Undercover Hero

     Today me and my friend broke into a gas station, we were caught and sent to jail, and my dad posted my bail. Now I have to tell my dad my reason for doing what I did, as he thinks I did it as a criminal while I was only trying to be a hero. When I broke in to the gas station I was only going to use the money for my mom... She has been in the hospital for a whole month with cancer. my family is so poor and the only way I could help her was with money I stole. I don't know any other way I could do it as we only have a limited amount of money in our house and most of it was spent to bail me out of jail. Now I regret doing it and now it has made my family worse. I put a bad name on my family and it's all my fault. I will now be known to myself as the hero that failed, I only hope that sometime soon my mom may be healed.
     The next day I went to school to find a whole school-full of people that were supporting my mother, while they still didn't support my actions, I was so very happy I actually broke down in tears. The school actually started a huge fundraiser just for my mother. Some kids even had their heads shaved just to show support for my mother!! It took a whole week but the final amount of money was at last gathered up and we raised a finishing amount of five thousand dollars. That's enough to pay for my mom's surgery plus a couple hundred dollars. I will cherish this moment forever and ever. I am now planning to start a foundation for the poor families that have a relative in the hospital with cancer. I hope that everyone will have enough money to help someone who's relative has cancer and I have good wishes towards the families I can't reach, but I hope everyone has another chance at life just as my mother has had.

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