Jumped

Jeffrey Gruber
Language Arts Period 2
September 29, 2010
Essay
Jumped

What, where am I? Who are you? Why am I here? There was an answer, but I wasn’t so sure what the exact answer was. I heard something like you got jumped. Now all I could hear was beeping and people yelling at each other. Then it was gone.
12 Hours before- I was walking around New York City. I was out to find a grocery store with a good selection of milk so I could have my cereal. My family and I had just moved from Connecticut into an apartment building because my dad had gotten a new job here in the city. It was a about 4:00 pm on Saturday afternoon. It was pretty chilly since it was December 20th and there were a lot of tourist in the city since the tree was up. Also it is close to Christmas. I was getting really cold so I started to gallop like a horse down 22nd street toward the grocery store ACME. This wasn’t like the biggest store in the U.S, but it did the job for the local area. I went in and went to the refrigerated section to grab the milk then leave, but when I went to pay the milk pounced off the counter but I caught it before it hit the ground. I was a cat catching its prey.
After getting the milk I walked out of the store and saw these two suspicious and stupid looking older teenagers standing there talking to each other while staring at me. So I started to walk and not think about them. I walked toward 23rd street which ends up connecting with 25th street where my apartment is located. I saw the 2 boys move so I started to book down 23rd street when I stopped. I didn’t stop myself it was the boys. I asked, “What do you want?” “I don’t have anything, just leave me alone” I said. “We just wanted to play with you a little bit.” POW!! I felt a rush of pain go to my face.” Slicc, that was the last thing I felt was the knife that went into both of my legs. It hurt so much that it was hell.
What, where am I? Who are you? Why am I here? There was an answer but I didn’t hear it very clearly, but what I did hear is that I got jumped. After I heard that there was a bunch of beeping and yelling. Then 30 seconds later it was gone.
I woke up to bright lights. I was very dizzy and my legs were killing me. The room was filled with my whole family which would be my Mom, Dad and my sister Sarah. They were all crowded around me. After about 4 to 5 more hours of sleep I got up and went home. My mom told me, “Next time you go with dad understand”. “Yes mom” I said.