A Change Of Life

• Bryan Recinos, Grade 5
• Short Story
• 2010

There was a man whose name was Jake. Who gambled a lot of times and was selfish he would do the opposite of good things. He didn't care if he was doing bad things because he had lots of good things happening to him so; he thought he would just do bad things. He did that for 9 years, until one day when he accidentally pushed someone and they fell in the road. That person got ran over. He felt guilty, 3 days later he didn't care about it anymore.2hours later he received a message saying 'Dear Jake you will be going to court so get a lawyer and get prepared'. He still didn’t care. When he went to court he said "I don’t care if you do anything to me im not going to do it” He went straight to the door until the security guard stopped him .The judge said "I see because you pushed a man in the road I sentence you to go 3 years jail”. Jake stood up for himself saying "Please is there anything else I could do" The judge said "no but you also have to pay the fines so we could help that poor man”. Jake for his first time in 9 years had tears coming out”. He got bullied while he was in jail; he thought in his head all the money he had wasted when he was gambling that whole time he did not know what to do. In his room his mate was escaping his mate offered him to come with him. Jake refused "no I will not do bad things anymore”. His 3 years was up so he started to job search he signed up for being a mechanic he worked 10 hours a day. He made $10,693 he made enough to pay the fines he started to feel good about himself .He went church every Sunday and prayed for people. One day he remembered to confess, he went to church confessing he said to the priest "Im confessing because all these years I’ve been making wrong choices like gambling being rude and more, I regret all those things I have done” The priest said "I forgive you" 2 years later he met a women who he liked, he didn’t just like her by the looks he liked her because she had a nice personality.1 year later he got married and had a baby that he loved he was proud of himself because he made a change to his life. THE END