by T.R. Mintz

Created on: February 01, 2009

Now, I've never been called a follower but I've never been called a leader either. That is, not until That Night. That Night (as we all refer to it) was the first time I've ever been called on something really important to do outside of making a home run for my school's baseball team. You're probably itching to know what I'm going on about, aren't you? Well, I'm going to tell you, just hold on.Like I said, it was important and I was eighteen and I never saw it coming. It was surprising, like when you expect someone to take a walk when they're up to bat but they deviate from the plan and swing anyway.The bleachers are shaking with the disapproval of the swing but before they know what's happened the ball is flying through the air and the batter is running and running and bam! Home run, the guy whose team and town were booing him is drenched in a sports drink and his ears are filled to the brim with cheering.That's right, it was like that. The only difference is that when that happens, if you mess up you know there's always next season,but if I struck out That Night, it would've been for good. I'm not going to start the story beginning the night it all happened,because the beginning was a day before, a Thursday.

I was in study hall when I heard about it,actually I'd been hearing about it for the past two weeks at home, but it was my first time hearing about it in school and from my friends. I was reading a chapter from my geography textbook when David (my bestfriend since kindergarten) began arguing with Chad (a friend of ours since fifth grade) over the Albert Franks issue that had been the center of every adult's conversation since Al Franks moved to our town. Why was the relocation of Albert Franks so important to our little town? Because he was convicted of murder and sentenced to prison for life until his lawyer was able to prove he was falsely accused.Hence, he was released and decided to move to a new town two thousand miles away, where he thought he would have a fresh start. Unfortunately for him, Chad's pop loves reading every little story he can lay his hands on, he read Albert's story in a tiny article that everybody else in town had overlooked. It also wasn't in Al's favor that Chad's old man is the proud owner of the biggest mouth in town, so every person in town new all about Albert's dark past within three days and it became the favored topic of discussion since. Things hadn't really started to turn dangerous until Thursday morning and hadn't turned

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