Emma woke up in a gray mood. She could tell immediately upon waking that it was a cloudy day. With heavy feet, she got out of bed and prepared for the day ahead. Everything started to go wrong when Jake wasn’t on his bus. Emma was waiting for him by the school’s main entrance. Jake’s bus came and all the children inside filed out. There was no sign of the boy. Emma stood there for a few moments, not sure about what, if anything, she should do. She imagined that Jake wouldn’t just disappear again without letting her know. There was probably a reasonable explanation why he wasn’t there but, in the back of Emma’s mind, something of a small panic began to grow. It was the fear that whatever had happened to Mr Milligan had now happened to Jake. When she finally went to her classroom, Miss Robins saw her walk in and she took a pointed glance at her watch. Emma looked down at the floor and made her way to her desk. The day’s math lesson was about reflections, translations, and rotations of different shapes.
