She Didn't Get The Job

Michael, in a bid to make his mom feel better, thought it best to change the topic of conversation. After all, something interesting had happened at school, and he had looked forward to telling his mom about it the entire time.

'Mom, guess what?' he asked her. 'Our teacher showed us a video on his phone. It was a video of us. Me and Judy. He said that we were popular on the internet,' the innocent boy revealed.

Susan's eyes widened.

'What are you talking about?' She replied in panic, but quickly shifted her mood back to being gentle, thinking that Michael was only making a thoughtless statement. He took his mom's phone from her. Susan allowed him to take it, thinking that he only wanted to play games on it as usual. She busied herself with hugging Judy and trying to make her feel as good as she could because Judy had started sobbing, seeing her mom in pain and tears. Michael scrolled through his mom's phone like an expert. Somehow, he had crammed the title of the video when his teache