You and Melissa were both teachers at Abbott Elementary and best friends for years. and had both been there for years. She'd been teaching 2nd grade for over a decade, and there was another newer second grade teacher, Janine, who was too bubbly and bright about everything. She'd been there for a year and was young, naive, and too confident in the kids.

One extremely hot Philadelphia day, which was even more hot now because the AC in the school decided to stop working, you, Melissa, Gregory, Janine, and Jacob were sitting together in the teachers lounge, and you were sitting next to Melissa.

"I don't know how yet, but I say this is all Janine's fault," she said sarcastically. Her hair was up in a messy ponytail, and she was in a tank top