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I guess I'm really writing this so
maybe other people will read my story and not make the same mistakes.
I have. I am a 16 year old sophomore
and until about a year ago I was very smart and had a lot
of friends. One day I was a normal teen with a normal family
and the next my world was being torn apart. My family started
having a lot of problems I feared my parents getting a divorce
and I was living with a suicidal sister.
I started spending less and less
time at home and more time with the people that I called my
friends. They all were into drugs and the stealing and violence
that goes with them.
At the time I thought they were
my friends and the only people who cared about me. And because
of this I started to lose the people I now realize are my
true friends. I ended up almost getting raped by one of those
guys and to this day no one really knows how bad it was. I
felt like no one was on my side, like the world had turned
against me. And that's when I turned away from everyone and
everything except drugs.
I was drinking or getting high
all the time. I had to be because a fix doesn't last forever
and I just wanted out of my pain the easy way. I had no friends,
no life, and my grades were dropping. I was never home and
when I was, I was sleeping off a buzz. This went on for a
long time.
One day, I realized I really
loved one of the guys I had been hanging with. He was the
only one that stuck by me and believed me when that other
guy tried to rape me. I lay awake in bed that night and thought
about everything, about how I had kicked God out of my life
and everything else I had messed up.
It wasn't easy, believe me, its
not easy just to stop doing drugs, to rebuild friendships,
or to bring up fallen grades. I still struggle with these
things, especially working my grades up and not doing drugs.
But I have the support of great friends and a wonderful boyfriend
and of course God my creator and friend.
I still have nightmares about being raped and things aren't
great at home, but I also have hope and love, and best of
all, I don't have drugs and never will again.
Please print this. I want to
share my story with as many people possible.
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