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The Fight

September 4, 2015
By Stevie17 BRONZE, Indianapolis, Indiana
Stevie17 BRONZE, Indianapolis, Indiana
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Background
My name is Robert Smith, I am 22 years old and I live in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I am a mixed with African American and Caucasian. I graduated top of my class from Fort Wayne High School. Then I graduated from Princeton University I was also first in my class when I graduated from Princeton University. A week after I got back from Princeton I was in my old neighborhood.  I would never think this would happen to me, but it did hear is how it went down.


Scene 1
I was walking down a dark alleyway. I heard footsteps behind me sound like they were close like 4 steps behind me. I could hear my heart beat louder and louder, I thought my heart was gone explode or jump right out my chest.  I felt a lot of bad attentions behind me. I abruptly stopped and I did not hear his footsteps no more. So I turned around but nobody was standing there or was even visible it was straight darkness and a little light you can see from the streetlight near the road. I turned back around and there was a man standing right in front of me. He looked like he was in his mid 30’s. He was a Caucasian male. I ran cause it was dark and only bad people are out in the night. I tried to run but he grabbed me and covered my mouth and said if I try to make a noise he would kill me. So I tried running again he stabbed me in my upper left side of my back close to the shoulder blade. He pushed me and I tried to get up but my left side was in pain so it was hard for me to get up.

Scene 2
He stabbed me in my lower left side of my back. He rolled me over to finish me off but I kicked him and with the adrenaline running through my body I got up I tried to run but I lost a lot of blood so I was dizzy and he caught me but I was close by the streetlight so if anyone was to drive by they can see me but I started thinking if I take off the mask and some drove by the can see his face so my first objective was to take the mask off. So he tackled me and he was about to slice my throat. I managed to get the knife out of his hands and got it away from him. We was wrestling and throwing punches. I manage to get the mask off of him to see his face. When I took the mask off a woman in a tan Ford Focus was driving home.


Scene 3
She seen she and us struggling stop and parked her car and she yelled out” Is everything ok” so I yelled out. “ Help he is trying to kill me”. She came running and he whispered in my ear. “ I will finish you off later punk.” He ran off so I’m lying there looking at the stars my vision was getting blurry and everything around me that was moving started to move slower and slower like it was in slow motion. She was checking me for ID she found it and was saying. “Robert stay with me the ambulance is on their you is not gone die like this.” She said her name is Sarah Stewart and she was also 22. She was telling me her life story how she graduated and was barely accepted in to college. She went to Indiana State University. She went there because they wanted her for basketball she thought that was her ticket out of Indiana. But she torn her ACL and lost focus on playing the game and lost the love for it.  The ambulance came and I asked if she can ride with me she agreed on going with me to the hospital.

Scene 4
I would gain my consciousness while I was in the ambulance and Sarah said. “ I’m right here Robert.”  She seen me try to grab for her hand and she grabbed my and to calm me down. Then I past back out and I woke up in a hospital bed and Sarah was right there next to me. She said. “Hey how do you feel?" I smiled and grabbed her hand and said. “ Better now you’re here.” Sarah smiled and said, “ Are you flirting with me?” I shook my head. We both started laughing then I winced in pain. She said,” Want me to get the doctor?”  I shook my head no. My parents walked and my mom seen me and started crying and said,” My baby are you okay.” Looked at Sarah and said “Who are you?” Sarah said. “I saved his life and might be his new girlfriend.”  So they talked and I got stiches and pills to keep the pain down. I stayed at Sarah’s house cause the police was trying to catch the person who attacked me. They got him and told me his name was Dan Johnson and he was known for the crime he committed and this will be his third strike so he is gone to prison for a long time. I felt relieved so I went back to Sarah’s house and told her she was happy. I also popped the questioned to her and she said yes.


 


The author's comments:

I am from Indianapolis,Indiana 

I am a senior at Shortridge IB High School


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