What can i do about this!!?

First I鈥檒l tell you what happened. Today this boy took my chair. He kept yelling at me and asking me what i was going to do. I was having a bad day so i slapped him. I know it was dumb but i did. The whole class period he was telling everyone that he wanted to beat me up and was saying all the ways he was going to do it. It scared me so I was crying during class nobody stood up for me The bell rang and right when i was almost was out of the door out of nowhere he slapped me face backhand. it hurt and my neck and face were red. I started crying and a girl gave me a hug and walked me to the bath room. I went to the office and told them what happened because i was worried about my safety. I told them what happened and they called witnesses in and now everyone hates me. they say stuff like ***** you shouldn鈥檛 dish what you go served. I know i started it but i just have temper. Everyone is talking **** about and I鈥檓 scared to go back to school what can I do? Im freaking out I know I could have handled it better what can I do now?

the right thing to do would be go to class and apologize for the way you acted and say what you just said now, that you could have handled it better. let the guy know that you don't have hard feelings (even if you do) and even if he's still mad, at least you said you were sorry. hopefully this will peace it up for you. its the only thing you can do.