Spirit Week-Personal Narrative

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I was excited when Camila decided that we were going to go to the Nation Ford High School football game. Since it was Spirit Week, and it was supposed to be a packed game, I told her that I would go. We decided that Cece and I were to meet Camila at the game so that we could get good seats in the student section. We got to the game, paid our way in, and made our way over to the bleachers. The fact that the game was against Indian Land along with the warm September weather made us excited for the night to come. We spent the bulk of our night next to each other surrounded by the unwavering smell of body odor. Late into the third quarter, with Camila on one side of me and Cece on the other, the kids a few feet to the right of us start suddenly started chanting “One, Two, Three!”
Without warning, they pushed all of us who were standing on the crammed bleacher to the right, causing Camila to lose her balance from where she was standing, and fall down onto the hard …show more content…
We were just playing around I didn't think anything would happen.” The unnamed boy said, when he got to where we were.
“Really? You didn't think ‘hmm maybe someone could get hurt by pushing everyone on the bleachers’?” I snapped at him and his lack of words showed that he didn't know how to respond to me.
After additional choice words from Cece and me, he left, and we decided that we should leave the student section and go to the concessions. Over fruit smoothies, Camila began to recover and we all laughed it off and made our way back to the bleachers to watch the rest of the game.
It was moments like this that made me realize how much I cherish my friendships, and how the friendships I make in highschool will always be with me when I grow up. Football games, birthday parties, holidays, movie nights; they will all stay with me as I graduate highschool, and college, and move on to start my own family. One day my children will be making these memories with their own Camila’s, and
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