I Am A Good Life Lesson

Elyar, my best friend had just told me ,Ricky, was now gonna tell the principal what I done. It didn't occur to me this was going to happen when I punched his brother ,Duke . Oh, God my dad is gonna kill me. His brother told me my sister, Sanai looked like a flat tire. I was so protective over my sister I couldn't take it. But, maybe I would be off the hook with my dad because I was defending her. Sanai most of the time thought I was her police because I would stick up for her. But, because dad was working 12 and a half hours each day it was my job to protect her. Next year when im in middle school she wont have

I procrastinate for an hour or two but then push myself to do my homework. After 3 hours of hell, I finally completed all of it and decide to take a shower. Once I get out, I get out my speakers and begin to play 'I like it when you sleep for you are beautiful yet so unaware of it' probably one of the best albums ever released. Over all of the loud music I hear a loud bang from downstairs. I quickly shut off the music and wait to see if I will be able to hear the noise again. Yep, there it is. I swiftly open my door and walk downstairs and see my mom on a rampage. She screaming and throwing things and I am bewildered.

I haven’t been able to sleep for the past month. I hear my door creak and I look at the door. I see someone open the door very slowly before coming in. I look to see Maria tiptoeing into my room. “What are you doing?” I ask “You know your mom would kill me if she saw us.”

May 8th 2014, a Thursday night on a school night. At the time, I was 13, nearly finished with middle school and soon to be graduating onto high school. On this particular night, I sit at my kitchen table across from my older sister, both grasping our 3DS's playing our favorite game at the time: Animal Crossing. In the midst of an intense competition of catching fruit as we race against the clock, my mom moseys into the kitchen and sits between us. She demands that we put down our consoles. My sister complies, whereas I ignore her and attempt to finish up my game. My mom then forces me to end my game, explaining that she desperately needs my attention. She gathers herself and thinks for a moment, finally spitting out the words “I'm moving out”.

Beep... Beep… Beep. I open my eyes to bright lights in an unbearably white room. Beep… Beep… Beeeeeeeeeeep. “She’s crashing!” a disembodied voice yells... darkness. Beep… Beep... the voice reappears, “We’ve got a pulse!” I gulp in the air; the cold, beautiful air. “I can’t see!” I scream, but no words come out. My last thought as my world begins to fade around me, “Ow… My head…”

The bell had just rang, school was out. “Olivia, Mrs. Larsson calls.” Olivia is in 6th grade. Her teacher Mrs. Larsson talks to her every day after school telling her the same thing over and over. “You been misbehaving at lunch today”! But this time it was different. “Olivia it's your turn to stay after school and clean the room”. Olivia hated cleaning the room after school, she always ended up staying too late. “ Now run along and tell your mother, I don’t want her to worry like she did last time!” “Ok Mrs. Larsson.” I reply, I run to call my mom but she didn't answer, and my dad was at work so I couldn't call him. “Yup my mom knows.” I say, but she really didn't. “Ok then, well I am going to go home so behave yourself!” Mrs. Larsson says

Ryder’s class. So, then I realized that My laptop was in my room. So I opened the door slowly and want to my table and grab my MacBook. Then when I was coming back I fell down on the floor. “Boom”!! Immediately my parents came upstairs like they were going to go run a race, and like they were going to win.They saw my door opened. My sister came to my room with her phone, and says” should i call the doctor, or should I call 911, or wait should I go get your phone and call the doctor”. “Go get my phone, and call the doctor as quick as possible” dad reply after hearing my sister Brooklyn talk a

I had finally had enough of Anna, so i told my mom and dad what had been going on, mom said “well im proud of you and jessica for being the bigger person about all of this mess, so i will talk to your principal tomorrow morning”. I was having a normal day no jessica problems in matter in fact i have not seen her all day until… They called me down to the office as if i was in trouble, but really is was my dad picking me up for the day, because my mom had died. I was too worried about Anna, that i didn't even realize that my

I groaned at the incessant beeping of my alarm clock, rolling over to search for the snooze. I had stayed up until midnight the previous night with an engrossing book, and I was by no means ready to get up now.

I slowly crawled out of the room I was in and took a seat at the dining table along with my sister. I was too frightened to confess, not knowing what would happen if I came clean. They promised I wouldn’t be in trouble, but I didn’t feel as if I could trust their words. About ten minutes later, I cracked and admitted to having eaten her food. Michelle took over the reins from my mother and began issuing out my punishment. I was to be spanked, grounded for two weeks, have my computer and iPod rights revoked for a month, and it was demanded that I write seven hundred lines of, “I must not tell lies to adults.” I endured, but after that entire ordeal was over, Michelle was constantly looking over my shoulder. I found myself in trouble for even more bizarre claims after that. If I didn’t blink enough times while looking at her, I would be grounded. If I appeared frightened while looking at her, I would be grounded. If I told my mom my honest opinion on Michelle, I would, again, be grounded. I ended up being grounded for roughly a year for minor issues that didn’t truly matter. I never earned a grade less than an A in the three years I lived with them. I was in fact an honor roll student. I didn’t roll my eyes or throw attitude in contrast to my other sister and I only spoke when directly asked a question. I wasn’t a disobedient

It was a rainy Friday morning, I knew something wasn’t right when I was woken up by my sister, a junior in high school, talking loudly about how she was happy school was canceled because she had barely got any sleep the night before. I log on to my Facebook account only to see parents of kids complaining how it’s

Even though it didn’t seem as if I had slept very long, I woke up, and saw it was two in the afternoon. I thought that was weird. Why didn’t Mom wake me up? Even if it’s accidentally, Mom seemed to always wake me up on the weekends—my alarm clock did that job for me on weekdays. My mom vacuums, yells at my dad, and plays her eighties’ pop cassettes most mornings—loudly. Then I realized something: Mom told me last night that she and Dad were driving a few hours

I told her that I didn’t know where they were. The school wanted to charge my mom something like $45 a book. She couldn’t understand how I could’ve lost the books when I went from home to school every day. She called my teacher and had my teacher ask all of the parents. Come to find out Liani’s mom said they were laying in her living room. My teacher called my mom and told her what she had found out. I came home and my mom asked me what Liani was doing with my books. So I told her the truth and said “Liani asked me for the books and said her mom was going to beat her with a belt unless she went home with them” so I gave them to her. My mom told me “but you were punished all week with no TV because you couldn’t find the books” so I told her I know but I felt bad for Liani. I didn’t get in trouble for lying because my mom said this shows your true character of who you are and to this day cannot get over the loyalty I showed to Liani because I felt her punishment was way worse than

While the teachers we’re giving me a lecture about how irresponsible I was and that we just did an assembly on this and that if I liked it if I threw a rock at my head while trying to bandage Ethan up like some sort of mummy. When my Mom came she looked at me with eyes that pretty much said you’re gonna die. After my mom apologizing for my actions of how irresponsible I was and saying that what I did was a very stupid thing while going to Ethan and saying “I will do worse to him don’t worry.” she brought me to the car and hollered at me saying “How could you do that! This will affect where you go, you’re very lucky to not be expelled!” after her screaming and long awkward silence and me trying to think about what I could say to defend myself I thought of the most obvious answer “It’s not that big of a deal.”. Mom roared saying “Not a big of a deal? Young man that kid could of have died and it would be on your hands! Do you want to murder people? How #@$!ed are you! Who raised you to be like this; who’s teaching you this kinda of stuff. I’m willing to bet it’s those video games that your dad buys you. Oh man, when we get home I’m gonna take every single belonging of yours and give you the worst time of your life!”.

Once I got home I finished my dinner and smiled to myself for standing up to Adria. "What 's got you so happy" my mom chuckles as she walks into the kitchen. "Nothing much" I say giving her a hug. "Tomorrow is Saturday have any plans?" She asks taking a glass out of the cabinet. "I might go over to a friends house" I say shrugging. "Okay, I 'm going to head to bed I have some things to take care of early tomorrow I love you" she says kissing my forehead. "I love you too mom" I say. She smiles and trudges up the stairs to her room and soon I do the same.