01/08/2026
The sound of the locker door slamming echoed down the marble hallway.
My daughter flinched.
The other girls laughed.
I was standing twenty feet away, pretending not to see it — like every other parent who had been trained to look respectable instead of protective. My fingers curled around the edge of my purse so hard the leather creaked.
“Relax, Mom,” the headmistress said with a tight smile, her heels clicking as she passed me. “Girls will be girls.”
Girls will be girls.
That’s what she said after I watched my fourteen-year-old wipe spit off her blazer.
That’s what she said after the school counselor refused to return my emails.
That’s what my ex-husband said when he wired the tuition and stopped answering my calls.
They thought I was dramatic.
They thought I was paranoid.
They thought I was too small, too tired, too alone to fight back.
And for months, they were right.
Then last Tuesday night, at 1:17 AM, my phone buzzed.
No name. No profile photo.
Just one line:
“I think you should see what they’re really doing.”
Under it was a screenshot.
I didn’t sleep after that.
I replayed every meeting, every dismissal, every patronizing smile. The way the board members would lean back in their chairs while I spoke. The way the bursar would fold her hands like she was praying I’d just go away.
They don’t know what I know now.
They don’t know about the envelope sitting in my bag as I type this.
They don’t know how many laws were broken in that screenshot.
They don’t know that the person who sent it was just the first domino.
The next board meeting is in forty-three minutes.
They think I’m here to beg again.
I didn’t cry.
I just smiled — because I knew what was in the envelope.
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