Except for Tuesday.

On Tuesday and Tuesday only, your Mom drops you off at school. The windows on her Ford Kuga are tinted, but she still wears the darkest of sunglasses. She always seems preoccupied as you climb from the seat. Today you decide to watch if she watches you, thinking maybe you’ll wave from the top step.

She doesn’t wait. But, after nearly racing away, she parks halfway down the block. You hide in the doorway watching. In a few minutes, Mrs. McCallister pulls up and lets out Sandy, Allen and Jake. They start to great you as they enter the grade school, but you put a finger over your lips and pull them aside. Mrs. McCallister hurriedly drives down the block and after she passes your mother, the Kuga shifts into drive and slowly idles out of the parking spot.

Your mother is following Mrs. McCallister.

What a mysterious life she lives.