Personal Narrative: Melanie

Melanie,

I just wanted to touch base because my dad and I have been talking and have come to the conclusion that we both feel that I've never really been able to voice my reasoning for doing what I did and, if I was give the opportunity it was given to me in a very stressful time. As I'm sure you know I was made the section leader of my band's alto saxophone section and a part of that responsibility was leading small group rehearsals, getting people to work, and things like that. Brandon was a member of my section and didn't make that job easy. He always seemed to find a way to make it difficult to lead a rehearsal whether it be goofing around, talking to other people, or not playing the piece of music that we were trying to practice it always
seemed there was something he would do to be dissrespectful. I finally got sick of this after two years (I was section leader my Junior year as well). As I've mentioned before, the day before the incident while at rehearsal Brandon was goofing around and decided that he was going to hurdle me. In doing so he landed within a couple inches of both me and my instrument, this act ticked me off especially both because it was just a matter of inches of him landing on me or my instrument, which I'm responsible for financially. This didn't really seem to bother him so I got up and went to tell him to stop which he just laughed off. Jack and I did talk but it was more of a "God I just wanna knock him on his ass" kind of thing not a planning or anything of the sort. The next day, the day of the incident, I was still kind of ticked off from the night before and then prior to getting on the bus I received what I considered to be a nasty look from Brandon and I decided that I was done and was gonna hit him. To why I hit him in the back it was less of a "oh let's fight this out" and more of a alright I'm done joking around I'm gonna put an end to this here and now.

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