"...It's okay, just go to the classroom with Xavier. Cherline isn't coming to school today," Yolanda Bardot snapped back to reality and stuffed her phone into her pocket.
Her face pale as a sheet.
"Why isn't she coming?" Edbert Walker stood there, not leaving, as if he couldn't rest easy without seeing Cherline.
"Idiot! Why do you care so much?" Yolanda suddenly lost her temper for no reason and shrieked.
As soon as the words left her mouth.
She startled herself—she had just lost her temper with her own son, clearly upset inside...
Could she tell her child that Cherline could come to school if she wanted, and stay away if she didn't feel like it?
She didn't want to emphasize the Lindsey children's sense of superiority; that would make her look like an incompetent parent...
"Mommy, why are you yelling at me!" Edbert had grown up without ever seeing his mommy lash out at him like that before.
"Little Edbert... Mommy didn't mean to..."
