Lessons learned ((Andre Ghoston))

When I first arrived at state I observed that most of the students here were trying to fit in. If they were not smoking or drinking they were doing some outrageous antics. One night a friend of mine said he was going to a party to get wasted and I thought to myself that he never got drunk before so why does he want to do it now. A group of guys called my friend's name and he hollered back that he was coming in a minute. I told my friend that something was going to happen because of the way that his so called new friends were acting. As usual he didn't listen, thinking that I was jealous of his new found friends. When he left I thought that I should go to the party to so I could just keep an eye on him. As I drove up I noticed that the people my friends left with were standing outside of the party but my friend was no where in sight. Right then I had a bad feeling. I walked in the inside of the party and my friend was fighting three people. I asked around to see why all this was going on and a girl told me that the people that had brought my friend to the party had set him up to get jumped on because my friend was talking to somebody's girlfriend. When the fight was over I took him back to my room and told him that what happens when somebody tries to fit in. After he cleaned up and put on some more clothes he told me that he was sorry for how he acted and that he had learned his lesson. He said that fitting in was not worth losing a long time friend.