The moment my life changed was not just my life but anyone's life I decided to become close to. I was nine when this moment happened.

I was sitting in my living room rushing to finish the homework I procrastinated to do until a half and hour before I was supposed to leave the house with my sister for school. It was about 7:30 in the morning, wait no, maybe it was 7:30...Yeah it was 7:00. School started at 8:30. Anyways as I sat there rushing to do my homework, my sister finally had to leave because she was a crossing guard and had to be at school earlier than the rest of the kids. Stilll not finished with my homework she left. I stayed until about 7:45 then I had to go to school, I thought about asking my mom if I could stay home but I thought it was absurd and she would say no. I kissed my mommy and told her the usual, "I love you so much mommy have a good sleep." I still remember what she said to me because it stuck, even to this day. "I loved you first my baby, be safe and have fun at school!" She said as I crossed the yard. What would soon happen next no one saw coming. A nightmare come true.

Walking through my backyard I'm chastising myself for not having the courage to ask my mom if I could stay home, and plus I just knew my teacher was going to be angry with me. Almost to school now, I look both ways before I cross the cross walk; the last thing I remember was I was laying on the curb, cold, confused, mind rushing. Now I see this man coming towards me, I don't know him but he helps me up and tells me he's going to take me to the hospital. He helps me into his car and as I sit there I'm trying to buckle this seat belt but can't because my hands are so shaky. He has to help me, I was so embarrassed that I couldn't buckle my own seat belt that I apologized to him. He was a nice man, he gave me the shirt he was where to stop the bleeding on my face. I sat there trying to piece together what happened, what was wrong with my teeth? why am I bleeding? what happened? " Can I call my mom? I don't want her to be worried. She works really late, so I want to catch her before she falls asleep. See I live right down the street!" I asked him. He told me he didn't have his phone on him. He told me I was in a accident and he was taking me to the hospital. He kept saying sorry to me, but why? he didn't do anything to me, did he? I told it was okay and smiled at him. We drove for a while but at last we finally stopped, but it wasn't the hospital.

He told me he couldn't fins the hospital and sent me to check if one of the stores we were stopped at were open. I gave him his shirt back and went and checked. He watched me from his car to make sure I made it in somewhere, I tried the first one, Locked. I continued and walked over to the seconded one, open, he was gone and I headed into the store. I walked in and called for help a couple of times until this older women came out from the back and called the police. When the police arrived I was questioned for a little bit by this younger officer. He asked me th eusual questions like, " whats your name? how old are you? how do you feel? what happened? and what's your moms phone number? " This I knew by heart. By then he was done and I was sent to the ambulance. I'm going to have to skip this part because it was just a long weird trip for me. As I got to the hospital mt mom and dad were there, crying. I told them it was okay and I was okay. That there was nothing to worry about.

After i was done being checked and could finally go see my family and lie down. I was told I could sleep or eat for a while until they knew for sure was okay. My favorite part was my mom because she was there the whole time and never left my side. She didn't eat because I couldn't and I don't know if she knows this but that meant the world to me. I spent the night in the hospital with my mom and the next morning I was told I was okay and I could eat and go home. I couldnt eat of course, but I was glad that I could finally go home. I didn't have any broken bones or anything like that but I did have some really bad road rash on my right side of my face, which to this day I still carry those scars. All in all, it changed me as a person. I saw everything more differently than everyone else, I became really close to my mom, but as I grew older and older I started to push a lot of people away because I was afraid of hurting them. Not a lot of people know about the accident I was in now a days but that's the way I like it because them I'm just the ordinary girl who keeps to herself and gets her work done. I love the person I am today and I wouldn't change for anyone or anything in this world.

I know this was long story but trust me its worth know so you know that these things do happen and can happen to you or someone you love. I keep to myself because I'm afraid i'm going to hurt someone with my own pain because they can't do anything. All I have to say is, never be angry over something small, just listen and work it out, don't be angry just smile and try and understand and think of the good things that are happening, because who knows what's going to happen next.