Personal Narrative: No Place On Wood Chips

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I was sitting on the wood chips. I keep quiet so nobody has opinions about me, but that’s unavoidable because of people like Celia and Jason. They’re morons, too, because they think their so-called ‘relationship’ matters in the fourth grade. As a matter of fact, I used to think Jason was a nice guy before he started hanging with that one-sided dolt. The whistle is blown and kids tread off the playground and into the cold school. That’s when I noticed that Jason had a box in his left hand. I wanted to know what it was, so I quietly followed him through the hallways of the building while staring intently at the little container he tightly grasped. When we reached the entrance to the cafeteria, Celia was leaning against the wall. “Who's the …show more content…

Crack! A flame raged on the tip of the match, and Jason shoved the box into the pocket of his sweatpants. He handed me the lit match, and I immediately dropped it onto the rough carpet below. “Wait!” I yelled as Jason ran from the fire spreading on the floor. Jason went back to class, but Celia went and hid in a Janitor’s closet in the wall. Beep! Beep! Beep! I started to smell thick smoke as the ear-piercing alarm screamed across the whole school. Revenge is what I had an idea for(14). But I had to do it quickly, as my surroundings became very warm and dark(13). I went to the closet Celia was in and flipped the lock. “Ugh-Did you just lock me in here?(15)” It was hard to tell what she was saying over the fire alarm. “Let me out you loser!” I was planning to let her out, but there wasn’t enough time. I was blinded by fumes, dizzy, sweating, and choking like I swallowed a taco shell. I fell to the ground and began to lose consciousness. I felt as if I was being picked up? A firefighter! The man carried me out of the burning school and I was then able to see his light-brown coat with large yellow stripes. It was the first time I was glad to hear a surrounding of big, wailing trucks. As they loaded me into the ambulance on a stretcher, Jason approached

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