Lawyer Up

Mrs. Miller couldn’t watch as her daughters languished in depression and PTSD. They could barely eat and wouldn’t even leave their rooms. Sadie spent her days sleeping while Sally sobbed through the night. They both had panic attacks and woke up screaming in the middle of the night.
The worried mom dug into her savings, phoning a lawyer friend to take on their case.
“Defamation, negligence, and gross negligence,” she said over the call. The school had ruined her daughters’ future. It would rue the day it decided to cross them.
To protect the privacy of those depicted, some names, locations, and identifying characteristics have been changed and are products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblances to actual events, places, or persons, living or dead, are entirely coincidental.