Losing My Life-Personal Narrative

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The last thing I imagined happening on a Friday night was losing my life. On February 13th, the word friendship lost value to me as I witnessed the horror of reality. Accompanied with me was my younger brother, Jesse. Together we planned on having a fun Friday night by going to the mall with my friends. As a last minute addition we decided to carpool. Carpooling is what we did being young we had no license or cars. Except two people: Kevin and Medina. Between the two the decision was simple: Kevin. The boy already had his provisional and a car; on the other hand medina had his father’s car and an arrest record full of speeding tickets and vandalism. Medina wasn’t right in the head but in a world filled with spite, I choose to ignore the bad …show more content…
On the other line Medina says he’s outside with Kevin in the car. “What?” I said, “That wasn’t part of the plan.” Medina says “The plan changed come outside.” Changes don’t upset me it was just unexpected. To my surprise, the ride to the mall was fine, we even made it before 7. It was a cold February evening, me and Jesse both wore our matching Maryland sweaters. His was black mine was red. Being brothers we actually looked nothing alike. I was short with curly hair and dark tan while he was almost six foot, with straight hair and a light complexion. Off looks you couldn’t tell Kevin and Medina apart. Other then Kevin’s raspy voice, the two look identical. They both had a buzz cut with round figure and a materialistic things. Nothing special happened at the mall. There we met up with a few of my friends and then four became six. The conversations we had were always the same of how were going to make it big one day. We all experience a fall in our lives. Medina’s parents recently got divorced, Kevin had difficulties with his parents, Jesse and I struggled to escape our parent’s authoritive hands. Us, we finished falling and wanted to start flying. Call us naïve but at that moment, with my friends, the world became ours. But the world can be given and easily

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