I don't know how long I was sleeping, but when I woke up, there was a full moon outside the car window.
It was a purple night, and we were driving on a highway full of cars.
And then I heard Mom and Dad talking about me. “We can't keep protecting him,” Mom whispered to Dad, who was driving.
“We can't just pretend he's going to wake up tomorrow and this isn't going to be his reality, because it is, Nate,
and we have to help him learn to deal with it. We can't just keep avoiding situations that...”
“So sending him off to middle school like a lamb to the slaughter..,” Dad answered angrily,
but he didn't even finish his sentence because he saw me in the mirror looking up.
“What's a lamb to the slaughter?” I asked sleepily. “Go back to sleep, Auggie,” Dad said softly.
“Everyone will stare at me at school,” I said, suddenly crying. “Honey,” Mom said.
She turned around in the front seat and put her hand on my hand.
“You know if you don't want to do this, you don't have to. But we spoke to the principal there and told him about you
and he really wants to meet you.” “What did you tell him about me?”
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