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Denis Boateng: A Short Story

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Man, I hate this place, Denis Boateng was thinking as he walked into Pike High School. He walked slowly to his locker as one of his friends came up to him. “Wassup Bro,” said Brandon, “Wassup,” then, he walked away silently. This year is going to be fun, Denis said sarcastically to himself quietly. Denis walked off the bus thinking about what Mrs. Hambol said and it kept repeating in his head “You’re not going to be anything when you go up” ever since that day he kept pushing Over the summer he applied to Butler University and got accepted to that school. He started at that school later that year and he majored in Sports Psychology. Then, he got his degree and went on to pursue his dream.
Now he moved to Virginia and he got an internship

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