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The Bonifest Weekend: A Short Story

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I am never intentionally doing things to get myself in trouble but for some unknown reason trouble seems to find me. Things started taking a turn for the worse starting this past summer. My dad wasn't living at home at the time so my mom was allowing me to do a little bit more than normal. It was the first weekend of summer, Bonifest weekend. The Bonifest is a small carnival that the church in town holds and I go to it every year. This year I decided to go with my friend Lydia. Lydia and I had grown quite close over the past couple weeks and I couldn't imagine spending the first weekend of summer going into our senior year with anybody else. Lydia had asked if I minded if some of her friends came with us. I had never meet these people but …show more content…

When we got there, they had lights everywhere. With a ride that was so fast in high it made my stomach turn just looking at it. The bad was so loud and energetic, and although not the best put on an amazing show that made you want to have just as much fun as possible. The smell of funnel cake was in the air and I was had a smile on my face the whole time. We rode every ride possible, danced to the not so good music and laughed until our stomachs hurt. I never wanted the night to end. This was the first night in a long time that I could remember having that much fun. I was surrounded by people who I genuinely enjoyed. As it was approaching eleven and the carnival was shutting down, I didn't want to leave my new friends. I was supposed to go home after the carnival but I had called my mom and asked for permission to go out to dinner with Lydia and my new friends. She told me that I could go but I needed to be home by midnight because she didn't want to stay up to late. I said “ Thanks mom, love …show more content…

When we left, JT and I rode together, Lydia and our friend Maddie, who also decided to go, went together and Tommy and Rasheed went together. For some reason that is still unknown, Rasheed and Tommy took thirty minutes longer than everybody else to get there. The rest of us went inside and ordered our food and just talked. We talked about super personal things. I barely knew these people but I had never felt more comfortable in my life. You know what they say, time flies when you're having fun, and that's exactly what happened. I was 11:45 and I still hadn't gotten my food yet. My phone was dead but I figured that since my mom knew where I was and what I was doing that it would be okay. I never lost interest in what we were talking about. For whatever reason, Tommy started talking about how he is very intimidated by bald men. Just as he was explaining why I look up and my dad is at the door. My dad who is bald no less. I checked the time and it was 12:45. He looked at me and I could tell by the tense eyes and stiff body movement that I was in trouble. He looked me dead in the eyes and

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