She Framed Me As Unfit So I’ll See Her In Court Chapter 29
A few days later, the community forums had completely turned around.
The people who had once shared the video and debated whether I was fit to be a mother had begun condemning Caleb and Sloan instead. Some apologized to me. More kept insisting they had merely been “misled” and had “only been worried about the child.”
As if shifting the blame onto one video could make their words disappear.
I screenshotted the page with the most apologies, saved it to the evidence folder, and closed the forum.
Belated goodwill was not worth my emotions.
The school also released the result of its investigation.
Principal Hanley was suspended, and the school board began reviewing her responsibility for concealing surveillance footage and obstructing the investigation. On his first day in office, the new principal issued a strongly worded anti-bullying notice stating explicitly that any report involving student safety must be documented and preserved as evidence and could not be privately handled under the excuse of a “family dispute.”
The things I had begged them to do again and again had finally become formal policy.
A week later, I heard that Sloan’s parents had come from out of state to take her back home.
Caleb had already changed every lock on his mansion and canceled her access, as if he couldn’t clear away an incriminating piece of evidence fast enough.
That afternoon, I took Maya out for ice cream.
As we passed the corner, she pointed into the distance. “Mommy, that moving truck is so big.”
I saw the company logo on the side, but I didn’t look up at that house. I only tightened my hold on her little hand and led her across the street.
Later, someone said that before Sloan got into her parents’ car, she looked back in the direction of my apartment.
I don’t know.
And I don’t care.