Madison sat at her desk in the fourth grade classroom, staring dazedly out of the window by her desk. It was a beautiful fall day in mid-October but Madison had more than the crisp autumn afternoon to look forward to. Today was her last day in school before she went on vacation. Her favorite aunt (or rather, her only aunt) was getting married on an island off of the coast in a little more than a week. Madison was excited about escaping school for three weeks, regardless of the fact that her parents had been entertaining an idea of hiring a tutor for those three weeks so she didn't fall way behind in her studies. Her three-week absence had made her quite popular among her classmates, even though she didn't really consider more than two or three of them friends of hers. It made her laugh to know how much her classmates already despised school having only been back for less than a month. Madison...well...she was indifferent to schooling. She liked it, but she tended to get bored very easily.
Madison was called away from her daydreaming by the sound of her teacher's voice directing her to answer the next question in their math lesson. Madison had not been paying attention to the lesson, but she was pretty smart when it came to math. The teacher repeated the question and Madison effortlessly answered it before turning back to the window.
It was towards the end of the day and she could see some of the parents waiting on the street outside to pick up their children. Her eyes brightened considerably when she saw her daddy among the throng. Her expression turned even happier when she saw Katherine standing next to her daddy. Her daddy hardly ever came to pick her up from school and she loved spending time with her new grandmother whenever she could. This day couldn't be any more perfect!
As she sat watching, completely oblivious to the goings-on in her classroom, she bit her bottom lip as she saw her daddy kiss Katherine quickly on the mouth. Unsure of what the reasoning behind that was, she turned away and stared blankly at the polished wooden top of her desk. She tried to pass it off as just a family thing, a show of the respect and admiration between a mother and a son (or, son-in-law, in this case), but something seemed wrong in the way they had embraced.
Madison was pulled from her musings by the sound of the school bell signaling the end of the school day. Stuffing her notebook into her backpack, she bolted from the room. When she emerged outside, her daddy and Katherine were standing apart, waiting with happy faces for her arrival. Madison wasn't sure what to do with what she had seen, so she dismissed it from her mind, for the time being, and ran into her daddy's open arms.