Personal Narrative: I Had To Succeed In High School

My best friends, Anne Marie and Kaiya, and I have been friends since we were in the third grade. We had our ups and downs, but we never let anyone or anything rip us apart. We were inseparable like peanut butter and jelly, not the same without each other. But since that is all too good to be true, in the 8th grade we realized that we were going to different high schools. They were off to Barbe and me to Sulphur. I begged at least four times a week for my momma to let me go to Barbe as if enough tears in the world would get her to change her mind. “We moved to Sulphur for a reason; you are going to Sulphur High,” she would always tell me, but I never lost hope. I was sure that somehow someway all the stars would align and she would realize that staying with my friends was really the best and only option for me to be able to succeed in high school. …show more content…
Maybe just maybe this could be my saving grace; we would go to LaGrange together and everything would be right with the world. We decided that we would talk to our parents and convince them beg them, do whatever it took to convince them to send us to LaGrange, however we didn’t anticipate our parents immediately shooting us down. It was official we had no other options Anne Marie, Kaiya, and I would be splitting and there was absolutely nothing that we could do about it. I felt as though my social life was just diagnosed with stage four cancer and it was all going to be over soon. I was absolutely positively terrified, I was shy and awkward and the worst at making friends because I’ve always been bad with words. My fear wrapped me up in this nice little hug and I let this fear control