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Personal Narrative: A Near Death Experience
People always say that in a near death experience, your life always flashes before your eyes. I waited for that moment to happen, but all I saw was the series of decisions that led me to the situation I was in.
I remember this morning clearly, the day I had been waiting for, When I received my SAT scores. I had never been a super bad student, just never really a good one, grades have never been important to me, it was always about friends. The spots for athlete and genius in my seemingly perfect family had already been filled by my younger brother and older sister, so I put my effort into doing the one thing I could do that no one else would- be popular. I’m not really trying to say that I’m the most popular girl in the world but I've always
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I was used to my mom's obvious preference to Lana- In everything but something about my own stress levels set me off. I got up and turned my back on my family before they could see the hot tears of anger running down my cheeks. I silently and calmly walked back to my room, making sure that i kept my cool in order to show them i didn’t care. I slammed my door closed and I began to remember that there is no way that i did good on my test, It’s not possible. I’m Bella Drake, the dumb one, Lana Drake is the smart one. I always had been, always will be right? I mean how did I think that I could just change overnight, there was no changing the fact that i would never be as good as my older sister. I heard a small knock on my door and before i could stop tell Porter to leave me alone, he let himself in my room.
“Porter. Get. Out. Of. My. Room. Now.” I barked at him with a poker face.
He didn’t say anything as he slowly walked towards me, as if i was a rabid animal that might bite his head off. He sat on the corner of my messy bed in silence for a few moments until he broke it by saying,
“You really need to clean your room, you can barely see the

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