Horseplay Turns Real

By: Andrew H.

I still remember the awful day as if it were yesterday. I remember the tears, I remember the anger, and I remember the fear. I remember almost every single detail about the nightmare that turned into a reality.  I will probably always remember that day as the absolute worst day of my life.

When I was 10, back when I lived in Fall River MA, I was in the third grade and the day started out like any other. I had to go to school like always and I was expecting it to be an average day. Little did I know I couldn’t have been more wrong.

In class we had a new student. My teacher had to step out of the room to talk to someone and somehow one of my friends and the new student started arguing. When the teacher came back into the room she ended it, but my friend told me he wanted to fight the kid.

After school my friend and I were walking home and the new student was following in our direction, which made my friend start to get angry because he thought that the kid was purposely following us to continue the argument. They started arguing, and sure enough, the arguing actually escalated to them physically fighting. I had never really seen two kids fight before so I didn’t know what to do, so I just watched, and then some man came over and broke it up. My friend went home and I continued to walk home, but yet the new kid was still going the same way as I was and sure enough it turns out he lived right across from me. So as I was just relaxing in my house alone, waiting for my mom to come home from work at around 6:30 like always I heard a knock at my door.

I answered the door and it was the kid with his mom. I was speechless and I couldn’t even think straight because the mom was just shouting at me saying “You’re the one who beat up my son!? I’m going to call the police right now!” I started crying because I was so scared that the police would take me away to juvenile hall. I tried explaining to her that I wasn’t involved in hurting her son, but she just continued yelling and eventually walked off. I was waiting for what seemed like an eternity. I had so many different thoughts in my mind and I was still very anxious.

I was scared of police coming to my house, and of being was all alone with nobody to talk to. I wanted my mom but since she was working, the person I needed most couldn’t be there.. I started to think that maybe the woman didn’t really call the Police maybe she just wanted to scare me. But of course, as soon as I started to get calm and relaxed, there was a knock at my door and it was two policemen.

They started asking me about everything that happened and I finally started feeling like things would be okay. I asked one of the officers if I would have to go to juvenile hall and I felt almost completely better when he said “no”. Then the policemen drove me to my grandmother’s house and I waited for my mom to pick me up. When my mom came the police told her she couldn’t work that long anymore due to my being too young to be alone until 6:30. My mom took me home, and talked to the new kid’s mother. Everything was cleared up, and the kid told his mom that it was only him and my friend fighting and that I wasn’t involved. From that point on, I never had any more problems with that kid, and everything ended up being okay.

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