Wrestling Match Narrative

I don’t remember the exact date, but it was during my freshman year, after a wrestling match against Kentwood high school. We were the two best wrestling teams in our division. So, knowing how big this match was, the whole wrestling advertised and promoted it all week. Our efforts paid off because that following Friday the stands were packed. Students from both schools came to support, but one side was going to leave disappointed. Towards the end of the night we were down 7 points, there were two matches left. Me and my senior friend A.C. I started my match against a junior or senior, I don’t recall his grade. Anyways, the match went all three rounds, with a score of 6 to 6 going into an overtime period. Midway into overtime, I caught him in my favorite move, the head and arm, and pinned with 20 seconds left in the match. That pin puts us now down by 1. A.c, was the last match, with little effort he pinned his guy in the first round in under 20 seconds. We had won by 5 points and everyone felt good. I could hear the congratulations and cheering from our fans while he lined up to shake their hands. After we rolled up the mats and putting away the

I told him about the text and how I didn’t know what to do and I didn’t feel that it was right. Seeming like he didn’t listen to a word I said, he instantly said “Dude! You gotta do this”. At the end of the day, I got a text from A.C and a few other teammates telling me how to handle the situation and how Ben told them. Basically, everyone was telling me to do it, but I wasn’t sure. All week the team hyped me up and was giving me pointers, knowing it would be my first. One of my teammates actually brought me a condom and told me to use it responsibly, (looking back, it’s kind of funny because now he is 20 with three kids). But, the approval and hype from the older kids got to my head. I would be a wimp or a coward to back out now, but I still didn’t know if this was