We proceeded to round up as many people as we could to join in our evenings plan and continued to drink very heavily. Once more people arrived we started to play cards and talk about the hard week of work, glad to have finally gotten to the weekend. No one in the room seemed to have a care in the world at that point in time, everything was laid back no pressures of the real world, no thought of work or school. The night had started to early I was feeling the effects of the alcohol coming over me like a sickness. Still I proceeded to push the limits to prove something meaningless and dumb. We had many hours before the nights events started. I remember thinking to myself that I was going to be in trouble If I didn't slow down on the liquid courage, a feeling that I was very accustomed to, but something wasn't right to night I felt a fore

ign feeling that I quickly dismissed and chased with another drink.

Once we all arrived at the bowling ally we charged in heading straight to the bar, ordering drinks like it had been days since we had one. We had reserved two lanes so that everyone could bowl at once with out having to wait. It was about 12:30 p.m. when I looked up at the clock again barely able to raise my head, by this point thinking to myself that I had better get home soon or I might just pass out right there in the bowling ally. Matt my driver, on the way there had picked up the pace on his consumption of our poison of the night beer, as had most of us. I made up my mind, that I needed to get everyone that was riding in my car ready to get out of this place, and on the road home. It was about 1:30a.m. when I got everyone ready and in the car.

Months went by before my court date for my DUI arrest. My mother and I arrived at the court house and meet with my lawyer. When court started and it finally got to my case, my lawyer went up to talk to the prosecutor, to apply for diversion. When my lawyer turned to come talk to me his face seemed grim. He asked me to come it to a private room to talk. As he read down the list of things that I had to do for diversion, my jaw dropped as did my mothers it seemed like they where putting me on probation for a federal crime or something. I signed the paper, it being my only choice besides jail and gave it to my lawyer, bitterly thinking that I was getting an unfair deal.

I turned on the car, and got my seat adjusted back to my setting. Matt being much taller than me had moved all the way back. I remember Todd asking me if I was ok to drive, I thought to myself what a stupid question this was considering he had been

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