a christmas like no other

By Damien Torres

Christmas, what a time. Christmas is a holiday to celebrate with all your loved ones and give gifts to them to show your appreciation to them but the thing that made my Christmas amazing is that I found out that I can still graduate.

My story well funny enough won’t even start in Christmas it’ll start in November near around my birthday (which is the 13th) my mom had just talked to me about my grades and how I needed to get them up. Which is usually how most conversations with her go because I know she worries about me.

But the thought of failing and having to repeat goes through my head a lot. I don’t wanna do that. I know some students have to repeat and I don’t mean any disrespect. I just don’t want to be in high school for another year. I’m ready to get out of here and graduate and move on.

Unfortunately something very bad had come to my house and it felt like 500 tons had been put right on my back. I had gotten it in the mail and it was a notice saying how I might not graduate. I got the news while I was in the car ready to go somewhere and I broke down in tears crying because I thought that was the end, I thought I had let everyone down. I wanted to graduate but seeing how that notice showed up to my house I thought it was over.

A month had gone by (December now) still thinking that my school year was over. I didn’t feel like eating or talking to anyone because every time someone would bring up the conversation of school and everytime I would feel like breaking down. That would all change one day.

One day I got a call from my counselor and she told me that I can still graduate if I pull my grades up in one of my classes then for the other class they would let me get a second chance by raising my grade if I can pass the class in the next semester. That phone call motivated me to keep going and going until I can’t no more and even then you keep going. I was taught to never give up and I will not give up.

When I do graduate I wanna move on to community college and succeed in life. My goal is to play for a professional team. It doesn't matter the sport as long as it’s a professional team. That's how my story ends with never giving up.