The Little Things
LOCKDOWN! LOCK! LIGHTS! OUT OF SIGHT! I sprint down the hallway of my choir room to check the hallway and lock the door, not thinking. While running back, reaching out to turn off hallway lights along the way, my retractable keychain hits my lip. In the main area of my room, 28 middle school boys are staring at me frozen. I yell at them to get behind the risers breaking stride briefly to shut the last two light switches off. Thank God my voice started coming back today. Heading towards the spot I always take behind the risers, (the only space visible to anyone who enters the room), I trip over my piano bench from the sudden dark and miraculously keep my footing. Thank God I wore my high tops today. Okay, next task. Checking off in an app who is safe, absent or missing. Thank God I charged my phone last night. One of the seventh graders who usually fights me on everything, today wanted to check for their inhaler with the nurse. After a brief argu...