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In the nurse's office.

I finally made it to the nurse's office after getting lost a couple times. I'm lucky someone got injured playing soccer (what? someon's bad luck can't be good for me?), so I followed the person all the way there.

I asked the nurse if I could take a note to go home a bit early and come back in time. "I live about 12 minutes away from school by bike, and if I walk it'll be around fifteen. I assume, I'll get back to school within 30 minutes."

After the nurse clarified my situation, she gave me a note, and I was on my way home.

To be honest, it feels kind of strange. It feels strange going home early. I've never had good experiences going home or waiting because for a while after the incident, I didn't have a home. And even worse, I was truly alone.

Now that I'm eighteen, I can live alone with the provision of the government. I'm not a foster anymore, and it feels good to be independent. However, it's also really lonely, as all my friends have either been adopted or separated from me. I feel really bad that I can't contact any one of them.

As I walk down the path away from the school, I begin to muse of what my day would have been if I didn't lose my contact lens. Would I still be in P.E class, would I still not know what happened in the art studio, would I be invisible as usual?

I don't know. One thing I'm proud of myself for being is positive.

I don't have lots of friends, or know a lot of people, but I only think about today, and how tomorrow can be better.

I'm not that smart in anything else (except for math and science), and I'm really clumsy. Sometimes, I wonder how different I would be if I was good at actually talking to people, or making real friends, or not getting separated from my mother.

But I don't like to think about these things, because this is my life now, and I can make it whatever I wish.

I reach the house in 15 minutes and open the door with the key under the flowerpot.

I'm really careful about living alone, as I don't have neighbors. I lock the door back and flop myself on the sofa. Another thing I like. Nice naps…..