Chapter 50: Ms. Rosaline and a Resolute Cacey

T-12 Days to Incident

#The Infirmary

It was Ms. Rosaline. She had been watching the duo since they got in. She liked Tom like the brother she didn't have. Tom's misery brought about a tsunami of sympathy in her kind heart. She started treating him like a little brother.

Bullying had become rampant at school. The violence many students had been going through made her restless. She had been treating misearable wounds on students—female and male alike. She even told the principal about these. However, her words of worry fell on deaf ears. Or, perhaps, there was an even deeper reason for his deafness?

Rosaline was an orphan. Growing up alone in an orphanage, she came to take the other younger children as her siblings. When she moved out to study nursing, she felt she had cut her heart and left it out there in the orphanage.

That could have been another reason, perhaps, for this affection for these distressed students, especially Tom.