Ring ring...

The phone rang. The teacher seemed surprised, as if she wasn’t expecting any call. When she saw the name at the screen, she quickly picked it up. 

“Kevin?!”-she said as she rushed through the door.

We all looked at each other. She had been acting anxious the last couple of days. Some students even said they had seen her arguing with her husband outside school once... But nobody could have imagined where all this was headed.

It was the seventh hour of the day, so we were the only class in our floor. Suddenly, we heard crying. We opened the back door and saw our teacher sobbing and sitting on the floor. 

Before we realised, she was back in the room and, with tears in her eyes, she took off her ring and threw it on the table. It started spinning. Nobody said a word, we simply stood there looking at it.