Those four dreaded words.

When I think about defying moments there is one event imparticular that comes to my mind. I haven't had anything huge happen in my life and this one isn't very exciting but it was the day that I heard those four dreaded words... "you are under arrest." I started off just like a regular day, me and my good friend were sitting in the commons patiently waiting for basketball practice to begin. We had a good hour before we began our daily warm up routine and we sat there trying to figure out something to do.

As we sat on the bench more commonly known as the poly bench we caught a glimpse of the star football player shuffling his way toward us. He came up to my friend and and simply said "hey teach me I want to learn." I wasn't really sure what he was talking about and then they turned to me and asked of I wanted a cookie, i wasn't hungry but I agreed to tag a long and we headed to the vending machines. As I stood next to my friend I looked down and suddenly realized her arm was up the machine and she was grabbing a granny b cookie from the bottom shelf in the machine. As soon as I realized what was really going on I turned only to hear those four dreaded words, "you are under arrest."

The cop standing at the top of the stairs informed us that we were under arrest for theft. As the three of us slowly made our way up that long flight of stairs thoughts started running through my head. I'm not going to college, I'm going to be kicked off the team, my parents are going to be furious...my life is over. As he led me and my friend by our shoulders to the office and set us down as far away as he could from each other. As I sat in that chair these things ran through my mind over and over again. We sat there for about an hour as the administration debated on what to do with us.

This was the first time I have ever been in trouble. Growing up I was very shy and hated getting in trouble therefore I never talked when I wasn't supposed to and I made sure to always do what i was told. So as i sat here a freshmen in high school thinking my life would soon be over I remember being so upset when they let "our star football player" out with nothing but ten minutes of his time spent in the office when it was him who was wanting to do it.

The assistant principle came out very disappointed with two papers dangling from his fingers, I soon found out that he was bringing me a police report. I filled it out re living the moment on paper. And then I was called in to talk to the officer, i never realized until that moment that we had cameras in our school...yup they caught us on tape, that's when I really broke down. He told me to call my parents and I was so afraid that they would be incredibly disappointed because I knew better.

My parents showed up shortly and we talked for a long time to the principle trying to figure out what to do. Luckily enough for me I got off with nothing and my parents were not disappointed they were very understandable. I apologized to my team, me being the team captain I felt like I had let them down and I was very happy that I was still apart of the team, there was a lot of conditioning involved but it was worth it.

This experience was not a huge thing but it really kinda changed my out look on life, I realized at a good age how to better deal with things and this has really defied my life. The principle could never look at me and my friend the same he always kept his eye on the two of us throughout our three following years of high school. At the time it seemed like to worst day ever but we laugh about it now. And I learned a lot from those four dreaded words even when you think its the worst day of our life if you take it the right way it can turn out to be nothing but a hilarious memory.