Margot: A Short Story

She looked at them with disappointment and frailty. As the kids continue to look disgracefully at the ground, Margot abruptly dashes away. As she is running, several enraged thoughts and emotions enter and cloud her brain. As tears fell onto her pale lifeless cheek, she heard a pitter patter of rain on the roof. She was so out of sorts she took a wrong turn, and ended up outside. When she realized where she was, she sank to her knees in defeat. Margot looked up at the sky and started to wail. What was once a lagging trickle of rain. Is replaced by a massive gush of cold frozen bitter hail. All of a sudden, the teacher comes running out in disarray. She takes Margot inside to get dried off and to get some sleep. As she is headed inside, the

“We got to do something” one kid says.
“William! This was your idea you should fix this.” another kid protested.
“I- Hey this was all of our faults…So-!” he guiltily confesses.
“Well staring at the door is not going to help is it” one girl stated.
“Wanna go and play tag” one frantically tried to change the subject.
“It’s just Margot, she’ll get over it eventually… Right?” a boy said.
“I’ve got an idea!” one said.
“Let’s give her the sunshine that she missed.”
“Great idea! Just travel back in time and let her out of the closet” William said scornfully.
“Shut up William. If your just going to be mean then you can go away.” one girl said
“N-. No I want to help” William said more confidently.
“Ok let’s go!” Margot was shivering so intensely that her sentences were not fully understandable.
The next week she hear a chime from her front door. She hadn't been expecting any body at this time of night. When she opened the door, her smile faded. All of the kids from school had shown up at her door. They had a overdramatic smile on all of her face. “Hello” she tried to sound polite “Don’t be so nice… we don't deserve it. “Wh-” “We wanted to say that we are so sorry for what we did.” they