Travis Allen 523 words
9100 St. Charles Rock Road
St. Louis, MO 63114
(314) 493-6100 allent517@ritenourschools.org There seems to be a problem by Travis Allen It 's 4:00 am, my bed feels something like a cloud but less wet, laying facing the ceiling wondering if I will ever serve as a greater purpose other than grow up, get a job, get married, have a nice family, then die, you know the usual, none the less it still scares me knowing that one day I will die and no one will remember me or that I ever existed. Feelings of sadness soon swarm my mind until the alarm clock suddenly went off at 4:30 am which could only mean one thing;
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I started to pick up my speed gradually,
hoping that the car wouldn 't either but luck
sure wasn 't on my side that morning, the car
shifted speeds as I did, which at this point I 'm
pretty sure we both knew that we were on to
each other so I cut to the chase and book it!
Lighting seemed like a turtle compared to me,
I ran so fast that I didn 't realize I was already
at the front steps of my school in 6 seconds.
Thoughts of fear and excitement paraded
through my body as I sat Twitching to tell
somebody about what I had just experienced
but then I remembered that the only friend I
really have at school is a boy named Joe and
our friendship doesn 't seem to extend outside
of lunch boundaries but I could wait a few
more hours to tell him about this unbelievable
news.
Three hours go by and it 's time for lunch, as
I 'm as I 'm walking out of my English 11
language arts class to lunch I noticed that
everyone was looking my way in didn 't break
EYE contact til they were behind me, soon I
reached lunch and I sat to my regular lunch
table and waited for Joe to come but he
never came, soon soon as I figured he was
not going to come I began to dig into my
lunchbox picking at my