“Welcome back students, how was everyone’s summer?” Mrs. Wilson asked us. Sitting in the back row was me Matthew Shepard, walking in late was Jennifer S there was only one chair left which was next to me I didn’t really consider my self as being the popular rich boy but everyone did. As Jennifer walked toward the back of the room with a big smile on her face, a girl tripped her and all her books drop to the floor, everyone started to laugh.

Jennifer wasn’t much of a people person she was always by her self in the library, or in meetings for clubs, she was in to all that clubs and stuffs and after school she either was at St. Franks Hospital for kids or at gas station that her dad had own it was down town. One day Jennifer walked past me and my friends ,John, my best friend, said to her “hey princess salvation army didn’t you take your freshmen picture with that shirt” and started to laugh, I didn’t think that was funny at all but I jus went along with everyone started

After the whole conversation of the Prom she asked me if she could have a ride home so I told her sure since her house is right up the road from me, as I dropped her off she said to me “I’m happy your ready for a change Matthew” not knowing what she meant by that I told her “ thanks! Bye” wanting her to leave my car. When I went home my mother asked me “Where were you it’s almost 7 o’clock” and I told her “I had to drop Jennifer off” and she said “that was nice of you to do something like that”. I ran up stairs to my room to think because I just had a thought that came to my mind when my mom mentioned to me that “it was nice of me to do that”, I was thinking about what Jennifer told me in the car. It was the night of the Carnival when I pulled up Jennifer’s drive way, I went up the stairs that lead to her door,with my sweaty hands because I was so nervous I pushed the doorbell, the dad came to the door, “I’m here to pick up Jennifer” he called for her and he invited me in, I sat down on the rocking chair next to the door, as I saw Jennifer walk down those steps, it was like an angel coming from the sky, Jennifer looked so pretty with her hair down and in a beautiful red dress, when she approached me I was speechless, her father told me to have her home before 11, as I walked out the door I told her father bye then we left, by the time I got to the other side to open her door she had already opened it. As I was reversed out of her drive way I told her “You look very beautiful” with my voice crackling, as if I was going through puberty at that very moment “You look good to Matthew” she replied with the sweetest voice I ever heard.

When we got there my friends were standing right by the entrance, when John my best friend said “ Hey look who brought Cinderella along” I ignored him and walked in, Jennifer knew he was talking about her but it didn’t seem to phase her , I asked her “ you don’t care what other people think of you right” and she had a response I would never forget “ Life is to short to care about what others think of you” and I just wanted to kiss her right in front everyone but I didn’t because it would look bad, the popular rich boy kissing a drama club president, as we walked through the carnival I asked her “Why did you volunteer at St. Franks” and she told me that she had nothing else to do” and I just watched her looking at other couples, like she had never had a boyfriend , it was getting late and I didn’t want her father to get mad so we left early and on our way home, as we pulled back up her drive way she said “ thank you, for taking me out, I had a wonderful time” and I told her “ Your welcome, it was my pleasure” . The next day at school I went up to my friends and john told me “Matthew! What’s happening to you? Your changing ” and I told him “ I don’t care what you think life’s to short to care what others think of you” and from that moment I knew Jennifer changed my ways of life , at lunch I sat by Jennifer telling her how I only have 2 more days left of community service and she asked me “ what do you have community service for?” and I answered her, after school Jennifer asked me if she could have a ride to the hospital and so I gave her a lift to the hospital, as we walked up the stairs she asked me “Why are you with me Matthew?” as if she knew something was up with me. But really nothing was, I told her “because for the first time in life Jennifer I feel good about myself. We walked straight to room 202 that was a kid that I was watching her name was Jade she broke her back in a gymnastic tournament and was paralyzed, Jennifer told me she was going to room 201 so I told her” ok, ill be there in a little while” , when I walked in room 201 I didn’t make that much noise to see what Jennifer was doing, as I opened the door I heard her crying along side the bed of the kid she took care of, and I

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