A few years ago, I made my varsity softball team in high school. After almost every win, the team would celebrate by drinking at someone
I was really good friends with the quarterback of my high school, Derek. We had known each other forever, but never really hung out until we got to be in 9th grade. One night, right after a big win, another classmate of mine threw a party to celebrate because his parents weren
I was a sophomore in high school and it was a Friday a couple weeks before graduation. I remember passing a senior on our field hockey team on my way to the bus that afternoon. Monday morning came and all of us heard that this senior
A good friend of mine, Liza, is always up for some fun. I don
On my friend Will
Just a few days ago, a girl I know had one of the worst nights of her life. Stephanie was attending a hotel party in celebration of July 4th. She had drunk many times before, and she thought tonight would be no different, but she was wrong. She was enjoying herself at the party, and always had a drink in her hand. She left the party really drunk and walked back to campus with two other people that she knew. As soon as she reached the front door of her dorm, she blacked out. She was walking behind the other girls, and they, also drunk, didn
My friend Maddie and I knew about a party at Jen
On a summer Friday afternoon, my friend Nick called me up and told me that he had somehow gotten ahold of a bottle of liquor. Asking if I wanted to drink, he told me that his parents were home all weekend and we couldn
There is a big tradition among students that go to my high school. When a lower classman makes a varsity sports team, the upper classmen initiate the new players in a variety of ways. I
I went to high school with a girl who started drinking at the very young age 14. She hung out with an older crowd, and many other students thought that she was really cool and exciting. Everyone wanted to hang out with her, and she was invited to every party. One Saturday night at a bonfire party she got really drunk and got too close to the bonfire. Her clothes caught fire and she was engulfed by flames. I have never heard screaming like that in all my life. Most people at the party froze in shock and horror, thankfully somebody at the party was able to react and grabbed a blanket out of the trunk of a car (let’s not even start on how scary it is that some of us were actually intending to drive after drinking) and put out the flames but not before she had suffered third degree burns on most of her body. She didn
I
A concert setting can be one of two things, a hassle or a great time. In the middle of sophomore year, a local radio station held one of the biggest shows of the year with tons of bands that never come into town. The day long festival was full of people getting drunk everywhere. My friends and I had gotten someone to get a bracelet for us so that we could buy beer easier and without being carded. Since it was a stadium show and there were so many people around we figured no one would even try to bother us about being underage and having drinks. How wrong we were. In between two of the bands playing, we all started to walk to the upper deck to get some shade. On the way a security guard stopped us and asked for our IDs. The first thing we did was lie to him saying that we gave them to a sober friend so we wouldn
I was away for a long weekend in February 2006 when a friend of mine named Mike decided to throw the biggest party he could at his town house. Many other friends and classmates attended as well as a lot of alcohol. As the night went on, people came and went as they pleased, but many decided to either stay the night or walk home. However, Jake decided that he would rather drive than stay, opting to sleep in his own bed for the evening. What happened next would change Jake
A few friends and I decided to have a few drinks after a long week of classes around the last week of school my freshman year. Because his parents weren’t home, we all went back to *Eric’s basement to start the weekend off right. But that was the complete opposite of what happened. We had come straight from school at around 2:15 and by 4 o’clock we were all pretty messed up. Eric told us his parents never got home before 5 but around 4:15 we heard a door shut upstairs. It was almost immediately after when we heard the basement door open and heard Eric’s dad’s footsteps walking down the stairs. We freaked out and hid any traces of alcohol wherever we could before his dad came down. By the time he did, we were sitting silently watching TV. After a minute or so of talking to Eric’s dad, you could feel that he knew something was up. He asked Eric to stand up and if he could smell his breath. With one huff, we were busted. Eric’s dad asked for what we had, and after giving it up we all had to call our parents and go home.
I got one of the WORST punishments of my life, all for a few drinks after school. And I can really say that 2 hours of drinking was not worth the multiple hours I had to do chores for my parents, not go out on the weekends, and hear one of the longest lectures of my life.
*Names have been changed to protect identities. No real names will ever be used in this blog.
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