What About Me

“Hey, are you ready?” said my mother. She had been hounding me like a drill sergeant all morning. We usually headed to Kennebunkport, Maine for a weekend every summer, but this year was different. I was invited to go on vacation to the lake with friends, and my mother said yes. I was grateful for the opportunity. “Are you sure you’ll be ok?” asked Mom, as she looked up the stairway. “Yes, Mom”, I replied, “I’ll be fine…. I’ll be down in a minute.” As I packed the last of my clothes, my…

There is blood all over me, what the hell happened to me? More and more people start to gather in the crowd. I can slightly make out my mom’s voice; she’s in a panic with blood all over her. The last thing I remember is fighting with my dad. As I think back, he was with a woman. This woman was not my mom but he came gave her flowers and kissed her. As my mind jumped to he was having an affair, she looked to be pregnant. My dad’s head turned for a second and caught me staring, his face turned…

day and I felt ready to tackle any task that would be given to me today. After organising myself, I was then quite ready and went outside my door patiently awaiting my co-worker for a ride. For some reason that day I was jolly: I thought to myself that I probably was a bit too jolly and I cautioned myself on that notion. It is often said “After joy is sorrow” and I needed to be on the lookout for anything that might become sorrowful to me. Got into work and set to my tasks and one of the tasks…

definitions along with these, but none of these definitions make me feel anything. After reading the word death, I don’t feel anywhere close to the amount of disbelief, sadness, devastation, and loss that comes with physically mourning a loss. Sometimes you hear about deaths on the news, in books, from friends, on the radio, but you never really get emotional, or heartbroken about it because you don’t know them personally. But this became real to me all too quick. I couldn’t believe it. My head…

worst day of my life. You make such a big mistake, and think my life is over. That was me 9 years ago. I had the day off of work. It was the 4th of July. My friend and I were driving down the road, heading back to his house to bring him home. We were driving on a county road, listening to music, with the cruise control on. I reached back to grab my cd case (At the time I told my parents I swerved to miss a rabbit). What a mistake that was. When I turned around again, my friend said watch out…

Fractured “What happened? Where am I? Who am I?” I wake up in a hospital bed. The very first thing I did was… fall down from the bed. “I’m fine. Huh, there isn’t a soul here. Ahh, good thing there’s nobody here to know that but me.” I got up and tried to find something about me in the room. I looked for some time and found something interesting. “Well, well, looks like I found an ID card and a mirror. “I look really good.” Then, I looked in the mirror. “Hmm, it looks like I’m a teen. Huh, Jake…

feeling uncomfortable the whole drive. Well, this is exactly what happened to my family on our 2016 road trip to California. Not to mention we had everything planned. Every place, cost, time, and snack. What could have possibly gone wrong? For as far back as I can remember, every other summer my family has taken a long journey to Southern California to visit relatives. Had we ever flown? Yes, but only when there were 2 children to worry about. Now that there are 8 of us, things would have…

18 months to 3 years in prison. At fifteen years old, I knew going inside someone’s house was wrong, but I had no idea it was a felony. As a teenager, imagine the perfect opportunity to have a house party. During the summer of 2003, my life was all about going out, boys, drinking and fun. That same summer, before I started my sophomore year in High School at Desert Vista, my friend Jenn and I came upon this perfect opportunity to have our very own house party. We learned that one of our new…

Liars, by E. Lockhart seeing that her memory and mind has altered . First, Cadence blatantly explained that her father “ran off” with “some” woman he loved more than Cadence, and her mother not divulging what really happened. Out of nowhere Cadence expresses, “Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed. Blood gushed rhythmically from my open wound, then…

2017, a very shocking and scary thing happened. One of my best friends got hit by a train around 3:10 while he was in his car. So right after school. His name is Austin Cole Wiseman. At 7:16PM one of my friends texted me and said “Did you hear about Austin Wiseman?” and I said, “ No! What happened?”. She said he was driving with a 15 year old girl and their car was hit by a train and they are both in critical condition.” I thought she had been joking at first, even though she usually wasn’t the…