Miami , Florida ( CNN ) -- He wanted to sit outside for a while and enjoy the night air , then took a shower and curled up on the couch to watch a cartoon movie . A boring night by many teenagers ' standards . But 15-year-old Michael Brewer , who suffered burns over 65 percent of his body in October -- allegedly at the hands of a group of youths he knew -- reveled in it , his mother told reporters Wednesday . Being out of a hospital burn unit , she said , was `` the only thing he wanted for Christmas . '' `` He 's really looking forward to spending Christmas with his family , '' Valerie Brewer said of her son , who was released from the University of Miami 's Jackson Memorial Hospital Burn Center on Tuesday . `` We hope everybody has as wonderful a Christmas as we 're going to have . '' Three teens -- Denver Jarvis and Matthew Bent , both 15 , and Jesus Mendez , 16 -- are accused of being in a group that poured alcohol over Brewer and set him ablaze October 12 in what police said was a dispute over $ 40 , a video game and a bicycle . All three teens are charged as adults with one count of attempted murder . Each has pleaded not guilty . If convicted , each could face a sentence of up to 30 years in prison . The family did not return to their Deerfield Beach , Florida , home , and does not plan to , Valerie Brewer said . Instead , they went to `` a safe place '' -- both so they can have privacy and so Michael Brewer can feel secure . `` He does n't feel safe going back to the neighborhood , '' she said . `` The families of the boys live within five blocks of us . He does fear for his life going back there . ... He does n't want to go back and I do n't blame him . We 're looking forward to moving on and having some peace . '' She told CNN in an interview later Wednesday the family is looking for another home . Brewer , who suffered second- and third-degree burns over about two-thirds of his body , has `` a long road ahead of him , '' Dr. Louis Pizano , associate director of the burn center , said Wednesday . He faces hours of physical therapy five days a week , Pizano said -- a painful process both because of the burns and because of muscle atrophy resulting from the recovery process . Therapists are working to help him walk more easily and regain a range of motion in his arms and legs , Pizano said . Doctors are hopeful Brewer will not require any more skin grafts , he said . Valerie Brewer told CNN in a later interview Wednesday that her son managed to shower `` all by himself '' Tuesday night . Showers can be excruciating for him , she said , as it hurts when the soap and water hit his open wounds . Plus , she said , he must take a piece of gauze and wipe his wounds to get any dead skin off . `` He 's very courageous for doing it by himself . '' Besides his painful treatment and recovery , Brewer suffered an emotional toll , his mother said . `` He really does n't talk about it with me or with his father , '' Valerie Brewer said . `` He talks to the therapists about it because he does n't want to upset us . '' He takes medication to help with night terrors , she told CNN , but `` he wakes up every night with nightmares . '' She said she sleeps about three or four hours a night , depending on how many times her son wakes up in pain or with a nightmare . Detectives say eyewitnesses told them that Mendez used a lighter to set fire to Brewer after Jarvis poured alcohol over him . Bent allegedly encouraged the attack , police said . Brewer jumped into a pool at his apartment complex to put out the flames . Authorities have said Mendez admitted setting Brewer on fire . According to an arrest transcript , the boy said he made a `` bad decision . '' Pizano said Wednesday he would have predicted a six-moth hospital stay for Brewer . While he said it is `` miraculous '' that Brewer was released in two months , `` the reason why he 's home so early is because of him . '' He said Brewer did everything he needed to do , a formidable task even for an injured adult . `` He followed everything to the T , and he got home early . '' Brewer will be home-schooled for the rest of this year and possibly next to allow his recovery to progress , Valerie Brewer said . `` He never gave up on anything , '' she said . `` He got a little depressed once in a while -- anybody would , going through this kind of situation -- but his will to live is just unbelievable , and to move on and live a happy , normal life . '' She told CNN , `` He 's such inspiration to me . Seeing him go through this -- I know the rest of his life , he 's going to have challenges , but nothing is going to ever amount to what he has gone through now , and what he 's going to go through for the next several months . ''
Michael Brewer , 15 , was severely burned in hospital , allegedly by someone he knew . Getting out of hospital was ` ` the only thing he wanted for himself , '' his mom says . Brewer family to spend holiday at ` ` a safe place , '' not their old home . They credit Brewer 's ` ` miraculous '' due to his determination , spirit .