Narrative: Final Paper

Well before I got locked up, I was living on my own in Salt Lake City. I was living in a house, which my dad still had owned for a while. But then after that my dad and me got in a fight, he left to Mexico and left me in the house with only 500 dollars. I also only had a week to stay in the house because my dad had sold it mean while; I was stealing just to get money.

I didn’t know what to do because I had nowhere to live at and had no job. Plus I was on the run because I had a warrant for not showing up in court, also because of drugs. Then I my cousin heard what happened and he came to me and asked me if I wanted to go live with him so then I moved with him into his house up in west valley, But he said if I wanted to stay there I had to start working to so, then I finally got a job in Carl’s Jr. and I got it so quick because my cousin new the people there. So it was going great there but then I started going to work drunk and doing drugs again, which got me fired. I only lasted for like three months there it was a big disappointment to my cousin and me. Later on my cousin kicked me out of his house but I understood him it was actually all my fault so I left but still thanked him for letting me stay there.

Then I just started thinking about turning my self in, but I just choose to keep running which was really stupid of me. So then I moved into my aunt’s house in Rose Park, my aunt new I was on the run but she didn’t want me to get locked up. Well I still kept doing drugs and I was mostly never at my aunts I was in the streets causing trouble. My aunt was always worried about me she is like a mother to. Then something really bad happened at my house some gang members torched my other cousin’s car, which also lived at my aunt’s house, it happened around three in the morning. Cops came over to investigate so I left so I wouldn’t get caught. The next morning I went back and I was the only one at the house. Then someone started knocking so I went to answer the door and it was the cops. They still didn’t know I had a warrant but then they looked me up on their computer then I got taken in to the detention center.

So I was locked up for at least a month, then after that I got sent to a program called Genesis. I went there to finish my community hours then they let me go home. Then I screwed up again got locked up and sent to another program called O&A and was there for almost two months. Then I got sent to a proctor home which I am at right now and trying to graduate and change my life and show my family and other people that I can do better. Its not worth messing up your life and getting into drugs.

Edgar