Class Work Week 2 - Imaginative response to 'Senior Year of High School'

I honestly thought we had moved passed all of it. The mistrust, the suspicion, the doubt. I thought I had managed to prove myself this year. I really worked hard and I know I got good grades. I never went out and I did my best to stay out of trouble. So why won’t they believe me? All I want is to go for a couple of hours….surely that’s not too hard? I mean, this is my final graduation party! The last chance I have to celebrate the year that passed with all my friends. As if I would let alcohol or drugs ruin that! I know I can hold my own…peer pressure just doesn’t affect me. And anyway, that sort of thing doesn’t appeal to me. I don’t understand how drinking oneself into a stupor can be considered a ‘good time’….most of the time they don’t even remember what happened! But how do I convince my parents of this? Just because some people at my school are involved in all of that, doesn’t mean I am. Or even my friends, for that matter. I hate that the bad actions and poor choices of other teenagers have the ability to influence what other people think of me. Especially my own parents! How can they keep me from going just because there will be alcohol there? Surely they know their own daughter well enough to realise that I can and will make good and responsible decisions. I am not about to throw away everything I have worked hard for in the past few years just because a couple of classmates are drinking! I know I’m better than that…..and I thought my parents did too.