Personal Narrative: My First Vape Pen

Senior year is said to be the best year of high school. It was for me, until I earned my first detentions. During second hour, Mr. Breazeale, the school superintendent, called me out of class. He stated that the police dog was sniffing out cars in the parking lot, looking for anything suspicious. He said the dog showed interest in my car. He thought it was nothing, but they still needed to search my car. It was parked in the student lot surrounded by office staff, our school police officer, and a lady with her trained dog. They saw beer and pop cans through the clear window of the trunk of my car. However, she claimed she was required to search my car. After I unlocked the doors, she began going through all the compartments inside the car and that’s when it dawned on me.

Over the summer, I bought my first Vape pen.

There was no nicotine in it; just strawberry flavor vapor. It ended up breaking in July and I never replaced it. Yet I kept it in my car and kind of forgot about it. When the lady found it, she handed it over to my principal, stating that she doesn’t know our school policy on Vape pens. After she finished her elaborate search, she left with the dog and I was stuck in the parking lot with the principal and other administrators. I could tell the principal was disappointed in me with the way he looked at the Vape pen. His oldest daughter and I play softball together, and we’ve known each other for a while. He stated that it is against the school handbook to have anything tobacco related on school property. My consequences were to serve two detentions before