Strongly Bonded

I first met my cousin D.J. when I was three years old. I mean we had seen each other before but we were both babies. So that really didn’t matter. Not until we were both three years old, we had our first real meeting. We had a sleep over at my house. We have been air tight since then, for the most part getting a long too. He’s about three months older than me but he is a grade higher. He is by far my closest relative and that’s not including my little brother.

Since he has always been a grade higher than me he has always gotten to experience things first. So he has always been able to give me great advice on the stuff he has gone through, and also I know its current stuff. That has always helped me succeed because I have known what to expect. It’s always made me look better in our family since have tended to do better in school and stuff. Even though I got to learn from some of his mistakes, he experiencing stuff first in some things made it easier.

The most memorable event between me and D.J. was when I was in 8^th grade and he was a freshman. He came up to me one day and said,

“Aye bro I got something to tell you…” I replied,

“What is it?” he responded,

“I stole from my next door neighbors.” I didn’t know what to say after that. I tried to tell him to hide it and not tell his parents. So of course he did that. So one day when he was in the shower, his mom was looking for him. When she went in his room to talk to him, she figured out that he wasn’t in his room. So she decided to look around. Well she found a fancy pair of headphones that she didn’t know he had and she remembered how the next door neighbor’s mom was talking about her sons missing headphones. When he got out the shower she questioned him tough, knowing that there was a good chance the headphones were stolen. After a while he just gave and admitted.

D.J. was in so much trouble after this. He was grounded for the whole summer. That mishap made me realize that you should always confess and tell the truth. Also it made me realize how bad stealing is. So those series of unfortunate events helped me learn a bit about life. That is why he was a person in my life that impacted me a lot.