Left behind

      I guess I need to start with the back store leading up. The typical girl meets bad boy and falls for him. Even tho everyone says he's bad for her she stays with him. Makes bad decisions and almost ruins her life. Long story short I thought at 16 I was pregnant and before I even knew if I was I told my father and step mother. Talk about feeling guilty! After many tests and doctors visits I was not pregnant. Such a relief but it wasn't over just yet.

        May 14th 2007
              Woke up and thought it was going to all go back to normal. Started getting ready for school only to hear a knock on the bathroom door. Daddy asked me what I was doing and I told him I was getting ready. He says I'm not going to school that day. I don't argue bc hey what kid is going to fight to go to school. I head back to bed wondering why I'm not going but I don't question it.
                8oclock am daddy comes in and wakes me up saying we have to run to town won't take long so don't worry about getting ready or anything. I get in the car. We head to town and stop by the bank. As daddy is inside I see some bags in the back seat. I ask Michelle why they are back there. She doesn't answer me so I just let it go. Daddy comes back and we start heading down the road. 5 mins in and daddy says well we might as well tell u where we are sending u.
                Sending you? What kind of statement is that? What does that even mean? I yell and ask what he means by that. I'm so confused but scared at the same time. Teen Challenge! A world all it's own.
                 Hours and hundreds miles away we arrive to Seal, Alabama. Home of Teen Challenge Columbus girls academy.
                  I seriously contemplated not getting out of the car but I was so pissed at my parents that if it meant being away from them I'd do anything. We head inside the main office. I'm completely numb at this point. How could they do this? How could they just get rid of me?  They talked to the people who checked me in and they said their good bye's. the last memory I have of my step mother was her trying to hug me and I just sat there limp. I wanted nothing to do with them. I wanted them gone but at the same time I was begging.... Yelling inside to take me with them. But they left. They left me there with all these strangers. All these people I didn't know and I had no idea when I would see my family again.
               

Where to begin?

           Where do I begin? The beginning of my life? When I came inches close to ruining it? When it started getting better again?

            Looking back if someone would have told me 7 years ago i would one day have such an amazing family with two beautiful children I would have never believed it. I could have never believed I would be where I was then and get where I am now. God works in mysterious ways indeed. Most don't know my life's story even the closest people to me may not know it all and for all I know they may not want to. I'm not proud of the decisions I once made but I hope to be a better mother and role model for it.

             So where do I begin? I guess I could start with HI I'm Jessica and I'm NOT perfect! 

       P.s if I spell things wrong or use the wrong grammar I want to go ahead and apologize. I'm horrible at grammar.