"I don't want to talk about it"

When I was about 12, I got hit by a car coming back from the mosque. I ran across the road without looking. I remember screaming from the shock, but I didn't cry. The next day I had people coming to me as I was hobbling around in school and asking me how I was. I even had my food tech teacher ask me "What happened to you?", I told her I got hit...