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Personal Narrative: Get Me Out

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Get me out of here. I know something is about to happen, I feel it in my gut. It's a setup for failure, really. A party at an estranged house on the edge of the city full of nothing but intoxicated and incapacitated teens. Something is bound to go down. I started to think of ways to get out without just bluntly saying it. “Yo Trey, check it out!”, I turn and see my boy Ice, my teammate and best friend since third grade. “You see all these honeys up in here? You know they love football players haha, better rep the huskies tonight!” I grin, he was right after all. I was the starting quarterback back for the Wake Forest Huskies varsity team, so I couldn't just leave the party. Me and my boys, we the life of the party. “Aye, but I'ma catch you later bro, ya know Jaida waiting for my upstairs, ya feel me?”, I roll my eyes. “Jaila. Her name’s Jaila.” Ice always has a different female at every party we go to, and he goes to all he can. “I don't care if her name was Humpty-Dumpty ghee, all I know is she look good tonight.” As Ice jogged upstairs, I saw …show more content…

“I don't know, somebo-”, she started to say, but she was interrupted by a gunshot from upstairs. The music keeps blaring, and time froze. Everybody was paralyzed by fear- that is, until the first person dashed out of the front door. I grab Genesis and bolted to the front room, only to see a throng of teens stampeding her front door. We jump out of the front window and hop in the back of my pickup truck across the street. “Stay down.”, I say, not realizing how obvious and idiotic i sounded. I knew it. I should have left. But I didn't, so now I’m stuck hiding in the back of my pickup truck because Ice had my spare key. Where is Ice? Actually… I haven't seen him or Jaila since he went upstairs. I wait another ten minutes, which felt like hours when there was a shooter literally within 50 yards of me. There was only one gunshot, that is if it was a

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