SAFE BY DESIGN · EPISODE 11

Where Are You Right Now?

She hadn't posted anything all day. Her phone had been telling people anyway.

Safe by Design, episode 11: Where Are You Right Now?. The family tablet inside an open ring; "The pin on the map" stops at a yellow pause sign: Location? Only on purpose.

Saturday afternoon on the balcony. Tara had come over to help Arjun paint a cardboard rocket, which had become mostly Tara painting and Arjun running the countdown.

Her phone, face up beside the paint pots, lit up with a message from Mira, a classmate: a cheerful “ooh, you're at your cousin's?” and a smiley.

Tara stared at it. She hadn't posted anything all day. She hadn't told anyone where she was going.

“How does Mira know I'm here?”

Tara, 13

It wasn't quite worry. It was the feeling of finding a door open that you were sure you'd closed.

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