" Hey mom. Hi sweetie how was it? It was good Rose is helping me a lot." My mom stood there smiling and as she thanked Rose and we went to the car. " autumn honey I have to tell you something. What mom." I said in a soft voice. She took a deep breath and said, " Your going back to school tomorrow. Wait what! Autumn it's been a month since your accident I think you're ready to go back to school, everyone has been so worried about you! Yeah who mom all my friends are dead. No one is worried for me they just can't wait for me to come back to school so they can make fun of me!" My mom started the car and drove away. We didn't say anything for the rest of the ride and when I got home I went to my room and slammed the door. I knew that she was trying but I didn't want to go through the pain of everyone watching me and feeling sorry for me or making fun of me! I don't like to feel helpless. The next day my mom woke me up for school and I got ready even though I really wasn't ready for this. I guess that she was thinking something like I was because she said, " I am sorry if I have to push you for this but if someone doesn't you'll never face your fear. No one ever is ready. You just got to go through with it." That made me feel a little better so I hugged her and said that I loved her. My mom had always been there for me. My dad though. He left us. It was only me and my mom. Recently my mom had started dating. I hope she finds the right man sometime soon and she can be happy. I got to school and my mom let me out giving me the look that said everything is going to be ok. I walked in the school everyone staring like I thought they would be. Then one kid in my class came over and said," Where have you been! Everyone thought you were dead like your friends!" It felt like he just stabbed me I didn't want to think about how the friends I made here in this very place were dead. I snapped. "How dare you talk about my friend like that! Yes they are dead and your not the one who watched them die! Do you know that feeling when you are just so helpless! You don't know so why don't you just leave me alone!" Everyone was watching by now when I stormed of into the bathroom. I was crying so much I started to get dehydrated. I was in there for three periods until the teacher came in. "Autumn are you in here? Yes. Are you ok did Jake upset you? Yes. Can you come out?" I walked out slowly tears still dripping. " I know it's hard I lost someone before too but you have to keep trying to be positive. Can you come in back to class?" I shook my head and we walked out of the room together and went into her room. She made an Announcement to the class. " class from now on we will not speak to autumn about her incident and if you do you will get detention she is going through something and you will respect that." I felt better all day nothing else happened that day And when I got home I felt something inside me. It felt like success Like I had won. I made it through the day I faced my fear!