I was in sixth grade when I met a girl named Carolina Cruz. She quickly became one of my best friends. While I was friends with him I started to meet and soon become friends with some of his friends. I started having a lot of friends who did a lot of negative things, by negative I mean, they hardly went to school and when they did they went to school drunk or didn't go to class. Being friends with them wasn't smart of me, as I would never do that. I was the exact opposite of them. I always went to school; I would do everything I was told and I had never touched or thought about touching any type of medication. It was around seventh grade when I dropped out of school for the first time ever. We went to my friend Carolina's house. Her parents were passive parents and would grant her every wish. They knew she wasn't going to school and that seemed to be okay. I was there with her and a couple of other people when they started taking pills, marijuana and alcohol. Everyone started doing it. Apart from me, I kept saying no, no. When I finally gave in. For the first time ever I started drinking and smoking. Eventually it started to become a habit. I would miss school a lot and start consuming what I mentioned above. Amazingly, I still managed to maintain my good grades. So no one knew what I was doing. Months and years passed, I continued to drink, smoke, and skip class constantly, but strangely keeping my grades higher than a C. I graduated on stage from my middle school with decent grades. I went to a good high school, but I still had those horrible habits. I knew what I was doing was off course because no one at a young age should be doing that kind of thing. I wanted to go to school because I had a hangover, but I told myself I would never touch any of that again. It wasn't difficult also because above all my friends' definition of "we will have fun" was that we would do everything that I had promised myself I would never do again. It was hard to be their friend and not do those things, but little by little it started to get easier. Here I am in college and I'm still doing well in school and I haven't even done any of those things since the day I promised myself I wouldn't. I have had many benefits from changing the negative person I was. I don't have to lie to my parents about why I smell funny. I feel like I'm not a good sister and also a good person with positive vibes. Maybe if I hadn't made that decision maybe I wouldn't have gone to college. Maybe I would have influenced my little brother to do those bad things too.