As usual I was a teen who wanted to be cool like everybody else. It was a summer day I was hanging out with one of my friends. Me and my best friend Selena were hanging out walking down the street and we wanted to go get a drink or something from the store down the street so we started walking towards the light. She asked me "have you ever stolen anything from the store?" I told her "no, I've never even done anything like that, my mom would kill me!" She asked me "well do you wanna do it?" I said "sure, but you can't make it obvious" she told me that shes done it a lot of times before and hasn't ever been caught.
I believed her and went along with it trying to be cool. As we entered the store we went over to the soda machine and filled up a 42 oz. of Dr. Pepper. I turned and walked to the candy section and grabbed a snickers and some skittles. I watched as Selena walked to the other isle. She grabbed something but I couldn't quite make out what it was. She can back over to me and she opened my back pack and she stuck a box with 3 condoms inside my bag and zipped it up. As we walked to the cashier to pay for our soda she said "girls can I check your bag? You girls seemed sneaky about something over there."
I said "well our parents are expecting us home soon so we just need to pay for our soda." She told us to follow her to the back office. We had no choice. We went to the back with her. She showed us the video cameras of us putting stuff in the bag and she called the cops. The cop came and said "well ladies what do we have here? I need you to pull everything out of your bag." I did as he said. He called our parents and told them to come get us and that we were being charged $300 dollar fine for shoplifting. My mom came to pick me up and she said to me "Raquel, you can't hang out with Selena anymore shes a bad influence on you and you now have to pay $300 dollars to the state for your consequence. Why would you do this?!" I just shook my head and said "I don't know."
From that day on I NEVER stole or planned on stealing again. I'd learned my lesson. Till this day I've not seen or talked to Selena because of that day. I lost a best friend and I can't take her back and don't plan on it. I feel that even though she was a good friend to me she wasn't a positive role model towards me I learned how to better my friends and pick the better influenced ones instead of the ones who got into trouble all the time.
5 comments:
Hopefully you have learned from this I no how it is it sucks getting in trouble especially knowing you will lose a friend but sometimes loosing that friend is the best thing possible because you have one less thing to worry about and they won't get you into anymore trouble
I understand what you where going through, I was doing the same stuff you where doing, getting in the same trouble you where at that age. I changed my life around for two years then got in even more trouble than ever, I regret getting in trouble again, it was the stupidest thing I ever did. Now I'm doing so much better then I was, all I got to say to those who are getting in trouble now, change while you still can before you end up in foster care or worse prison, because if you don't you'll live with it on your record for the rest of your life and it won't be easy.
I had the same problem I used to alway steal stuff left and right I always had that criminal mindset that if I didn't get caught it was okay too do even though I did eventually get caught the last theft charge I got changed my outlook on it I got a second degree felony for theft and that's when it really hit me from that point one I pay for my shit I can't afford to rack up more charges and I'm done getting in trouble the point is not that you steal and get away with it the point is you reconize how it affect the community your family and future and let the bad habit go.
I totally agree with Shannon. He was very right.
Life is about learning, not about the way we learn. Life gets hard and a lot of people give in and give up, which giving in May be okay, but giving up isn't. Once you make the choice to do something your mind is set on it, so before giving in is a choice, giving up is an incorrect mindset... I don't know how to say it completely, but I guess I did the best explaining I can. Yep.
Raquel,
I think that it's awesome that you left behind your best friend because of her bad influence on you. This takes a lot of courage. But sometimes it's for the best.
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