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Sammy Saunders-Personal Narrative
Sammy Saunders, was a young boy, about 5 foot 2, with a mop of brown hair that was always sticking out on the sides. He wore thick glasses that made his eyes pop out of his head, and he had a nose that looked as though it was pointing at you. He always wore the same pair of blue sneakers that had a blood stain on the toe from when Big Billy Benson punched him in the nose, causing it to bleed. Poor Sammy was always bullied because, he was just a little bit different than the rest of the kids at Sleepy Hollow Middle School. Sammy would always walk the long way home from school to avoid Billy and his gang who would throw rocks at him. He walked this way because it was past a large old house, and all of the other kids were scared of it. The House was two stories tall with a peaked roof that had holes in it. The High school kids had written graffiti on the sides, and the windows were all but shards of glass. The white paint was peeling off and the gray wood appeared behind it. The door to enter was open, and it seemed to look like a black hole, the shrubs and grass were so over grown they covered the bottom half of the house with all but the door covered. …show more content…

When they ran out of water they decided to stop and throw dirt and rocks at him, one rock hit Sammy in the glasses and they fell off his face and fell onto the pavement, shattering as they hit. In order to get away Sammy decided to be brave and ran into the yard of the house. Billy was still able to throw rocks that far and was yelling “Stupid Sammy” and coming closer. Sammy was struck in the back of the head and felt blood running down his neck, he finally ran into the gaping doorway and he was finally

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