Would I have got expelled from elementary, because of this incident if I got caught? Probably. Was it worth it? For me, yes. For my friend, Jared, no. For me I got a story, a nice one as well, for him, well, he got expelled.

Flashback to when I was in grade 5, ten years of age and incredibly rowdy. It was a burning hot day when we did what we did. Most people hid in the shade of the school, while others played on either the open field or the playground. I was one of those people who played in the sun on the field. With my best friend, at the time, Jared, we threw the football back and forth. When the bell rang to call student into the school, Jared threw me the football towards me. I caught it and began to run towards him; doing a spin move to get passed him. As soon as I faced him, I saw that he pulled out a pellet gun out of his blue jeans. he shot a pellet at me; I’m so glad he had terrible aim.

We entered the school and finished our morning classes. After our classes, we met up outside with a bunch of juice boxes and cans. Making sure no one could see us shoot a pellet gun we ducked out into the alley near by. We set up the cans and juices boxes on the ground and on an a fence ledge. My accuracy was way better than Jared’s. He would knock down 7 out of 10 targets and I would hit 9 out of 10 targets. After going through a couple of rounds of practice, the bell rang to call everyone in for afternoon classes. We left our shooting grounds and headed back towards the school. On the way back I bragged about how I was so much better than Jared, even though I barely beat him in target practice. We entered the school and the hallways were empty.

Not a person in sight, except for the principal. Nobody liked her; we hated her. To us she was the meanest and most annoying person in the world. So, after hearing Jared deny that I was better than him, an idea popped up in my mind. I told him that if he could hit her from here, I would admit that he was way better than me at shooting. He took up my offer by nodding his head and simultaneously pulling out the pellet gun. Confidently he took aim and fired the gun. The pellet that flew from the gun landed with impact on the principal’s lower back. Immediately she turned around and screamed at us telling us to come towards where she was. Naturally two rowdy kids like us were used to trouble and knew what to do. Run as far as we could, as fast as we could. When we finally stopped in a safe place out of trouble, we made a promise not to rat each other out if one of us got caught. Luckily, I wasn’t very popular. So, when people snitched on us they didn’t know my name, but they knew Jared’s. They would probably say that it was Jared and some brown kid that did it. A lot of people told on us, because if they didn’t they were assumed to have done it. At the end Jared got called down to the office and got expelled. Thankfully, he kept his promise to me or else I would have got expelled as well.

He got expelled, while I got a story.

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