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Personal Narrative: Pedro Juanito's Life In Mexico
It was Nine O’clock, Pedro Juanito and his family had just arrived at their new house located in Woodgrove, California. As soon as they got in the driveway everyone began to feel relieved after eight hours of flying and driving from Mexico. Before Pop could turn the engine off everyone opened their doors and ran inside to see how astonishing their new house was. Everyone except Pedro was excited because Pedro had just got used to life in Mexico and he didn’t want to move. After everyone looked around and assigned rooms, everyone went to bed for school and work except Pedro, he just sat there wandering what his new school would be like and if people would like him. After around 30 minutes of thinking Pedro finally got tired and went to sleep …show more content…
After a long day of working it was finally time to go home and Pedro was exhausted. On his way home he thought about Josh and how he was going to get beat up Logan and him but he trusted what Logan said and was less worried. The next day While they were walking to their first period they encountered Josh again and he said “todays the day” as soon as he said that Pedro’s heart shrunk and Pedro began to worry. He wanted to believe he wasn’t going to do anything but deep inside Pedro was terrified and believed that Josh was going to hurt him. That afternoon he knew that it was going to go down. After another casual boring day of school Pedro and Logan decided to walk home together to make sure nothing happened to each other, After a while of walking they thought nothing was going to happen and thought he had lied. As soon as Pedro and Logan got to their neighborhoods Josh and his gang appeared in front of them. Logan told Pedro to run home he would handle it but Pedro wouldn’t let him fight by himself, so he

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