Child abuse

Previously

…“Hello,” she began, her eyes never leaving the house next door. “I… I need to report a situation. I’m concerned about a child.” As she spoke, a shadow moved behind Lily’s living room curtains. A moment later, the curtains were pulled back, revealing Lily’s face, pale and drawn. Her eyes, wide and dark, seemed to be staring directly at Sarah’s house, as if she had sensed the shift, the change in the air. She looked not with fear, but with a flicker of something akin to hope, a tentative yearning that Sarah’s hesitant knock on the door of intervention might, just might, open a window for her.