God Comes First

Life Sucks

Hey guys my name is Crystal Sanchez and I'm 16 years old. I could say that I live a nice life with a loving family and nice spacious house, but that would be a lie. Like other families mine bickers a lot. I have 3 younger brothers that would do anything to set me off, a dog and nice parents. My family and I have definitely had our major ups and down, but at the end we are still family.

We live a nice enough house with two floors and a very small backyard. I shouldn't complain though because I know that people have it a lot worse then me. That's what I usually think when I don't get something I like. I'm just blessed enough to even have possessions of my own, to have a family of my own, to have friends of my own and to have a nice singing voice. I smile when I think about a church hymn called Count Your Many Blessings. I belong to a church called The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I love my church so much. Through thick and thin the church and its members have been by my side. That is the only thing that gets me through life- well and music too. Whenever I am depressed or just feeling down I'll read my scriptures or just sing hymns. It never fails to lift up my spirits.

Other days nothing seems to make me feel better and I just lock myself up in my room and think about all the evil in the world. Why do people do so many evil things? Why do some girls and boys dress up in revealing clothes? It's disgusting yet sad to think that girls need to dress up in such a manner to get boys attention and when boys dress up with no shirts on it makes me gag. Save your nudity for when your married and show your body to your spouse not everyone on the street. Sure I agree some people have nice bodies, but not everyone enjoys seeing people's bare skin. The church has this pamphlet called For The The Strength of Youth. It's a pretty cool pamphlet that has guidelines as to how the youth of our church are supposed to act, dress, behave and do other things. Now this isn't the type of book that says "You must do this." or "You must do that." It just has guidelines on how we should behave in case we have questions. It has some pretty good tips. Some of the youth in the church disregard this book, but I always keep it on me wherever I go.

Today was a nice day and I was planning on going to out to the movies to see the fourth movie of Transformers which was Transformers: Age of Extinction. I couldn't wait to see it. I am a major fan of Transformers and even have toys and books from the franchise. And before you say anything yes I am 16, but I will forever be a kid at heart. I will never be to old for Transformers. I was going by myself because my family didn't really like the previous Transformers movies as I did and that was perfectly fine with me. That means I could finally see a movie without my brothers pestering me throughout the whole movie.

I quickly took a shower and changed into a thin blue long sleeve shirt, black skinny jeans and vanilla colored UGG boots. To top it off I put on a small amount of lip gloss and brushed my naturally wavy hair to the right side of my shoulder. I rushed downstairs and grabbed a jacket with my wallet with phone. "I'm leaving now mom! I'll call when the movie is over." Just then I heard our door bell ring. Who the heck could that be? "Got it!" I yelled and walked to the door. When I opened it my jaw practically dropped to the ground. Standing in front of me was none other than the famous Dylan Rodriguez, only one of the most popular boys in my school. What the heck was he doing here?

My mom came out of her room to see who rang our door bell and when she saw Dylan she smiled. "Hello Dylan. Glad you could make it, come inside, come inside. It's cold outside." She pushed me to the side and brought Dylan inside. I'm sorry am I missing something here? As Dylan was taking off his jacket and sitting down on the couch I looked at my mom and mouthed "What the heck!" She just rolled her eyes and ignored me. Oh no she didn't. I cleared my throat and spoke up "Um, not to be rude or anything, but what exactly are you doing here?" I was gonna be late for my movie and if I missed it I was gonna be extremely pissed. Dylan looked at me with a charming smile, but I didn't let it phase me. "I reached out to your parents and asked them if I could come over and take you out on a date. I know I should have asked you, but I thought you would say no so I asked your parents instead and they said yes." I immediately looked to my mom with narrowed eyes. "You didn't." She replied "I did and you better not complain. Dylan sounds like a nice kid. I think you should give him a chance. I know you planned to go to the movies today so I thought you guys could go together."