Personal Narrative: Spring Break In High School

“Hey lets all go to Florida together for spring break, it’s our senior year and we have to end it with something fun!”, Phu whispers in biology class. Parker, Ethan, Hunter, John, and Toby all turned to me as if they already agreed with Phu. All I could think about was how much trouble me and boys would get me into. Sounded fun anyways. “Alright, we’ll head out friday after we get out of school”, I said. Phu looked at me and said “It’s a wrap!”. The only issue is convincing my parents to let me go with no parents supervision.
I wasn't really sure how to bring it up to my parents that I wanted to go to Florida for four days without any parents. My parents have never trusted me enough to let me go out of the state by myself let alone to Florida on spring break. I spent days of doing extra around the house to get my parents to notice thinking maybe it would help my chances of going. The Wednesday before we got out for spring break my parents handed me eight hundred dollars and told me to be safe and enjoy myself. That friday after school we all met up in the parking lot of our school and loaded up Phu’s four runner with all of our belongings and headed south to Destin, Florida. We stopped in Memphis, Tennessee to pick up Jared (aka Ernie). As soon as we pulled into Destin we headed straight to our
condo we were staying in for the week and unloaded all of our stuff, we all decided to shower and take a nap before the merrymaking began. As soon as we all woke up after our naps and such, we of course started to drink. We pre-gamed at the condo and then headed down to the beach. The first night didn’t go as planned. Parker, Phu, Ethan, John, and Toby all got arrested and they all got MIP’s while we were all trying to go eat breakfast at Waffle House. Hunter, Jared, and I all went to Walton County Jail to pick our buddies up and we all headed home to get some sleep for the next day.
The next day we all wake up questioning if we had made the right decision coming to Florida. We were all almost broke and it was only the first day. Of course we all contacted our parents making up our own story as to why we were all broke. Eventually we all squeezed more money out of our parents and headed to the mall to get dry clothes because the cops had split our cooler all over our clothes the night before.
The third day we woke up pretty early and went to the same Waffle House we had got in trouble at to get breakfast. We had nothing planned on this day so we decided to hit the beach and roam around town. Jon’s bad luck didn't stop with just gettin arrested. Our first time getting into the ocean and Jon didn’t empty his pockets before he ran into the water ruining his phone. At the time it didn’t seem like a big deal, jon just didn’t have a phone till we got home. This became a huge issue when we all got separated from each other in the large crowd of people. A few hours roll along and we still have no idea where Jon was so we began to worry. For the next day and a half we had thought we lost our friend and our parents would be pissed until the phone rang. Jon had managed stay with a group of girls he had met on the beach till he found us. This terrifying event almost ended our trip early. Hunter and Parker wanted to go home after this and even called their parents to come get them. Their parents refused of course. The fourth day we recovered from the last few days and just grilled and hung out at the condo.
We invited over some of the girls we met on the beach to dinner. We decided to have a little get together with everyone on our last night. After dinner, we got all of our stuff together and got the four runner loaded up for the morning. The next day we got up and headed home. We stopped in Memphis again and spent the night at Jared’s house. I feel like this was the best night of the whole trip because none of us got in trouble and had a home cooked meal. Looking back the trip was worth the trouble I got in then I got home. I have already decided that I am going back this
year.