Personal Narrative: Going Into High School

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Going into high school was one of the toughest things to get excited for due to my middle school experience. The bullying was what scared me the most, I thought that everyone would make fun of me because of my past. Something I had not yet got over was being around a lot of people, and the high school’s full of people. During the summer, I would ask my mom,
“Can I do online schooling instead? She always denied the idea. Everyone made freshman year seem like a dreadful year, but from my experience, there’s both ups and downs.
At the beginning of freshman year, I had a lot of friends and was on the dance team which was always something I’d wanted. Everything seemed to be going well for me compared to what I’d been through the year
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I realized how important school actually was and learned to be happy again. Since I was dating Dale and spent most of my time with him or at practice, my friends and I became distant. When I finally looked at the way my friends treated me I realized that it wasn’t okay. The only person who I wanted to talk to was Dale. Dale’s home life wasn’t the greatest so he grew up at a young age too. We both understood things at a deeper level compared to others. We were both very hard-headed and didn’t want to hear what we didn’t like. After eight months of dating, we finally realized that since we were so much alike that things weren’t working out anymore. QuDale and I ended things during the middle of my sophomore year and his junior year. Having someone who helped me become who I am removed from my life has easily been one of the hardest things I’ve had to go through. He came into my life when I was ready to give up, but when he finally left I went right back to how I was before. My grades started dropping, I stopped caring about my sports, going to school was hard, and I felt so alone. Since I had pushed everyone else away beside him I felt like I had no

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