Innocent Anna
As I sat in my room talking to Nell about my problems with the bus, Christian and school. I heard the school bus for the neighborhood kids pull up. I had only been successful at getting one boot off my foot.
“My kids are here.” I told her, while standing up to look out the window. They were all in front of my house talking to their friends. "Y'all come on up here so yall can eat and then yall can go back outside.”
When they saw me their friends started walking away, making they way home. When a car I’ve never seen pulled up. A man got out of the passenger seat and started talking to the kids. They seemed to know him so I just sat in the window watching them. He was asking them a lot of questions, like who was supposed to be watching them, why they were outside, had they eaten anything. He seemed angry and he was pissing me off questioning them like that.
“Yall get in here now.” I said more forcefully than I needed to but my temper was rising.