“Don’t forget to put up the flyers I gave you guys! Benton Harbor is such a small city that I basically knew everyone, and I wanted everybody to help me celebrate for my open house and after-party. Not only were my schoolmates invited to it, but the whole community was also. Everyone knew my open house and after party were going to be the biggest event of the year. Mine wasn’t an ordinary open house because we were having an after party too. We had catered food, live hip hop performances, and lastly my boyfriend even rapped a song about me. My mom is also an outstanding chef so I knew she would make all my favorites. I’m so excited and I just knew everything would be a success.
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The look on my parents faces as they began to shut everything down was so embarrassing. The party had just started; cars were pulling in after one another. She really had to get rid of all of that food because my behavior. My cousin, boyfriend, and my niece Brandi came running outside to see what was wrong with me. I couldn’t even barely talk, that’s how hurt I was. They told me I needed to go apologize to them and everyone else was just so disappointed in me. I can’t believe I treated my parents like that after all the hard work and how well they treated …show more content…
As the days went by, I could tell they had forgiven me, but I had a deep feeling in the back of my mind, that wouldn’t take my feelings away. Still to this day it hits me off guard. Imagine having the same feeling almost a year later? I noticed this was something that I learned from, and it even has such a huge impact on my life. I still have family and friends who still don’t forgive me. This has to be the worst experience to mess up my reputation. Now, while I’m in college, I called to share my feelings with her again about the situation. My mom said, “Kesha you know we forgive you, you don’t have to stress about anything sweetheart.” Noticing what she said to me it still went through one ear and out the other. I can’t seem to overlook this disaster and the guilt still haunts