Personal Narrative Essay On The Football Field

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It started with a boy 15 years old named Jamarcus. He is a medium sized boy with short black hair. He is a very athletic boy, and his favorite game in the whole world was football. He had just moved to a new school in Texas. He was really excited because he knew they had a really good football program. His biggest worry about going to a new school was making friends. He wasn’t the most sociable person. He had trouble making friends in his last school. When he did start to make a few friends his mom and him had to move again because of her job. She said that this time it was going to be permanent, and there was going to be no more moving. They have moved 5 times since he’s been in school. Whenever he started school that day he was so excited for practice after school. In practice surprisingly a lot of the guys were really friendly. They helped him with what they did
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He was afraid to ask his mom because he figured she’d overreact and say no. He didn’t want to say no to them and not go because he wanted to look cool. That night he decided he was going to sneak out and not tell his mom. When he arrived at the party Jimbo met him at the doors. He invited him in, and as they walked in Jamarcus could see the people drinking and doing drugs. He didn’t know what to do all he wanted to do is leave, but didn’t know what to say to Jimbo. Jimbo offered him some of the drugs they were taking. Jamarcus just sat in silence which seem to make him mad. Jamarcus ended up saying no I don’t do drugs. Jimbo pushed Jamarcus and they started fighting. Jimbo was so drugged up he kept missing him when he’d tried to punch him. Jamarcus just pushed him down and ran out the door. He ran as fast as he could, but they got in a car and tried to chase him. Jamarcus ran through people’s yards, and hid in a tree as they drove by. He could smell the alcohol from all the way in the

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