Reflection Paper (third draft)

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Tara Link

English 1010

Haley Stokes

24 January

Close Call (3rd draft)

It was in the middle of winter on a Friday night when my friends Kalie, Erin, Ashley, and I decided to have a sleepover at Haley’s house. Having a sleepover is the best way to cause lots of trouble, which we were good at. We all decided that we wanted to go toilet papering that night. Haley’s three little brothers Dane, Dillian, and Brennon offered to pay for the toilet paper if we just let them come with us. We thought this was a good idea so they came along.

The next thing to do was decide who we wanted to toilet paper. We were all sitting around laughing and planning who our victims would be. We finally decided on three people that we all wanted to do. The first was another friend of ours who we all liked to pick on a ton. The second was a boy that my friend Haley thought was cute. The third person we decided to toilet paper lived just down the street from Haley.

We decided on the third persons house, because it was huge and had lots of tree’s and bushes. Sadly enough, they were always getting toilet papered, and the last group of kids that tried to toilet paper them got caught. So it would be kind of a challenge for us to accomplish the job with out getting caught. But we were all hyped up, excited, and full of adrenaline so we took the challenge.

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We all went to the basement and pretended to be asleep so that we could sneak out. Sneaking out was a thrill in it self, the butterflies I get in my stomach before I do something exciting, and scary is the best feeling. The second we were out of the house the chill of the air caught my breath, and looking around you could see all the white fog coming from our mouths. The smell was fresh and crisp, we were pumped and ready to go. We went and did the first and second house and we did a great job. It looked like it had snowed on their entire yard and house. We destroyed their houses and still had a lot of toilet paper left. Just one more house to go before heading back for home. The house that would be the most exciting, the most challenging, and definitely the most thrilling.

Finally we were on our third and final house. I couldn’t wait to get started. I love the feel of throwing the toilet paper up in the air over a tree, and hearing the light rustle as it falls back to the ground. We were just about out of toilet paper, because it was all over their trees and everything else in their yard, when a car pulled up and shined their lights on us and honked a few times. My stomach just about jumped up my throat, as my heart started to race. We just thought that they were trying to scare us so we all just hid quickly. My friend haley rolled under a car, while I jumped behind a bush. My friend Erin on the other hand just stood there shaking saying “what do I do? what do I do?”. She eventually hid behind the a bush by me. After about five minutes had passed the car was still there. We started to get scared and we knew we had to get out of there. We were all signaling and whispering to each other and we finally decided to go through backyards and make our way back to Haley’s house. We all finally got back and we were

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all so happy and excited because we had actually gotten away, we had done it. Then our hearts sank when we realized we had locked ourselves out when we snuck out earlier.

We didn’t know what we were going to do but we were all grateful that we got away from that car. We were all sitting in the backyard thinking of ways to get inside without getting caught

when the car drove by and saw us. The car then turned around and shined their lights on us again. We all hid quickly again. We didn’t know what to do but we didn’t like that car. We started to make snowballs and we threw them at the car. While we were throwing snowballs we could hear sirens. They had called the cops on us. At that point I’m pretty sure all my friends could hear my heart beat quicken. Right then we could see the red and blue lights and thats when we really freaked out. We were locked out and we didn’t know what to do.

We finally decided at the last moment to try to stuff Haley’s little brother through the little doggy door that they had. We had to all push on his feet as hard as we could and he finally slid through. We got inside just before the police pulled up. We were watching from the windows to find out what was going on. The police were wandering all around the house with their flashlights looking for us, and yet I wasn’t scared anymore, I was excited, and relieved. After almost ten minutes of searching they rang the door bell. We all ran down to the basement and pretended to be asleep immediately. Haley’s mother woke up to the doorbell and answered the door.

The police officer had found some of the toilet paper that we had left behind and asked her “Is this your brand Ma’am.” Once she was out of shock she answered him “I don’t think so.

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Why?” He then asked if we were all sleeping over and she told him we were. Then she came down stairs to check on us and see if we were asleep. She told the officers that we were all asleep. As soon as the cops left we all came up laughing. Her mom found out later that morning that it was us but to our surprise she wasn’t angry.

My friends and I used to always get into trouble but we were just kids trying to have some fun. Our friendship grew stronger and we gained more trust between each other during our close calls. We did everything together and we will always be close friends because of all of the times we have had together.