As Gemma sat in her van waiting to pick up her kids from school, her attention focused on the radio as it spoke of the local news and all the drama that unfolded in the lives of those around her. Having been in this area the majority of her life, she either knew or knew of the people spoken of in the nearby news, learning many she had gone to school with to have taken a darker path in life for having used drugs and now been busted by police. For a moment, she wondered if her popping pain medication had been on the same spectrum but before she could dwell on it, she was alerted to the sound of something hitting her car. Her eyes darted to the sense of the origin before she saw Paulette with her sadistic and even sarcastic smile. She gave the illusion of being this perfect stepford wife, whe
