** Principal Notices Her Daughter Keeps Disappearing after School, Finds Baby Diapers in Her Backpack

A school principal is worried when her daughter starts disappearing after school, especially after she finds diapers in her school bag and she decided to follow her.

Lucy Trent spent a lot of time immersed in trouble. It was part of her job. She was a high school principal. But facing the problems that assailed families with teens day in and day out made her more than a little paranoid.

It turned Lucy into a hypervigilant, helicopter mom to her own fifteen-year-old daughter, Sophia. So for Lucy, every mood was a marker that might indicate substance abuse or gang involvement. Thank goodness, teen pregnancy was off her worry list! Or was it...

Lucy kept a sharp eye on her daughter, and started noticing that she came home late every day after school, telling her mom she was at a friend's house, and during the weekends she just vanished.

Where was she going? What was she doing? Lucy became even more worried when her daughter's teachers reported a sudden drop-off in her grades, something she had warned other parents was a danger sign.

Children learn kindness from their parents.

Sad to say, Lucy started searching her daughter's backpack. If she'd been confronted with it she would have been ashamed of violating her privacy, but since no one knew, she did it. One day she found more than she bargained for.

She opened the backpack and found a bulky black plastic bag right on top. Lucy took it out of the backpack with trembling fingers. She carefully opened it but her experience as a principal hadn't prepared her for what she found. DIAPERS!

Diapers? Diapers meant a baby! A baby meant...HER DAUGHTER WAS A MOTHER AT 15! Was that where she went every afternoon and on the weekends? To be with her child and its father?

But where did she go? And how could she confirm her supposition? Lucy decided that the very next day she was going to follow her daughter and discover the whole truth.

And that is exactly what she did. Lucy waited until school let out, then she followed Sophia. She walked quite a ways until she came to an old abandoned house. Lucy watched her daughter walk in, then quietly followed her.

To her surprise, her daughter was sitting on the floor playing with twin babies about two years old. They couldn't possibly be hers! Then she heard a man's voice. "Thank you so much, Sophia. You don't know what this means to me, but I don't want you getting into trouble..."

"Too late for that!" cried Lucy, and stepped into the room. "What is going on here?" The man who was standing there talking to Sophia was Peter Sutton, who until just a few weeks ago had been the school janitor.

"Mom!" cried Sophia. "I'm...I'm just helping Peter! I look after the babies in the afternoons so he can go look for work..."

"What about the weekends?" demanded Lucy.

Peter stepped forward and said: "I have a part-time job at an old age home on the weekends. These babies are my grandchildren. My daughter left them with me three months ago, and she never came back.

"That was why I started coming in so late for work, and why I left early all the time...I couldn't leave them alone."

"But Peter," Lucy cried. "I fired you over being late and leaving early! Why didn't you tell me? I would have understood!"

Peter shrugged his shoulders and there were tears in his eyes. "I was ashamed," he whispered. "I think I must have been a bad father for my daughter to have turned out like that. You're very lucky. Your Sophia is a good, kind girl."

Lucy put her arm around Sophia and gave her a big hug. "Yes she is, and I must learn to trust her more," she said, then added. "As for you, Peter, you're coming back to work. We will all help with the babies.

"Me, Sophia, and I'll get the other teachers to lend a hand too. You're not alone, we will help you in whatever you need." Lucy kept her word to Peter, and she apologized to Sophia for her suspicions and promised to ask her when she had any doubts in the future.

From then on, Lucy, Sophia and the rest of the staff at the school worked together to care for the babies. They organized a rota system so that Peter never had to be away from his grandchildren for too long. The school even started a fundraiser to help support the babies and Peter.

Sophia was praised for her kindness and her selflessness, and Lucy couldn't be prouder of her daughter. She learned to trust Sophia and to let her daughter make her own decisions. And in turn, Sophia learned to communicate better with her mother and to always be open and honest with her.

The school and the local community came together to support Peter and his grandchildren, and everyone was grateful for the opportunity to help. Lucy was reminded of the power of community and the importance of trust, love, and compassion.