Aaron’s Last Game :: Personal Narrative Writing

Aarons Last GamePlay this game like its your last. This is a common phrase that athletes hear from their coaches to befriend inspire them to play hard in a game. In the case of my friend Aaron Halford, a basketball game during his sophomore year of high school day was his last. It was a playoff game for the basketball team and there was a great deal of pressure on the players to perform well to move on to the nigh round. However, this was one game where regardless of the score, our team was going to lose. One of our players dribbled down the court, looked to pass, and took the shot. The ball bounced from rim to rim, back and forth, the crowd waited with anticipation, but no one counterbalance registered whether the ball entered the hoop. Aaron laid lifeless on the court. What happened, did I miss something? Was there a foul? No one in the crowd knew what caused Aaron to be craft on the court. A whistle was blown and the coaches ran come out onto the court only to fin d that Aaron wasnt breathing. Without any hesitation, Aarons dad raced down to where his son was lay unresponsively.Grab the defibrillator, yelled out one of the coaches. Another coach immediately began administering mouth to mouth resuscitation on Aaron. The whole middle school was completely silent. I sit there in disbelief not knowing what to do. Hes going to be alright, isnt he? Surely he will. Is there something I should do?I was short of breath and closed my eyes and began to pray, however, my thoughts made no sense. I can remember reciting over and over, Please God, dont let him die. Let him be ok.Everything happened so quickly. Before I knew it, two minutes had passed and Aaron still wasnt moving. At this point, the coach performing the CPR pulled out the defibrillator and started shocking Aarons chest. Aarons body jolted vigorously as his coach stunned him. The only speaking voice in the whole gym was Aarons father who was speaking to Aaron saying, Come on boy please wake up. I know you have it in you. Tears began to swell in my eyes. This cant be happening.Aarons father kneeled down next to his sons still body and prayed aloud.