Whitney's+Folk


 * __Time to Do the Right Thing __**

 There was a young boy by the name of Traevon Smith who lived with his mother and his sister. He was a 16 year old boy who was 5’7 short cut, dark brown skin, 156 pounds. Traevon always kept to his self but his sister on the other hand was very out spoken. Her name was Tasha Smith, she was 14 years old but was the total opposite of her brother. Miss. Barbara Smith she was a single mother who was raising her kids with the best ability she knew how. It was hard but she did all she could do while working to support her family. They never had a stable home but they made ends meet. Traevon and Tasha attended Sanderson Mill Middle School in Sanderson County. Now Tasha was an A, B student but Traevon on the other hand didn’t really care about school. All Traevon thought about was stealing and lying that was his main goal in life. Because of the person that he was he decided to steal something from this teacher Mr. Long. So he thought and thought about what to steal. As him and his friend were at lunch he told them what his plan, how he needed money and the only way to get it was to steal from his teacher cause he knew he had money.

Final it was time to go back into the classroom, Traevon was ready to go into action and take what he needed to take from the teacher. The class went into the library to work on a project that gave Traevon enough time to do what he had to do. “Mr. Long I left something in the classroom can I go and get it.” “Well I told you make sure that you take everything that you need with you.” “Man I know gives me the keys so that I can go and get what I need dang it’s not that serious.” “ Don’t talk to me in that tone of voice young man ok I will let you go this time but hurry up.” So as he went down the halls to Mr. Long classroom he knew it was his time to do what he had to do. He entered the classroom and went straight to were the wallet was at, he looked in it and saw three hundred dollar bills his eye lit up. He figured that he needed to get back into the library before anything happened. So Traevon was on his way he entered the library and gave him key back to Mr. Long. “Why thank you I though you would never get back.” “What you talking about Mr. Long chill out with that mess.”

It was almost time to leave and go home so everyone gathered up their items and left school at 3:25. Traevon and his friends all rode the same bus to the projects. He went up to his friend and showed them the money and they wanted some.They all descided to slip the money and went there own seperate ways. So Traevon went home and was telling his sister what he had done, she told him that he needed to give the money back to him cause he was wrong for taking his money.

As the next day of school came Traevon and his friends the bus pulled into the school and all you saw was police men every where they begin to get scared. As they got off the bus they wanted to run but there was administrators every where. They were the last three people to get off the bus and when they stepped off they grabbed all three of them. “Man get off of me, what you doing, I anit do anything yo.” As they took them inside to the principle office everybody was looking at them very strange and didn’t know what to say. The administrators begin to question them about his money but they didn’t even respond so they took matters into their own hands. “Well if you just admit that you took the money the consequences want be as bad. But if you don’t then something will really happen that that want be pretty.” But all they young boys did was just look at each other. So the everyone thought of something to do and they wanted to put them into juvenile detention for a year. They called their parents and talked it over with the parents. Traevons mother was so disappointed she started to cry out her eyes out. “ Traevon, Traevon how could you do this to me, I work hard for you and your sister if you need something you could have came to me son.” “Mom I am so sorry I didn’t mean to I needed the money at the time I was in need of some food.” “Ok son go and do what you have to do.”

As the police took the boys out of the school all of them though to their self’s that they would never do anything like that again. So they served the three months in detention and when they got out they were changed young men. They begin to go to church and do the right thing so they never have to go down that road again. They didn’t want to let down their parents any more.