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The Accident
Jackie's students had all gone home for the day. It had been a good day despite the fact that she was tired. She shouldn't have been tired, she'd even taken the morning off.
To her relief her students had been very good for their substitute and as a reward Jackie had put ten more marbles in the marble jar which the kids loved.
Jackie sat down at the back table in her classroom. She had a stack of papers that needed graded that she wanted to get to work on.
She sighed as she looked around the floor, it was a mess. "How does that happen? I just had the kids clean the floor." She thought to herself.
She got to work on her papers.
"Are you ready Jackie?" She heard a voice from the doorway say.
She looked up and saw her two teaching partners and friends Lisa Masters and Sue Anderson standing there.
"Ready for what?" Jackie asked.
"We were going to plan lessons for next week today after school, did you forget?" Lisa asked.
"Oops, yes I'm sorry I did forget." Jackie said as she began to clear the back table so her friends could sit down.
"We can do it tomorrow if you're busy." Sue offered.
"Yeah, or we could do it in my room." Lisa said.
"Nope, my room is good, just give me a couple minutes to get ready." Jackie told her friends.
Jackie cleared them a spot and the three teachers got to work.
They'd been working for only about ten minutes when Jackie's cell phone started ringing.
Jackie dug her phone out of her purse Sara Sidle the caller ID read.
"Sorry guys but I have to take this." Jackie told her friends.
"No problem." Her friends assured her.
"Hello?" Jackie said as she answered the phone.
"Jackie, it's Sara, Nick's been in a car accident, he's hurt, you need to come to Desert Palm right now." Sara told her frantically.
"I'll be right there." Jackie said before hanging up the phone.
"Nick was in a car accident, I have to go." Jackie told her friends as she jumped out of her chair.
She gathered up her purse and car keys and then raced out of the room.
Sue and Lisa ran out into the hallway with her. "Jackie do you want us to go with you?" Lisa called after her friend who was already half way down the hall.
"No thanks." Jackie called back as she raced past the secretary's desk and out the front door, not stopping to explain to the secretary why she was leaving almost an hour early.
Jackie sped to the hospital and pulled her van to a screeching halt in a parking place before running inside the hospital.
She saw Sara sitting on a bench with her head down. Jackie's heart sank.
TBC….