It was a usual morning in early Autumn, the trees were losing their leaves and turning brown. Everything was going according to plan for everyone going back to school, except for one individual who didn't want to return.
Harry lived a pretty normal life, mother and father were still together and living in the same household. Harry got up for school feeling very strange and all that ran through Harry's mind was "what's wrong with me? Why am I feeling this way?" But Harry still got up as planned as this was his first day in high school and he didn't ask his parents anything about how he was feeling.
Moving downstairs to get his breakfast and then off to school he went. Harry got on the school bus and saw a few of his friends Sam and Darrell.
"Hey guys" Harry says to the other two.
The other two responds "hey man" said Sam "awrite dude" said Darrell.
The 3 misfits end up at school and they all split up as they need to go to there classes.
Throughout the day Harry kept feeling stranger and stranger, finally approaching his teacher
"Could I get a minute outside the class?"
Mr Nortan just simply says to him "yeah that's not a problem"
Harry goes outside of the classroom and starts to breakdown and cry. Some of the teachers see harry crying and they invite him into a quiet room. Miss Paton takes Harry in
"What's wrong?", she asks him
Harry doesn't respond
"If you don't talk then I can't help you Harry"
Harry looks up "I don't know what's wrong because there's nothing to feel wrong about"
Miss Paton goes outside the classroom to talk with Mr Nortan. she comes back into the classroom and says to harry
"Come on we are going to go to the head teacher"
Harry just nods and says "okay".
Mr Johnson is the head of the whole school, he cares about helping every pupil that has comes to him.
Miss Paton says to harry "stay here while I have a word with Mr Johnson.
Harry takes a seat next to Mr Johnson's office and soon gets called into the office to join his teachers, Mr Johnson, clearly concerned, looks up at harry and asks
"What seems to be the matter with you?" Harry just shrugs his shoulders.
Harry's face tells Mr Johnson everything
"I’ve seen this before Harry and I want to help you get better"
Harry looks up and asks "but what if I don't know what's wrong?"
Mr Johnson hands Harry a card with a phone number on it. "That's okay just contact these people if you ever feel like this again"
Harry carries the card in his pocket as he continues his day at school, once he arrives home he starts to break down again, remembering the advice from Mr Johnson earlier in the day, Harry removes the card form his pocket and with some hope, he dials the phone number, unsure of who will answer.
Harry speaks out as soon as the call is connected
"Hello I got this number from my head teacher and I think something is wrong but I don't know what it is"
The voice on the other end pauses and second, before calmly responding
"I’m really glad you called, our speak out group is running tomorrow at 4pm in the library, by all means come and join in”
Harry wakes up on the next morning and goes to school like normal, he sees Mr Johnson in the corridor and is called over
“How are you feeling today Harry”, he asks
Harry explains to Mr Johnson that he called the number is going to go down to the group to speak out about how he is feeling.
Mr Johnson looks pleased and happy that harry has taken the first steps and made contact.
As school is finishing for the day Harry makes his way to the library and suddenly realises his friends Sam and Darrell are there, they greet him into the group
Harry has been going to the same group ever since and he has good days and not so good days but he still attends.
Author: Phoenix Murray
