Pacific Grove, CALIF- People make silly decisions every day. It's easy to go right instead of going left. How many times have you run through a yellow light when things could have turned really bad? The sad thing is that's really what has happened to Chelsie Hill. She made a bad decision, she was in the wrong place at the wrong time and now she's paying for it for the rest of her life.
"I just hope someone gets something from this, I'm really scared. I don't talk in front of people you know. I was put here to dance," said Hill.
Moments later in front of more than 500 of her classmates, Chelsie Hill sat in her wheel chair in the gym of pacific grove high, to bear her soul. Telling how she regrets getting into a car with a friend who was drinking, "The next thing I remember is hitting the side of the curb and seeing a tree then blacking out. Then I heard Chelsie you're going to be okay, you're going to be okay," said Hill.
Her mother and father sat in that gym too watching and listening to their daughter, remembering the moment they got the news. "It dropped me to my knees. You know it's indescribable. It's something I wouldn't want any parent to go through," said Jon Hill, Chelsie's dad.
Today Chelsie went through the details of her carefree life before and after. She even shared a video of her accident to show her classmates how things can change in an instant. It was a dramatic hour, ending with Chelsie begging her friends and classmates to do two things think, and not take anything for granted.
"I'm a teenager and my life is completely different now because of one decision I made." Said Hill. "She did great, she did great she held her head high," said Wendy Hill, Chelsie's mom.
