Personal Narrative: Finish Up High

Graham Davis Mrs. Magaha English 111-08 21 September 2012 Finish Up Strong My senior year started off just like in movies I was the star football player that got everything handed to him. I made good grades; all of my teachers liked me. Basically, life was great. Things slowly started to change and they all hit at the same time. My teachers stopped letting me get away with turning in work late and being late to class. My parents stopped giving me money and told me I would have to get a job. I always thought jobs were pointless you bust your tail to receive minimum wage plus I was in football season so I surely wasn’t getting a job. These things started to get to
I had a few great colleges looking at me like Allegheny College, Juniata College, and the University of Toledo. Everything was going smoothly except I haven’t got an official football offer. I maintained average grades just to get by. Now that football season was over I had more time to hang out with friends.
Around the second week of March, I was driving to pick up a friend so we can go hang out with our prom dates. Upon him getting in, I asked him if he had anything illegal on him. He said “C’mon G you know I’m good when I’m around you.” Halfway to my dates house, he received a phone that sounded like his mom yelling at him, telling to come home. He asked, “Can you take me home real quick? I will fill ya car up on gas.” I replied “Yeah.” Arriving to his apartment complex I got a weird feeling, but proceeded to drop him off. He
Pulling back to the entrance I saw several undercover police with their guns drawn. One officer waved for me to come to him. He ordered, “Park the car and get out. You’re under arrest.” Confused to why I was being arrested I blurted, “For what?” The cops didn’t answer my question but they frisked me. The cop arrested me and took me to the Monroeville Police station where I thought about my life. I know I just lost all the trust and disappointed my parents, I’m now in trouble with the law, no school had offered me a scholarship, and my grades were average. The head detective called my parents in for a conference. In the conference with my parents, the detective explained that they had set up a drug bust for my friend. Then he said they had a cop informant ask my friend for 1 gram of heroin ($500 worth) and the cops would bust him upon him arriving. The detective said he knew I had nothing to do with the drugs but if I write a statement saying it was all my friend then he would let me go with no charges but if i didn’t i would have 7 charges against me including conspiracy with possession of