“This is Principal Warren. I’m calling about Noah.”
My stomach tightened automatically.
My eight-year-old son, Noah Cole, was not a troublemaker. He talked too much in class, occasionally forgot that indoor voices existed, and once organized an unauthorized paper-airplane contest during math, but serious calls from the principal were rare.
“Is he hurt?”
“No. He’s fine.”
I exhaled.
“Then what happened?”