The Babysitter by Nancy Bush

The Babysitter by Nancy Bush

Author:Nancy Bush [Bush, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781420150759
Published: 2020-05-06T00:00:00+00:00


The teenager had to be put in her place. That’s how it starts . . . when they’re young. Did I want to kill her . . . ? I thought so. I took the knife to the house with that intent. But it all got away from me. She ran to the children.

Next time . . . if there’s a next time . . . I hope there isn’t a next time . . .

But if there is, I won’t fail again.

Chapter Eighteen

Monday morning, Jamie arrived early at the school, where she was handed the day’s assignments for the students of her Language Arts class, and then one of the senior students who helped out in the office showed her around the school and to her classroom.

Jamie felt a few butterflies. Always the case on the first day at a new school. She stood beside the teacher’s desk and smiled at the students as they filtered in. One of the boys slid a look at the others, but then stopped and said to her, “You’re Harley’s mom?”

“Yes, I am. And you are?”

“Greer,” he said.

Jamie tried not to react. She surreptitiously checked him out as he headed toward a group of boys at the back of the room. He was nice-looking and had a confident way about him that she suspected had been the draw for Harley.

Once they were all in their seats, Jamie told them about their teacher’s unfortunate accident and that she’d said that today’s class would be used for writing their semester essays, the theme of which concerned future career choices. A collective groan rose from the back of the room where the boys had congregated. Jamie didn’t have a seating chart. Maybe there wasn’t one. But all the boys gathered together seemed like a no-go. Still, until it became a problem, she wasn’t going to make waves.

Class went pretty well for the first twenty minutes, then the whispering started.

It wasn’t, as Jamie had suspected, the boys. Mostly it was a group of girls who were trying to get the boys’ attention. Jamie slid a look at the main girl, who gave her a sheepish shrug of her shoulders and a big smile when she caught Jamie watching her, before turning her attention back to her paper.

Jamie pretended she hadn’t heard, but she knew what the girl had said. It was a comment to the tallest boy in the class, who she’d heard Greer call Tyler. Was this, then, Tyler Stapleton, Icky Vicky’s son? She glanced down her class roster and found his name.

“You were there, too,” the girl had accused, to which he’d shaken his head.

“Try Troy and Greer,” Tyler whispered loudly back at her.

Jamie thought she heard another female voice say, “Fuck those sophomore girls,” but wasn’t sure.

As if they recognized she was about to step in, they all put their eyes on their papers and started writing. She cruised around the room a few minutes later and learned that most of them were actually working.



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