Welcome to The Ink Well, @bornben. Your story is very sad and poignant. You took an interesting approach, in writing the story from the perspective of the bully!

I was curious about the end. I wasn't quite sure what happened to the boy. I thought perhaps he died in the car accident. But I wasn't clear whether he lost his parents before coming to the school. That seems the more likely story, and it would be even more terrible that the narrator was bullying a child who was grieving. But if that was the case, then I wasn't sure what the principal meant when we said "we had lost a student." I would love to better understand what happened. Thank you!