Overcoming Obstacles-Personal Narrative

I had started to be that girl who sat at lunch by herself, or even went into a teacher's classroom just to get away from all the hate. It all started when I lost my father. It put me in a deep depression. I started to wear baggy clothes and not talk to any of my friends. They still tried to talk to me but all I did was block them out. My dad was my idol. I wanted to be him. Every Sunday after church we would go to the basketball court for over two hours just working on my lay-ups and free throws. He said when I was fourteen we would start on three pointers for high school basketball. He never made it. After he passed I quit basketball whenever I see a game on TV it brings back the good memories i’ll never get to have again. Channel 34 was ESPN,
Slowly inching towards it, my breath got caught in my throat. The splotch was becoming clearer until about twenty-five yards away. When my gaze met its cold, dark eyes. I knew it was a grizzly bear I was staring at. It was the first time the bear had seen me since I saw it. Instantly I stood there paralyzed with confused terror. Silently standing there I could feel the fog closing in on me. I had no idea what to do,but stand there. I was daunted by the bear’s exceedingly long, sharp claws. The bear was creeping towards me very slowly which worried me. When the bear was ten feet away it felt like my heart was going to burst out of my chest. I felt the goosebumps start in my toes and go all the way to my neck. The bear was about five feet away when I could feel its breath on my open skin. As an eleven year old girl I thought my life was over. A few seconds later I heard a swish in the air and the bear fell to the ground. I looked around and saw a boy a little older than me with a bow and arrow in his
He had shot the bear in the back, a clean shot. When I turned to thank the boy he was gone. Just like that he was gone. He just vanished. I pondered where he could have gone. Someone who didn’t even know me stabbed another being for me, but someone who knows me can stab me right in the back with words. I was determined to find this boy. He was my now only friend. I didn’t even know his name and I trusted him with my life. I meticulously searched the surrounding woods for him or any other sign of life, but came up with nothing. I decided it was time to go home. When I got home my parents were sitting at the table. Around the corner I found the boy and two people who looked like what might be his parents. It turned out they were family friends my parents had never told me about. In the woods the boy didn’t even know about our family’s past. I haven’t seen him since, but when I do I will never forget what he did and how he lifted me out of a down time in my