Or maybe the right one.
The strangest part was that everyone had trusted her.
She had worked at the school for nearly twenty years.
Parents praised her.
Teachers respected her.
Nobody had imagined that the woman smiling beside them every morning was hiding thousands of dollars in a locked cabinet.
But Grandma later told me something I never forgot.
“Bad people don’t always look frightening, Daniel. Sometimes they look exactly like the people everyone trusts.”
For a while, I was afraid to stay alone in any classroom.
Whenever the final bell rang, I packed my bag faster than everyone else.
Grandma always waited outside.
Exactly where I could see her.
Months later, the school held a meeting about what had happened.
New rules were introduced.
Teachers were no longer allowed to keep young students alone after school without notifying parents or another staff member.
The financial system was changed too.
