Document Type
Narrative Essay
Publication Date
1996
Excerpt
I took the bottle in my hand and carefully looked around the dimly lit back section of the gym locker room. This was hardly the place where I had envisioned trying alcohol for the first time. I sat down on the bench as my other classmates were sipping alcohol from the other circulating bottles and finally took a few drinks myself. The clear peachy smelling alcohol went down quickly, and I sat still for a minute expecting something dramatic to happen like an extreme surge of power. Instead, all I felt was a sharp burn in my stomach and a lingering scent of peaches on my breath. Finally, my classmates and I carefully locked the bottles away in one of the lockers and exited the locker room into the gym, ready to begin class. I still remember clearly all of the faces I saw in the gym that day. We all shared the same blank stares that mesmerized our gym teacher. It was not until two days later that the word began to circulate around school that a number of girls in the seventh grade, first-hour gym class were brave enough to try alcohol before class.
Recommended Citation
Recktenwall, Kelley, "Intoxicated by Curiosity (1996)" (1996). The Valpo Core Reader. 193.
http://scholar.valpo.edu/core_reader/193