to seventh period honors biology with Ms. Johnson.” She looked around the room. “I trust that matches everyone’s schedule?” She received several smiles and a few nods of confirmation. “All right then. I’ll start with attendance. That will help me learn your names.”
Caroline went through all the names on the classroom roster. She reached the end and realized that the familiar looking student from the back of the room had never raised her hand. Caroline did a quick silent count and realized she had an extra student. She didn’t want to single the girl out on the first day of school, so she made a general statement to all the students. “That’s the end of the list. Is there anyone whose name I didn’t call? If so raise your hand please.”
The black-haired brown-eyed student from the back of the room raised her hand. “We just moved to Florida this week,” she explained. “I picked up my schedule from one of the guidance counselors this morning.”
Caroline sent the student an encouraging smile. “May I see your schedule please?” She walked to the back of the room and held out an unsteady hand. As soon as she took the folded piece of paper she knew what she was going to see there. She glanced at the spot for student name and indeed the words Sarah Wakefield were neatly typed inside the box. No wonder she looked so familiar. She was dainty and feminine, but she had Kyle’s thick wavy black hair, just a lot more of it. And those were definitely his amber colored eyes that peered back at her from the student’s face. Kyle’s only daughter was now a 14 year old freshman and she was officially one of Caroline’s students.
Caroline took a deep breath and called on all of her professional skill and discipline while she inwardly cursed fate. She felt her fingers bite into the palm of her hand as she fought not to let her welcoming smile falter. “Welcome to Florida, Sarah.” She handed the schedule back to the student and moved to the front of the room to pass out the class syllabus.
Despite the shock to her system and the discovery that threatened to uproot her entire world, the fifty minute period passed quickly. Caroline felt her breathing return to normal about the same time the three o’clock bell rang. “Class dismissed! I’ll see everyone tomorrow afternoon.” Caroline busied herself by straightening her desk while the students filed out of the classroom. They were too busy chatting about their first adventures as high school students to notice that their teacher was preoccupied with straightening a desk that was already one of the neatest in the
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