Narrative Paper: Introduction

It started when I moved in with my aunt’s house because we couldn’t afford to live in our old house. So we moved from Lynwood, California to Norwalk, California. So now that I was living at my aunts house my brother and I hanged out with my cousin a lot. We would get bored and think of things to do like go to the store, park, or to a friends house. We thought of everything we could do. We couldn’t go far because we had no car and we didn’t have a lot of money.

After a while of doing the same thing over and over again we started getting bored. So my cousin told us about this movie theaters a couple blocks away from our house. We went to check it out on a Tuesday night. It turns out Tuesday night the price went down. It was like 3 dollars normal price and Tuesday nights it went to 2 dollars. So we went for a couple times then we wanted some snacks but didn’t have enough money. So one night we went bought the tickets and started walking around to other stores trying to pass time. We went in to the 99-cent store and bough six sodas for a dollar. When we came out the store my brother had taken some candy. So next Tuesday we bought the ticket went to the 99-cent store and toke some candy.

At first when we went back to jack some candy I was scared. I dint know what to do. Every time before we went in the store my bother and cousin would tell me don’t get nervous don’t look suspicious just act normal. So I did but my heart was still pumping like crazy. But after a while, kept doing it every Tuesday. It was like what ever like if the people who work there didn’t even care what we did in that store. It came to a point where we were having competitions to see who can steal the most candy or who can steal the biggest thing. I still have the record between us. I stole the most and the biggest out of both of them. Little kid like 7 years old beating the older kids in what they showed me. It was still a trip because we did it to get what we wanted but then it turned into a game. Most of the candy I didn’t even eat. I ended up throwing it away.

Its weird to have started young. But it has affected me. To me when you start young you keep doing it and when you get older you get worst and keep jacking things. From candy to I pod then later you start breaking into houses. I am not saying I’ve done it or it is happening to me but its were leads to. Then you will get caught possibly get locked up. If your lucky maybe you won’t. it is a habit that you can easily fall into. It has changed me I don’t regret it but. That’s what I did and I learned something. Its not good but if I need something real bad I know how to get it.


Brayan