Growing up was never really easy for me, as I did not know my father and my mom was out working two jobs just to provide for me and my older brother Matt. I guess will tell you a bit about myself I am 18 years old and a nerd, well that’s what I consider my self. I’ve won the science fair 3 years in a row. My father walked out on us when I was 6 and my brother Matt was 10 years old, he left for some girl that was 10 years older then my mom.
I thought that I my luck was never going to change and that I would always be a loser, but little did I know that would all change when I met him. His name was David; he was 23 and drove a motor bike. I guess that I will tell you how we came too met. Every Friday night my mom allows me to go to the club down the street with a bunch of friends. I went up to the bar to get a drink of water, and there he was. He looked rite at me and started coming my way, I tried not to notice him but he kept walking until he was rite beside me. He asked me my name and if I came here often. I told him that my name was Amy and that I was only just turned 18. He told me that his name was David and asked if I wanted to go out side to talk, as it was too loud to hear anything in the club over the loud music.
Once out side he told me that he thought that I was really cute and that he would like to get to know me better, and asked if I wanted to go for a coffee across the road. Seeing no harm in that I followed. Since I don’t drink coffee I had a bottle of water and he had a coffee. He asked if I had a boyfriend and since I didn’t I said no. He told me that he would like to take me on a ride on his motorbike and since I had never been on one, I said sure. Once on the bike I held close to him and as I did I could smell his scent and was strongly attracted to him. I don’t know what did it, his eyes, or the way he smelt. I asked him to stop as I needed to say something. He stopped the bike in an alley way, and we both got off. I started to tell him how much I liked him even though I just met him and he moved in closer to me to kiss me. I didn’t try to stop him, I just let it be. It was what we both wanted. As I heard my clock beep, it does on the hour every hour, I thought that my friends would come looking for me. I got him to drive me back to the club just as my friends were coming out. Sasha gave me the third degree about who was he. I just walked away and went home.
The weekend went by slow, my mom was at work and my brother was out at his friends. I decided that I should give David a call, the phone rang and rang. Finally some one picked up, it was him, my heart started to race a million speeds. We chatted about the weather and we chatted about that night. The night that we first met and shared our first kiss, well my first kiss. I heard the sound of a car door shutting so I had to quickly get off the phone, and run to my room. I was so afraid of what they would do if they found out that I was talking to David. As soon I got into my room and slammed the door shut, I could hear my older brother, Matt, and his loud friends coming into the house. He came into my room to see what I was doing, I told him to get out of my room. Later that night my mom came home and said that she would take me out shopping, now let me explain something about my mom she isn’t exactly the one that you want to be seen with in public. When we got down town to the mall my heart started to race I couldn’t believe who was standing in front of me talking to a bunch of girls, it was him. As we walked past them I could hear him calling out my name, my mom just turned to look at me to ask who he was. Just that moment he came and gave me a kiss on the lips and told me that he couldn’t stop thinking about me, he told me that he loved me. My mom didn’t say a word to me on the way home, she sent me straight to my room without dinner. That night I heard rocks being thrown at my window, it was him. He told me that he wanted me to run away with him and start a new life. I started to gather up my things and just as I was about to climb out my bedroom window my brother walked in. Where do you think that you are going, im leaving and please don’t tell mom until im gone please. I made him promise me that he wouldn’t tell mom yet, he promised. Just as I got into the truck with David I could see my mom running out the front door begging me to come back crying. I rolled down the window and told her that I can’t, as we drove away in the middle of the night. Neither of us said a word until we pulled into the motel in the next town. As we were getting the room, he asked me if we should get one bed or two, I said one. When we got into the room, all I wanted to do was go to sleep so I laid down on the bed. David came and laid down beside me. He leaned in for a kiss and I backed away. He asked me what was wrong and I couldn’t answer him. I took off instead, once out side my mind was racing in a million different ways. I didn’t know what I was doing or where I was going to go. All I knew was that I had to get out of there as fast as possible. As I was running away I heard him shouting my name and that I couldn’t go anywhere. All I knew that I had to do was keep running, as I approached a phone booth I called my mom, collect of course, she sounded concerned as always. I heard my brother matt in the background yelling that the cops were going to arrest David for kidnapping and after an hour of reassuring my mother that I was fine and that I was coming home soon, I hung up. As I walked back towards the motel I could see David waiting for me as he came towards me and kissed my forehead and told me he was sorry. I went back to lying down with his head on my stomach, when there was a knock on the door. I got up to see who it was as I looked out the window I saw a police car parked out front. I opened the door to find a cop asking me to come home and for David to go with him. I got dressed and got in the car. As David put up a fight and took off running. I got taken down to the city police station and offered a cup of coffee. They told me that David was a wanted felon and had a warrant out for his arrest after he escaped from prison and killed a cashier while trying to rob the variety store. I didn’t know what to say, I was shocked. My mom got to the station shortly after I was told the news about David. I ran into my mom’s arms begging for her forgiveness and to just take me home. While we were walking out of the station I saw them bringing in David in, I wanted to cry just at the site of him. I didn’t know what to think, that was the man that I lost my virginity to and that was the man that I wanted to spend my life with. I stopped to tell him that I was sorry. He just kept walking as he was being led by the police men.
I thought that everything was back to normal after everything that I went through with David. Until my period was late. I didn’t know what to think until I told my mom. She took me to the health centre to get tested. The test came back positive. I was devasted; my life was coming down around me as I had just got it rebuilt. I made an appointment to visit David in jail. As they led him in to the visitors’ room, my stomach turned. I had to tell him the news but I didn’t know what to say to him as soon as I was face to face with him. We talked about the weather and what happened. Then I just blurted out I missed my period. He looks puzzled at me, and asked what that meant. I told him I was pregnant and that I got tested this morning. His face went blank and asked if it was his, after reassuring it was his, he started to cry. I didn’t know what to say to him after that. I tried to comfort him by giving him a hug, and telling him that I am going to wait for him to get out so that we can raise the child together. He told me that he would love that, and that he would try to get out on good behavior. I left the jail feeling happy and upset at the same time.
2 years later and I have a beautiful baby girl called Jessica, in 2 months her daddy gets out on parole. These 2 years have been hard but my mom has been behind me all the way. I have my own place ready for David’s release. The day that he got released, Jessica and I, were waiting at the gate for him to get out. As I saw him walking towards the gates, my eyes started to water and I started to cry. As he came towards me all I could do was throw my arms around him and start to cry harder. He told me that he loves me and that he always will. He gave me all of the letters that he didn’t send to me due to my mom; there was almost a 1000 letters. When we got to the apartment I was so afraid of him not liking it. He turned to me and as if to read my mind he told me that he loved the place. I showed him around the apartment, I put Jessica to bed and curled up on the couch with David. I told him that I loved him and that I thought about him everyday til he got him. I told him that I did a lot of thinking, but he interrupted my thoughts with his own and out of his pocket he pulled out a diamond ring and asked me to marry him. I was shocked I didn’t know what to think; I started to cry tears of joy and said yes. I called my mom to tell her the good news, she said that she was happy but she sounded disappointed. I thought that she would be happy for me but then I realized why she wasn’t happy. He got her little girl knocked up and he had just gotten out of jail. I told my mom that I loved her and hung up. David sensing that something was wrong came into the kitchen and walked up behind me and put his arms around me and kissed my neck. Needless to say that ended up in the bedroom. I guess I fell asleep in David’s arms because I woke up to Jessica crying. I went into her room to find David rocking her in the rocking chair. She fell asleep. It was 11pm when we got Jessica to bed. I laid down in bed, 5 minutes David came in and laid his head on my tummy. We talked about what our future will look like and what would we be doing. I told him that I wanted him to be in my life, and that I wanted us to be a happy family, David, Jessica and I.
I woke up to banging loudly on the door. I threw on my dressing gown and answered the door. It was the police, I asked what’s wrong and what do you want. They said that it was routine for them to check on convicts that just get released for parole. I allowed them into the apartment and went to get David up. He came into the living room in his boxers and asked what the hell they were doing there. They explained exactly to him what they told me. While they were talking I heard Jessica over the baby monitor. I went to get her out to the crib and brought her into the living room. David took her out of my arms and told the police that we were doing fine and there is nothing to worry about, they left unhappy.
My mom came the very next day, to give her apologizes. She told me that she just wants better for me, but she sees that I am happy. She asks if she can give me away at the wedding, David came in to the room and said that he would love that. He went up to my mom and gave her a hug. My mom left with a big hug and lots of kisses.
We started to plan for the wedding, I wanted to have it in April and have a big white dress. We planned it for April 17th. We made all the plans and got all the prices. We bought the dress, a beautiful white strapless dress. My mom has arranged for my hair and my makeup. We called all of our friends to tell them the date.
When April 17th finally came around I was really happy. Jessica was almost 3 years old, she would be on April 19th. I was in my gown when my mom walked in to tell me that David’s mom and brother was here and wanted to talk to me. They walked in to my room and the first thing out of his brother’s mom was wow you look amazing. His mom came and gave me a hug, she told me that she was happy that I was coming into the family and that she heard nothing but good things about me. I smiled and told her that I loved her as a mother. She smiled and started crying. I was left alone to get ready.
I heard the music start to play. I was so happy; I knew that this is what I wanted. As I started to walk through the doors to walk down the while I saw David standing at the front waiting for me. With Jessica walking beside me as the flower girl, I continued to walk forward. As I neared the alter I saw David smiling at me. When we were saying our vows, his made me cry tears of joy, and I said my vows for him, I saw that he was trying to hold back a smile and tears. We said our "I do's" and did our kiss. As soon as were announced man and wife he picked me up and said that he had his prize for life. Our reception was at a beautiful hotel, were we both got drunk. Our honey moon he took me to a beautiful camp out in a cabin, were we had Jessica at his mothers and we were all alone. We spent a week on our honey moon before we got missing Jessica.
When we drove back into town to his mothers to pick up Jessica, we saw a police car as we pulled up. I got out first concerned if there was anything wrong with Jessica. The officer told me that he wasn’t able to get us at home for the routine check in, and that there was a warrant out for his arrest. With out being able to do anything I had to watch them drag my newly husband away. Crying I tried to plead with the officer telling that we just got back from our honey moon. Getting told to save it for court I watch him get driven away. Crying I went into his mothers house. Jessica and I stayed there at his mom’s house. In the morning his mom and I, leaving Jessica with his brother, went up to the court house to plead our case. The judge being understanding released him into my care and he had to be in my care until the bail was up. I had no problems with that as he was my husband. When we got him he was really upset that that had happened today and that Jessica and I had to see that. I tried to tell him that it was okay and that we both still loved him very much. We decided to put Jessica to bed and just lay down and talk. We talked about what happened today and what we would do. He told me that he didn’t want this to keep happening and that he didn’t want Jessica to know that his daddy was in jail for the first 2 years of her life. I told him that we didn’t matter anything about that, and that we were a family and will always be a family. He just looked at me and told me that he loved me and that I was his world. I told him that we weren’t going anywhere. We leave asleep in each others arms. When I woke up in the morning he was looking at me, smiling.
