My father is a firefighter so he worked twenty-four on, twenty-four off and that day he was working, so I had some time to go to Roberts house. I went from the bus stop to Robert's house one day while my older brother walked home. I started home at four-thirty knowing that my mother would be home at five. I walked around the corner onto my street and I was horrified to see my mom's car sitting in the driveway. In that desperate moment I decided to lie to my mom which is a major crime in my home. I walked in and she asked me why I was a hour and a half late and I said that the bus was late, of course totally forgetting that my older brother was already at home from the same bus. She asked me if I came directly home and I answered yes. That happened when I was in the 4th grade and I regret that lie even to this day. I was spanked, and grounded for two weeks. I also lost a lot of my parents trust.
As I was growing up my parents generally had a lot of trust in me (after I earned it back from the 4th grade incident.). When I was 13 They would let me be home alone more and they would let me go to the mall or movies with my friends as long I was home when they said I had to be home. Once when I was 13 I went out with my friends and a kid that just started hanging out with us pulled out some cigarettes and offered us some. My parents both smoke but they told me they did not want me to smoke and I would be in big trouble is I was ever caught smoking. I knew that some of my friends smoked and I decided if they ever tried to pressure me into smoking that I wouldn't do it. So I said no thanks when everyone else went into one of my friends back yard to smoke. I am very glad I left when I did, my friends parents got home about six minutes later and discovered them smoking in the back yard. His parents called all of my friends parents and my best friend Matt was grounded for a month. I told my parents what happened and they were proud of me because I did the right thing.
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