PAIN HURTS BUT ONLY FOR A MINUET

PAIN HURTS BUT ONLY FOR A MINUET
Based on a true occurrence...

I was stupid when I was young. I had to be the class clown. Always making jokes and doing stuff to impress others. Like one time in ninth grade when I found a chair in the hallway. I picked it up and brought it upstairs to my class. In the hall about 30 people asked me what I was carrying a chair over my head for.
I need a chair to rest my feet on in math.
When I got to math class the teach had a fit. She yelled at me and asked where the chair came from.
It was down by my locker I wanted it for a foot rest.
She took that as trying to be funny and she said I was going to be punished on Monday.
Monday. I got detention. What a relief. I thought I would ave In School Suspension or ISS as we call it. I sat in detention after school until 4:30. Having no work to do I read THE CHCOLATE WAR by Robert Cormier.
After detention my came to pick me up. My sister and brother where in the van also.
What are they doing here.
Where going to go visit grandma and grandpa.
My grandma and grandpa lived in an apartment in the city. My grandpa was going to the university for cancer treatment. He had cancer for about 4 years. My grandma had MS. She was ok but there was no cure for it.
When we got the we parked about three blocks away. We had to walk because there were no parking spots by the apartments. So I walked ahead of every body. I like to walk alone. We had to round the next corner and then walk two more blocks north. When I got to the corner I took a left turn. There where three guys who had just crossed the road and stepped in front of us. All of the sudden a car pulled up next to them on the road and the people inside stared yelling at them. I started to back away. Just than people from the car started shooting. bullets where flying everywhere. I ducked. Than a pain in my gut you couldnt imagin even if you had been shot before. I was bleeding fast and hard. My mom came running towards me. When she saw what had happened she yelled at my brother.
Take off your overshrit and tie it on your brother than help him up and Ill be around with the van.
ok.
He tied his shirt of me and helped me to my feet. The pain in my gut was unbarable. It felt as if I had been just hit there with a baseball bat from a pro athleet. My mom came around with the van and my brother helped me in. We wrapped my sister scarf over the shirt. Than all I can remember is blackness and I felt no pain.. A blurp from a doctor here and there was all I could hear. I could not responed in any way.
When I woke up days latter I was in more pain. My stomach was wraped and I was placed in a hospital bed. Just then a nurse walked in.
Where am I.
A hospital.
Wheres my mom and brother and my sister and dad.
There at home now but there coming to vistit you later on.
What happened to me.
You where shot. They bullet rickishayed and hit you just under the ribs. They caught the people who did it. You where in bad condition when you got here already passed out. We where able to stop the bleeding but you had to have surgery to remove the bullet. Does it still hurt.
Yes.
You'll be fine.
I don't think so.
I'm goning to tell you somthing a doctor once told be.
Yes.
He said that pain hurts but only for a minuet but life is short so go on and live it.