Till Dirt Do Us Part by Teresa Trent

Author:Teresa Trent
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Cozy Mystery
Publisher: Teresa Trent
Published: 2017-04-23T16:00:00+00:00

Her tone was unbelievable. Biting was rampant at Chickadee’s, and it was bad enough they had to have a parent meeting. I would be sure to be there and arrive promptly.

When I arrived the next morning, the tiny chairs were lined up in rows. Parents that filled them were scrunched up with elbows on their knees. I thought I was arriving promptly, but when I checked my watch it was right on nine o’clock. There was one chair left, and that was front and center. Nobody liked to sit close to the teacher, even after achieving drinking age. Miss Aileen bustled in, leaving a young teacher at the door. She looked back at her and dismissively waved her away to go and watch the children.

“Thank you all for arriving on time today.” She eyed me. “We know you’re all busy, but whenever we have a problem here at Chickadee’s, I think it’s good for us to all come together and solve it as a community.” Many of the parents around me nodded in agreement.

“The biting started with one child.” Aileen’s eyes zeroed in on me, and the rest of the audience members followed her gaze. I pulled up my collar uncomfortably. What were they going to do? Put a scarlet “B” on my forehead?

“After that, it seems many of the children imitated this little girl’s actions.” Again, she gestured toward me. I was getting disgusted with this woman and her attitude.

Aileen then took the focus off me and made a grand gesture to the entire group. “At this time, we have had biting incidents that originated from every child in the two-year-old classroom. It only takes one bad apple to screw up the rest of the harvest.”

Once again, I felt the other parents’ stares heating up my back. Enough already.

“Just what are you trying to say, Aileen? My daughter caused a scourge of bad behavior? What kind of proof do you have that my daughter was the patient zero biter?”

“Eyewitness testimony.”

I pulled myself up from the chair, not letting Ms. Aileen have physical superiority over me. The Bite-Out at Chickadee’s Corral had just begun.

“And just exactly who was this eyewitness?”

“Now, you know I must keep confidentiality.”

“Get serious. That only works on Law and Order. There is no confidentiality among two-year-olds.”

Ms. Aileen folded her arms stubbornly. Was I going to have to get the rubber hose out to get information out of her? To my surprise, I heard a chair scraped from behind me. It was Bubba Maclellan, the man who sold me my last set of tires stuttered.

“Miss, Miss Aileen? I would like to know who the eyewitness is too. Little Bubba has never bit anybody. Not until he came here.”

“And he learned it from somebody’s little girl,” Aileen added.

“So, who was it? Who’s the snitch?” I asked, feeling the unrest of the parents.

“I just don’t think ...”

Several more chairs scooted behind me. More parents were standing up for their children’s rights.

“Who?”

“Yeah, who is it?”

“It’s only fair, Aileen.”

Finally, Aileen shouted, “Fine.

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