It was not my first day at school but the feeling was just the same. It did feel like it was my first day. To make it worse, the feeling of the probability of facing Reed and the other boys made it feel worse. I was far from prepared. But I needed to go back to school. What else can I do? Of course, I could have just grabbed Damian's offer for me to change schools or to look for a home school option. But I had to face life. I had to make sure that my efforts to send myself to college would not go to waste. And yet here I was, hesitant to go to my first class knowing that Reed would be there too. But I womaned up and headed to the classroom door. To my surprise, there was no sight of Reed when I got there. Somehow I managed to focus on school work without having to worry about him o

