Final Script

Katie:

Two years ago, I would spend forever in the bathroom, ensuring that my hair and makeup was perfect before I spent another hour picking out the perfect out for the day. Then I would pick up my friends with my new Mercedes Benz and go to school. School was just a place where I could hang out with my clique and look after new, hot guys or even tease the students who took school too seriously. It was a very nice feeling to be in the centre of the attention and I just felt good about myself when all the guys starred at me and the girls giving me jealous looks. You know, I only cared about myself to be honest. I would not help my mom doing housework, because it will harm my fresh manicured nails. I only talked with my dad when the credit card bill arrived, haha. How stupid I was… (sigh)

I didn’t realize how much I needed my parents, until I came home… pregnant. The only I can remember I was partying donw town with my clique and I saw this really, really HOT guy and the next morning I woke up not knowing where I was and a stranger lay next to me.

I didn’t think anything happened before I begun throwing up in the mornings and my period didn’t come and I easily became emotional. Even my friends kept a distance from me because I wasn’t the person they used to know anymore. I was lonely… after 4 months I lost my social status at school, I felt there was no one who could understand what I went through. To be honest, I became the loner who I used to make fun of before in the past. How ironic is that.

My belly became bigger and I tried to hide it by wearing loose and big clothes I secretly borrowed from my dad. But it did not work. In next moth everyone found out the truth. The nightmare started. Whereas I used to feel good when everyone was staring at me, I felt as though my whole life had collapsed in only 5 months…

Getting an abortion never came into my mind, because although my whole life fall apart I could never live with myself knowing that I killed a life.

Now I am sitting with my little girl on my lap. She is one year old and she the cutest thing I ever seen in my entire life. I quit school; I could not take the pressure. I wanted a new life. A new start.

Through my parents support I got another chance to finish my education by being homeschooled. I have changed my major from wanting to be a make-up artist to work as a social worker.

I finally that there lots of people with the same problem I have experienced, therefore I want to be there to help them to go through that period of their life and that it is not the end.

Today I’m working on finishing high school, my baby is in day care from 9 till 3 everyday. When she’s away I miss her a lot, because she is the most important thing in my life and even though she wakes me up during the night or makes a mess when she eats I know that I’ll always love her.

Even though she might not know it yet, she is the reason why I wake up when the sun rises.