New Cause and Effect

Author's Note: This is my new cause and effect piece, I wrote this piece on the book I Know What You Did Last Summer. The cause is driving drunk and the effect is killing a little boy.

Have you ever done something so stupid that you regret it to this day? In the book I Know What You Did Last Summer, by Lois Duncan, a few high-schoolers thought that it would be a good idea to go hang out on a Friday night at one of their houses and have a few drinks. But drinking was not the stupidest thing they did that night. After they were finished drinking they decided to go out for a drive. What they didn't know was going to happen, was that there was going to be a little kid riding his bike down the hill on his way home, while they were going up it. Drinking that night wasn't the mistake they made, the mistake was driving while intoxicated. 

This incident affected a lot of people. It affected the teenagers, the little boy, and the boy's parents. The teenagers made the situation worse on themselves because they pulled a hit and run. They called the police to alert them of the issue but they called and drove away. To this day the occurrence haunts them, in the mail two of the four now "adults" have gotten a slip of newspaper from that night containing everything that happened. This occurrence  will forever haunt them until they come clean about it. This also affected the boy and his parents. For starters, because the boy was killed which of course affected him but also affected his parents majorly. The parents had to deal with the great loss of their child passing away, and not even knowing who did it or what happened. The impact of the effect of those teenagers decisions that night was huge.