Be Safe

Joyce Knightly: February 29th,20XX

“Aaron calm down! The kids’ll be fine! We… We just need to trust them!”

Never mind the fact that my voice trembled with every word and my heart threatened to beat out of my chest, I focused on calming Aaron down before he got out of the car and flew over to the school.

I grabbed him by the arm and tried to pull him back down into his seat, but I just ended up rising into the air with him. We were still wearing our seatbelts, so his antics weren’t that noticeable, but the hard fabric of the belt dug into my shoulder.

Well, even if it had been noticeable, I’d taken one of my automatic cars today. I didn’t trust myself to drive in this state of mind, so I was using the car’s auto-driver function.

“Aaron!”

He finally looked at me and realized what he was doing.

“Sorry. I’m just nervous. I mean, how could this happen on their first day of school?”

That’s what I wanted to know as well.

It would have been laughable if it wasn’t so awful.