Semester One Essay (this i believe)

Jaime Sandoval

Ms.Devaney J

Period 3

AP English Language and Composition

Spending time

                I believe that you should spend more time with the ones you love, because you never know when God is going to call them home. I had this friend that I met in 6^th grade when I was attending Paul Revere Middle School. He was a real good friend to the point he was my best friend. He went to school with me all three years of middle school; we would play soccer together with other friends. We would also hang out at our apartment complex that we lived in; we would go to parties and overall just spend time together and with friends.

                After middle school we went our separate ways. He moved out from the apartment complex and so did I. We started to see less and less of each other, we lost contact with each other, we stopped hanging out and we rarely ever talked. He became a mystery and I found that I knew less of him as time went on, people change over time and when you don’t change with them, the changes seem all the more drastic.

On his birthday my friends and I decided to make him a surprise party at his house. We did, and we did a BBQ and had music, games and other fun activities like soccer. After the party everybody was saying goodbye to each other but my friend was outside taking something out of his car. Then all of a sudden, we heard gun shots outside, everyone ducked down because buckets hit the house windows. The shattering of the windows was almost as loud as the screech of an accelerating car.

                We ran outside and I just saw my friend just laying there on the street besides his car with blood staining his shirt. Blood and tears soaked his shirt and his mom held him and cried, I didn’t know exactly what was going on, he was standing and laughing there one instant and in the next he was on the ground struggling to breath, struggling to live.  We called the ambiances but they got there too late, before the ambulances arrived I saw my friend close his eyes and before I realized it, he was gone.

                I miss my friend; he was like a brother to me. I wish we hadn’t gone our separate ways and maybe if we would have stayed in touch, his death would never have happened. I guess sometimes you don’t know when it is someone’s time to go which is why you should spent more time with people when you still have them around.