Narrative Essay On Chris Brown

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Once upon a time there was a really short, skinny kid. His name was Chris Brown. Chris weighed ninety-five pounds soaking wet. Chris wasn’t very fast, but he decided to go out for track in the spring. Chris usually only ran cross country and played basketball, but Chris decided he wanted to do track. He signed up for the track team, and he became a distance runner. Chris was pretty good at distance running, and he soon began to break school records. He set a conference record in the mile, and multiple school records in the 800 and 4x800 with his teammates, Will, Mike, and Shawn. Chris ran all the time to keep in shape because he was paranoid. Chris got really good in high school and set a ton of state records. He destroyed the state mile …show more content…
When he got there, he didn’t know what to do. It was such a huge city. Chris wandered around and ended up on the wrong side of the city. He was kidnapped by members of a Japanese gang. They tried to stab him once they found out who he was, but he managed to escape back to his hotel. Now he was scared. While getting accustomed to the altitude in Tokyo, Chris passed out again on the track. Now the doctors were getting concerned. They hooked him up to the IVs again and tried to find out whether or not he was dehydrated. It turned out that he was perfectly fine and already had a lot of fluids in his body. The doctors were scared for Chris. They kept looking for a reason as to why he was acting so strangely, but couldn’t find any. This worried them. Chris was ready to compete, and it was almost time. He stepped onto the track and started running. He ran so fast that he set a record, but after he passed the finish line, he suddenly fell to the ground after a sharp cracking sound. Chris had won a gold medal. He was a world champ. Everyone tried to get him to stand up to get his medal, but he didn’t. He had a huge bullet hole in his forehead. A man from the stands shot him because he didn´t want him to win. Doctors ran onto the track and realized it was too late. Chris was dead on the track. Everybody mourned for

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