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Personal Statement : ' Crap '

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“Crap! What have I done?” That is all that came to mind as I heard the wood splinter and crack. I did not even care about the puddle of blood that was beginning to form under my leg. In fact, I was not even conscious of it. All I could think about was how much trouble I was going to be in when my parents found out.
It has been almost two years since I got into that crash. It happened on a Saturday night when I was supposed to be at home and in my bed. My parents, who were going out to a concert, had ordered my brother, David, and I not to go out that night. However, as soon as they left, I received a text. It was my best friend, Lilly, telling me that she and some other friends were leaving a party to go hang out at the Waffle House near …show more content…

Before I knew it, it was almost midnight and my parents were going to be home at any minute. In fact, they had just called to say that they would be there in about ten minutes.
“Ten minutes! How am I going to get back in ten minutes?” I panicked. My perfect plan was falling apart and I did not know what to do, so I decided to take a dimly-lit shortcut home, hoping that I would make it there before they did.
I was almost home when it happened. I am not quite sure of how exactly it happened - maybe it was because of that night’s excitement or the fact that I was struggling to see - but before I knew it, something was cracking. I had hit what felt like a tree upon contact and my windshield was cracking. I had hit a light post.
I blacked out for a few seconds and when I finally regained consciousness, it felt like I had been sleeping for a while. My head was throbbing and I could not understand what was going on. “Where am I?” I thought, and that is when it hit me.
“Crap! What have I done?” I yelled at myself
“I can die any day, except for today. I cannot die today!” I cried.
It was also then that I noticed that my leg felt weird - almost wet. I looked down and pouring out of my leg, like crimson rain, was blood. There was so much blood and not knowing what to do, I cried even harder. I surely thought that I was going to bleed out that night. Then, remembering that there was a pile of clothes in the backseat, I grabbed one and wrapped it around my

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