Everything started to change. I started doing stuff I shouldn’t have done, started hanging out and trusting people I barley just met, my grades were dropping, and everything was changing including me. I was changing all because of my choices and so called friends, for I thought they were my friends. But as my parents once told me “A real friend won’t let you do stupid things, they will help you be successful” and those ‘friends’ I had, weren’t my true friends. They weren’t my friends because they talked me into doing stuff I wasn’t supposed to do. Out of five of us only three actually were real friends. The other two weren’t real friends.

Everything started off fine in the first month of school. I would always go to class and I would have good grades and I would always do what I was supposed to do I would go to all my classes and I would always hang out with Stacy and Jesus. Stacy and Jesus were close friends of mine; we were close friends since the 6th grade. I only had four close friends Stacy, Jesus, Sundus, and Beatriz I always told them everything that was going on with me or just random stuff going on. The first week of September stuff was changing. On September 5th, 2014 I remember I was in school about to go to my 7B class, when Beatriz and Lola came up to me and Lola told me if I would skip class with them I didn’t want to at first, but then she kept telling me it was only going to be for today so I ended up going with them we started walking around the school. We would go to 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th lunch and then once 4th lunch was over I went to my 8B class and everything was again like normal. The next day we skipped again, and it started off like that. We would start skipping mostly every day we would only skip our 7B and 3A class, but then we started skipping the last two classes’ as well. It started becoming a habit of skipping class every day, but then I started thinking they might call my parents asking why I wasn’t in class, so for a week I went to my class and would do my work, but then the next week we would skip again.

Then one day we were in lunch and my cousin Raquel came and Lola told her to stay with us and not go back to class, but she didn’t want to get in trouble so she said no at first then Lola started talking her into skipping with us so at the end she agreed to skip with us, but then she told us she had to get her stuff from her class, so Lola and I went to her class and got her stuff. She ended up getting called to the office during 4th lunch and she had to go hide during 4th lunch and when it was over she ended up skipping her last class and she told me to stay with her, but since the teacher she had was my last teacher I said no because the teacher already saw me and if I didn’t go she was going to know I was skipping her class. And I wasn’t trying to get caught just yet. So Lola stayed with Raquel then me and Beatriz went to class since we have the same last block we got there late and the teacher asked why we were late and I told her my stomach was hurting so I went to the bathroom for a while because I thought I was going to throw up and then Beatriz told her she was with me in case I did throw up she could call someone to pick me up and the teacher told us it was fine and let us in the class. When that class was over with we were outside and Raquel and Lola came so then we all left home. The next day Raquel and Lola told Beatriz and I to skip with them so we did and then we all were skipping now. Then a week later Beatriz met Jose and he told her to walk out with him and his squad, so she came and told us she wanted to, but didn’t want to go alone and Lola started saying “me and Jenni can go with you” and she said if I would and I told her it was already too much skipping and now we were going to walk out so I said no then Lola kept telling me to go with them and I would tell her no its too risky what if we get caught and Lola would say we wouldn’t, but I kept telling them no. The next day Lola didn’t go to school and I was only with Beatriz and Raquel and that’s when Beatriz told us if we were going to walk out with them and I told her okay let’s go so she could stop bothering me. Jose texted Beatriz telling her to go to the auditorium and wait for him so when we were there he pulled up, but when we were about to walk out a teacher came so we pretended to go inside the auditorium and he went outside and once he didn’t Jose backed out and the teacher saw him since he had the windows down and we went to go hide.

The teacher came back inside calling one of the police telling him that a red truck pulled up and that it was full of people and that it seemed like they came to pick up someone and the he said three girls were in the auditorium and once they went outside we ran to the other side were the vending machines are, but we saw a principle standing there and we ran to were the band room was so we just went and hid there when we heard it was quiet we ran outside and passed the gym and there was a gym teacher standing there and when I turned around I saw a police behind us and he asked the gym teacher were we came from then once we were in the stairwell we ran upstairs and the police started running after us, but we went inside a class room and lost him when we saw the hallway was clear we ran to the bathroom and stayed there for the rest of the time.

The next day at school I was in class with Stacy and she wasn’t talking to me and I told her what was wrong and she would ignore me then she told me I was changing and that she didn’t like that I was skipping and that it was all Beatriz’s fault and I got mad and told her not to blame other people for my choices and we were just arguing and I told her I was done with her that I didn’t care if she wanted to talk to me or not so from there on we stopped talking and I lost a really close friend, but it was whatever. Days passed and we still were skipping then one day they told Beatriz, Lola, and me to walk out so we did and it was about five of us who walked out the car was packed, but it was too late to turn back so we ended up going to some girls house then to a walk out party there was beer and people smoking. Beatriz and I shared a beer and Lola went outside with Jose and Jose C. to smoke and then she came back and would drink a lot of beers then she was gone so I took her upstairs and she knocked out. Beatriz and I were just chilling outside the door and it was already 1:40 and I told Victor to start heading back to school so I went inside the room to wake up Lola and she woke up. Then we got here just on time we came in from the back, but by the time I went to my car it was 2:15 and my mom started tripping asking why I was late and she started saying she was going to call my dad to ask if I would go late to class, and then once I got home I knocked out and didn’t wake up till late at night. From that day we still were skipping and would walk out, but I only walked out three times the last time for me was on Halloween we walked out and it was Beatriz, Raquel, Lola, Chivi, Jose, Jose C., Jesus, Micheal, Spooky, Jackie, and I we ended up going to some guys house and they were drinking and smoking and once again Beatriz and I shared a beer Lola was the one who was gone again and she was too loud we got kicked out and we had to go to this house so Lola laid down on a couch and Jose C. went over there and started being all up on her touching and kissing her and hour passed and she finally was good and mad because they told her what she was doing and she started yelling saying why we didn’t help her and stuff.

But we just ignored her and when I got home Lola texted me saying she got caught and then after that she never texted back. Then after a week I was in Math class when I got called to the office and I saw her and her mom in there and her mom started blaming me for everything and I told her that, that wasn’t how it went her daughter was the one that would talk me into skipping and walking out ten she accused me saying if I would talk to her daughter she would get the police on me so just to get Lola’s mom mad I started talking to Lola and her mom just rolled her eyes and from there I knew Lola wasn’t a true friend because she snitched on all of us saying it was our fault when in reality it was her fault. From there on me and Lola don’t talk only me and Beatriz and sometimes Raquel talk, but I’m just started to drift away from them only true friend I have now is Valeria and Chris and I’m good with just them two. So yeah this is my story of falling into bad habits and trusting the wrong people.