Chapter Three-Nicole Barton
The last day before school. I can't help but think of how much my life has changed over the last year. I'm now 17 years old, I went from having many best friends to having just one and I now have a beautiful one year old daughter.
I can't really remember how my life got so twisted. I just know I remember thinking I was the luckiest girl in the world. I was popular and I had more that enough friends. Well how quickly things change. Matthew Daniels' was my boyfriend. I didn't think I could love anyone as much as I loved him. He did all the right things. He waited for me after every class, occasionally sent gifts to me during class so every one in the room would feel envious of me, and when he looked at me it was like the whole world disappeared. I remember when I first saw him. I couldn't help but stair when his dark brown hair glowed when the sun touched it and how his eyes mimicked the ocean on a stormy day. I remembered the way the Goosebumps would raise on my skin when he smiled; his perfect smile was what got me. How you could be having the worst day and when you saw it you couldn't help but smile along with it. And then there was his manly features his strong broad shoulders and the body to match.
It didn't take long after we started dating for me to want to give my self to him. He had already lost his virginity, and he knew it was a big deal for me so he never pushed me. After we did it the first time it was like nothing I ever felt before. I didn't think I could love him any more that I did and I was wrong. After that it was like we couldn't get enough of each other. He loved me and I loved him what ells could I ask for. Well the thing you love can be deceiving.I remember him telling me that his parents were having problems, but he always thought it would get better, well it didn't.
One night I was up late pacing back and forth in my room counting days in my head. I had never been late, not once. When the idea finally came to me I didn't know what to do. The first person I told was my mother. After a whole lot of screaming and crying and more screaming she told me she would always be there for me and help me along the way. When I told Matt it was a whole different story.
Maybe I should have asked him first how his day was, because then I would have known that he just found out that his parent was splitting apart. We were sitting on the couch in his living room when I told him. It was the scariest moment in my life. I felt as though my whole entire body moved with each pulse of my heart, and as if there was not enough oxygen in the world to sustain me. He got up the second I spoke the dreadful word . He was yelling all sorts of things like how it wasn't his, and how I cheated on him, and that he wanted no part of it or of me. I don't think words can even come close to completing how I felt, it was almost as if he ripped out my heart n threw it on the floor and stomped all over it, while I watched. I was so terrified that I ran out the house and never looked back. Soon after that I herd my parents talking about Matt going to jail for something, I still wasn't completely over what had happened so I never bothered to find out what it was.
"Nicole I'm going out, come down here and look after your baby"
I happy my mothers still around to help me with Sam but she never forgets to remind me whose responsibility she is.
"I'm coming" I got out of bed and made my way down to the kitchen. I found Sam laying in my mothers arms with her fingers in her mouth my mother walked over to me and placed her in my arms. I brushed her dark brown curls from her face and kissed he cheek.
"Good morning my angel" She put her hands on my face and smiled. I couldn't help but smile back into her beautiful green eyes.
"I heated up her bottle; it's over there on the counter. I don't know what time I'm going to be back. Do you think your going to be ok?"
