Confused, Haley asked Sarah what it meant.
What the little girl revealed next changed everything.
Randy had not ruined the classroom display.
Sarah explained through tears that Randy kept insisting he hadn’t done it.
“He said, ‘My mom knows I don’t lie,’” she whispered.
But Ms. Bell forced him to write the apology anyway.
Then Sarah revealed something even more devastating.
Right before Randy collapsed, he told her his chest was “doing the squished thing again.”
Again.
Haley nearly collapsed herself hearing those words.
Randy had apparently been hiding chest pain because Haley had been sick with the flu, and he didn’t want to worry her before Mother’s Day.
Sarah tried helping him the only way she knew how.
She told him to drink water.
Moments later, Randy fell from his chair.
Paramedics rushed in.
Chaos exploded around the classroom.
And while the adults focused on the emergency, Sarah quietly took Randy’s backpack because she remembered his final request.
“Guard the unicorn until Mother’s Day.”
So she did.
