Throughout the holiday, whenever I’d hear about an automobile crash involving fatalities, or a fire, or some other traumatic event in the area I’d get this nagging premonition that I was going to hear from Wendy about the need for counselors to be somewhere due to a deceased student. 

The call came last night; a girl at a sister high school died a week ago from injuries suffered in a crash.  Although reluctant to have the first day back be draining, I thought about my fellow counselors and said I’d be there.  This is their third student death this year.