ORLANDO, Fla. — Some students have to work harder than most to do well in school and help their family.

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• Student is helping support her family, has no transportation
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A school resource officer found this out from a simple conversation with a student, which sparked an act of kindness that will help this student for years to come.

School Resource Officer Sgt. David Rinehart and Narelys Negron, a student at Acceleration East High School, formed an unlikely friendship.

“I make sure to say hi to him every morning. Sometimes I’ll sit down and talk about the army. I’ll talk to him forever,” Negron said.

Their first conversation though was one Rinehart didn’t expect.

“She asked if she could bring pepper spray to school, and I was like, ‘Why do you need to bring pepper spray to school? You can’t do that,’” Rinehart recalled.

Rinehart eventually found out from Negron that she was worried about her safety because she got off late from her after-school job.

“Yeah, I worked at nights, night shifts, mostly the closing shifts… leaving work at 10, walking home all that way,” Negron said.

Rinehart asked why her family didn’t just get her a bike. Just like her question, he wasn’t expecting her response.

“She said, ‘You know I’ve been saving up my money for a bike, but sometimes we need it, the money, for other things,’” Rinehart said recalled.

That’s when Sgt. Rinehart learned just how hard Negron worked for her family, like when she walks to get groceries.

“… it’d be so hot, and such a long way, and I wouldn’t give up because I would make it there…” Negron described.

Sgt. Rinehart heard enough to act.

With the help of some of his fellow school resource officers, Rinehart was able to surprise Narelys with her own bike.

“It was like the sweetest thing ever. I was crying,” Negron said.

A simple act of kindness for Rinehart and his fellow officers was a game changer for Negron and her family.

“I mean, it means everything. Like, nobody has ever done anything like this for me, like ever,”

It means she can now get groceries safely and easily for her family. Also, her sister can use the bike to get around as well. But Negron wants to do more.

“Hopefully if I can save up enough, before I graduate, I can get a car and help my mom more,” Negron said.

Some would say giving a bike to a kid in need makes Rinehart a hero, but he says he was just helping out the real hero of this story.

“She’s the true hero. She’s helping her family and now she wants to serve her country. It doesn’t get any better than that,” Rinehart said.

So these two will keep talking, because Rinehart doesn’t want to miss what’s next for his hero.

Since that time, Rinehart has used his public safety connections to buy another bike for a student in need at Acceleration East High School.