The whole group began to walk down the one street in the neighbor hood. A guy that Josh, one of our friends, knew drove by and we all stopped to talk to him. We stood around his Chevrolet s-10 truck listening to they stereo system he had for a few minutes. The guy left and drove up to the Petrol gas station by the neighborhood to get gas. We decided that we would all walk up there as well.
We began walking and took a short cut through someone’s property, then through the woods. After about a ten minute walk we were finally at the store. A few of our friends went inside to get a soda; while the rest of us just stood outside by the woods sitting on a bench. My cousin had carried a football with him so we began throwing the ball around. Then, my cousin and the rest of the guys began to act dangerous. They would run out into the road and run back right before cars got there. They also were throwing the football in the street. Because I am more reserved person, I was just standing off to the side.
After doing that for a few minutes, they went back into the woods and told me to follow. We went and hid behind the trees. A blue Ford Mustang pulled up and one of the two guys inside the car went in the gas station. Josh and my cousin Wayne began yelling crude remarks at the car. After a few minutes of yelling, the guy from the mustang that had gone in the store came out and walked to his car. He talked with the passenger for a moment while my cousin and josh continued yelling. The got out of the car and we took off running. When we began to run, we thought that we heard them cock a gun or maybe even fire it.
As we ran we got split up, every man for themselves. I ran back through the woods towards the yard that we had trespassed on earlier as a short cut. Then, I ran down the street. I stopped in a yard at the corner of the intersection when I seen my cousin. He began to tell me that when he was running through the woods he was running through branches, and stumbling. I asked him where the other three of our friends were; he said that he did not know they had been split up as well. All of a sudden we heard one of our friends voices, as he finally made it through the woods. And then finally the other two showed up as well.
After talking for a minute, we walked back down to josh’s house. Instead of using the neighborhood road, we walked down the main street that it connected to. As we were walking, we thought that we seen the Mustang driving by. We all dove for the ground and ditch, as the car passed. When we got up we jogged back to josh’s house. After being there for a few minutes the guy in the s-10 truck pulled up and told us that when he got out of the gas station the guys chased him down the neighborhood road, thinking that he had been with us.
After standing around for awhile, everyone went home. My cousin and I walked home and didn’t really mention what happened much. I thought to myself that we were lucky, we could have been injured by the trees as we ran through the woods in the dark, or even the guys with the guns.
I wanted to be with my cousin that night so I went against my better judgment and went with them up to the gas station knowing that they were trouble-makers. Sometimes when children and teenagers want to fit in they will associate with the wrong crowd, even with the proper guidance from their parents.
