Personal Narrative Essay

Abandoned
Everything for a year had been leading up to this point and here I was in the middle of the happiest place on earth in tears because my friends had abandoned me in the middle of Disney on the senior trip. The class of 2015 had been working all year selling food at lunch and sports events and carrying out fundraisers. The first time I got an inkling that my friends would not be true friends was when we were planning the trip, we were choosing rooms for the trip and I asked my best friend, “Hey, we could room with each other on the trip!” To which she replied “Oh I’m staying with someone else and we can’t have 5 people in a 4 person room.”. When I asked where she thought I could stay she said “Well I don’t know.” I was torn, I had just been betrayed by my best friend, I had been treated like this before, but I just put up with it and somehow I had a feeling it would not be the last. Instead of being in a room with my best friend, I was assigned a room with three girls I did not know well. In the long run being in that room was one of the highlights of the trip for me. The next event that told me I needed to find true friends happened at the airport. We were flying Southwest, meaning that when we got on the plane, we could choose our own seats. I prearranged for my friends and I to all sit together so we could talk on the plane by asking them “Can we sit next to each other on the plane?” my friend replied “Well we can sit near each other, but I am sitting with them (referring to my 3 other friends who were all guys).” I thought to myself “OK, we will sit all together and it will be fine!” when we got on the plane everything seemed fine, we were

That evening was also rather uneventful, however, it was not as much fun as it would have been had my friends been genuine friends, we just did