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Escuela de Estudios
Profesionales
Programa AHORA
By: José R. Romero
Velázquez
December 13, 2015
Facilitator: Roberto Diaz
Montalvo
ENGL 231
Essay to be sent by email
Topic No. 7
When you had the urge to run away
Run as fast
as you can. The scariest moment of my
life.
There he is, I thought, is he going to kill me? I asked myself when I was 11 years old, and I
saw the man that tried to kill my brother a few days before. I was on my way to the bakery to buy bread,
as my mom asked me to do so, when I saw this tall and skinny guy facing my
direction. When I saw him closer, I
noticed who he was. I thought he has see
me already, so in that moment I couldn’t think to hide, I just ran away and
jumped a fence. Let me tell you what
really was going on.
Two or three days before, my older
brother, a short build man, got in to a fight with “EL Flaco”, as everybody
knows him, and the people who saw them fighting said that el Flaco was losing
the fight, and ran to his car, opened the trunk and got a machete. When my brother saw him with his machete, he started
to run. Then my brother saw a brick on
the grass, took it and tried to defend himself with it. He tried to turn around, but he fell onto the
ground and el Flaco attacked him.
What could my brother do at that
moment? My brother is the strongest man
I know. People have seen him fighting
three men at a time and won the fight.
But, the fight wasn’t fair this time, my brother was in disadvantage. So, he just used his bare hands to repel the
attack, and stopped the machete before it touch his face. For some seconds, he thought he succeed, and
el Flaco did not kill him. Well, that
was true, but you can’t walk away from a hard battle without wounds.
My tiny, but strong brother, was on
the floor, with his hand around the sharp machete, when el Flaco pulled it
away. It left deep wounds on both of my
brother’s hands. The guy just walked
away and ignored the fact that the severe loss of blood could kill him. That person was bad, and didn’t care if the
bleeding human being on the floor died or not.
So he became the scariest man in the world for me.
A few days later we were walking
facing each other, so it scared me to death.
I ran fast, I jumped a fence, I was looking in all directions just in
case he decided to follow me trying to kill me as he tried to kill my
brother. My brother almost bled to death,
but he survived. Would el Flaco be so
mad that he would think to kill my brother’s siblings too? I was so young, that I just got a surviving
instinct, and ran as fast as I could. So, I still think, if something like that
happen to you, run as fast as you can.
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