Narrative

Graduation Night

               

                It was a beautiful, sunny, Saturday morning.  May 25^th 2013, a day I will never forget as long as I live, Graduation Day.  It was a day that motivated me more than anything to be successful in my future life to come. The birds and crickets chirping, cars driving by, all sounding like a beautiful melody. I was tired because I had barely slept the night before, my mind racing like no other.  What if I fall? What if they forget to call my name?  I was thinking about every possible thing that could go wrong. We were told to arrive at our assigned rooms at 9:00 am, and the ceremony was scheduled to start at 11:00 am. As we waited we decided to take a walk around the school for the last time. As I walked memories came rushing back, it was like I was in a time machine. I thought about my first day of high school, how nervous I was. I thought about homecoming, our senior prank and how we blocked the parking lot so students couldn’t get through. I thought about my last day of senior year, how we all brought our dogs to school. The principal was furious but couldn’t help but laugh. It all just seemed so surreal, am I really about to graduate?

As we all walked onto the field, I remember feeling so happy. My head held high, walking with purpose. I was so proud of myself for working so hard to be where I was. Walking to my seat I heard “Woo, go Alyssa!” my face red as ever as my family screamed my name. As we took our seats the principal gave an introduction speech and the ceremony began. I had my favorite teacher Mr. Nesselroad give me my diploma. He was my chemistry teacher. Although he was hard on us, it was only to make us stronger, and confident that we could achieve any career we dreamed of with hard work and dedication. I couldn’t explain how I felt being handed my diploma because it was all such a blur. I was numb and in total shock with the biggest smile on my face. After saying my goodbyes, I headed off to graduation party after graduation party. My best friend Brittany and I decided we wanted to do something fun to end the night, so we gathered up all of our friends and we decided to go to a party. We stopped at a nearby gas station, UDF, to get some snacks. That was when our night took a huge turn of events, when the night got horrifying. As we were shopping we noticed a man that was staring at us and smiling. He was about thirty five, with short black hair. He wore a gray shirt and a red Ohio state cap. Freaked out by the man, we left in a hurry and after driving for about twenty minutes I realized someone was following me. “Hey do you guys think this man is following us?” I said worried. “Yes, let’s make some random turns and try to lose them” my friend Taylor said.  But they were persistent, we started to panic. “Oh my gosh what do we do? I’m too young to die”. My friend Brittany said in a panic. “I have an idea! Let’s run through this yellow light leaving them stuck on red” I said confidently.  I hit the pedal with force flying through the light, just as it was turning red. Looking back we realized the car had run the red light. “AHH” we all screamed.  In a panic we drove straight to the police station. The car had followed us into the police station, luckily cops were outside. “Help this man is following us, we don’t know who he is “we all yelled.  All at once cops came rushing in, arresting the man. Just as we had thought, it was the man from the gas station. The police came to us telling us the man was drunk, he said he was certain we had told him to follow us. Laughing he calmed us down telling us it happens all the time, and not to worry. We were told to fill out statements of what exactly happened and then were free to go. 

                Out of all of the crazy nights I’ve had, graduation night was definitely the best by far. Even though it was a scary experience I learned a lot that night. I learned about opportunities, how hard work pays off and that you should never give up. Getting my diploma motivated me more than ever to achieve everything I have always dreamed off. And I hope to one day become successful and prove everyone who doubted me wrong, making my friends and family proud.