I asked around some, and found out Charlie’s father was dead and he didn’t live with his mother. He deserves my patience, I thought. So I practiced every bit of patience I could muster. To my cheery “Good morning” , he was silent. When I wished him a happy Halloween, he sneered. Many, many times I asked God how I could reach Charlie. “I’m at my wit’s end. ” I’d say. Still I was sure that this child needed to feel some warmth from me. So, when he’d pass by, I’d ruffle his hair or pat him on the arm.
Toward the end of that year, the kids on my bus gave me a small trophy inscribed “To the Best Bus Driver Ever” . I propped it up on the dashboard. On top I hung a small tin heart that a little girl had given me. In red paint she had written,
“I love Polly and Polly loves me. ”
On the next-to-last day of school I was delayed a few minutes talking to the principal. When I got on the bus I realized that the tin heart was gone. “Does anyone know what happened to the little heart that was up here?” I asked. For once with 39 children, there was silence.
One boy piped up,
“Charlie was the first one on the bus. I bet he took it. ” Other children joined the chorus,
“Yeah! Charlie did it! Search him! ” I asked Charlie,
“Have you seen the heart?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, ” he protested. Standing up, he took a few pennies and a small ball out of his pockets. “See, I don’t have it. ”
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