Personal Narrative: My First Basketball Game

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All I remember is the buzzer ringing, and the crowd cheering. We were just about to win our basketball game. It was the championship game. All I had to do was make that 3, and we would take the win. I was standing on the line, about to shoot. There were 2.4 seconds left until the end of the game. Suddenly, the ball left my hands, soaring through the air. Then everything blacked out. I couldn’t see a thing. I slightly remember falling and hearing a thud, but nothing else. I wake up to all kinds of beeping hospital machines. I’m hooked up to cords, and I can barely move. I squint my eyes a little bit. “Cass, Cass! Can you hear me? Cass! Cass! It’s me, mom.” I open my eyes all the way. I see someone hovering over me. Although I am clueless …show more content…

I didn't have the power to do it so I let her stay. Although, I'm not sure how I would even do it. Anyway, I layed on my bed and just thought about my life. It was the most complicated thing in the world. I had no idea how I would become who I used to be. I didn't know how people would react to me when I go to school. School. What on Earth would happen there? Would I have to start my schooling all over again? Would I be a freshman or a kindergartener? Would I be home schooled? I mean, I don't think I would go all the way back to kindergarten. I know everything, I just can't show that I know. I can't write it, I can't say it, I can only think it. I know how to solve an algebraic expression, I know how to pass a science exam, I just couldn't show that. All eyes are on me. “You can do this!” I thought. It was just a simple free throw, I have made hundreds of these before. For some reason, it wasn’t just a free throw though. I looked at the score, I know why. The score is forty-six to forty-seven. We are down by one. I looked at the jerseys of the people we are playing. They are green and white, I recognize these, but I can’t put my finger on who they are. Then a yell comes from the crowd. It was a guy, but the question was who was the

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