Personal Narrative: Suddenly I Become Me

Suddenly I Become Me There are many incidents in my life that have stuck with me till this day. Some have helped me, some have broken me, and some have defined me. Some of those incidents have been sad and upsetting, while others have been some incredible times. Here are a few of my favorite memories while growing up. I just moved in with my mom the summer before third grade. We lived in the town of Cushing, Oklahoma, in a one-bedroom house that was somewhat in someone’s backyard. The house beside ours was an old, creepy, abandoned house. The house across from ours was exactly the same, but a homeless man was living in it. One day, we were having a family cookout and my mom’s boyfriend Tim wanted to go look around in the abandoned house next to ours. There were probably about five of us that walked in through the back door of this abandoned house. We walked slowly throughout the house looking at all the stuff left behind and at the strange writings on the walls. When we reached the front of the house, there was a bedroom on the right side. My mom’s boyfriend opened the door and we all began to walk in. When I noticed there was someone sitting in a chair with a yellow sheet over their entire body with a knife in their hand, I was in such shock I just stood there for a …show more content…
Surprisingly, he didn’t come after me. He said he and my step-mom just looked at each other in shock and just busted out laughing. About ten minutes later he calmly walks into my room and puts a plate with a slice of bread on it and a wine glass of water on my desk. He then informed me I was grounded. I didn’t respond and he walked out the door and locked me in. I sat in my room for hours that day and did absolutely nothing. My dad came in and checked on me and asked if I needed anything. With a sarcastic voice, I asked for more bread and water, and he went and got me