I looked over the evidence before me. There wasn't much, I tell you. Cold-a-sacs are supposed to be a close knit community, but I saw none of that today, just an accident. Or so it seemed. There was no incriminating evidence that said it was anything but an accident. A sensible woman would know when she is beat and give in. I've never been a sensible woman.
I went back to the neighborhood, and tried to reenact the scene in my head. Mrs. Kidly would come around the bend, see the boy and hit her brakes, but this can be so. I hadn't noticed it before, but there was a crosswalk right were she hit him. That means it couldn't have been Joel's fault. Then I noticed something else. There were no streaks on the street where she would have hit the brakes. See, when a can comes to a sudden stop and swerves away from something, the rubber wheels leave skid marks on the road. But there were none, so Mrs. Kidly didn't try to stop and swerve out of the way when she hit Joel. Now, Mrs. Kidly is a smart woman, and you don't go trying to kill a kid over a stained glass window. So I went to look for other motives. I asked around to the neighbors, looked around and snooped around. 3 days, no dice. Then I saw it. I pulled out my camera. There was no way this was what I thought it was.