After a long journey to Tallahassee, over a hundred students and adults returned home to South Florida in the early morning hours of Thursday.
Buses carrying the group returned to Coral Springs, just miles from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where 17 students and staff were shot and killed last Wednesday by a former student who legally purchased an assault weapon.
Holding signs and wearing black "Parkland Strong" T-shirts, 40 of the teenagers filed warily into a committee room at Florida's state Capitol on Wednesday. They hadn't been invited.
Timid yet determined, they stood their ground.
It was perhaps the first act of civil disobedience ever by the high school students whose lives were turned around just one week before by a shooting that left 17 of their friends and teachers dead.
After several meetings with individual lawmakers, the group headed for a committee meeting.
Before making the trek back to South Florida, they would lie down and pose as corpses in a silent protest outside Gov. Rick Scott's Capitol office. And staffers wouldn't disturb them.