Jamila

Chapter 14

After my boyfriend's funeral,I was so depressed.It would have been better if he had gone to jail.He would 

have been released a better person.5 weeks after that I got pregnant and my mom went crazy.She started 

crying hysterically when the results came out.My dad had left us a long time ago and now she was working 

solo.How was she gonna take care of the baby while I was at school?How can I even go to school?.My 

whole world was falling apart.I got home schooled and 9 months later I gave birth to a girl, my baby 

sister.My mom told me to call her my baby sister to avoid attention or questions.I gave birth to my own 

sister.After that everything went downhill,I cried myself to sleep,didn't have any friends and felt so lonely in 

the house.That was 6 months ago,before my mom made this decision to take me here in early may.It made 

me feel so anxious.

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After I had written everything in my diary,I closed it and put it under my pillow.That's when I heard someone

 behind me.I looked and it was Astrid. I tried to hide the fact that my eyes were red and puffy from crying 

but she had seen it.She had seen everything.She had seen what I had wrote in my diary.She was awake the 

whole time.I sat up."I guess you think I'm a freak now".But she hugged me and I had never felt so loved.I 

hugged back and then I heard,"I know what it feels like to be pregnant at a young age".I never knew that the 

girl who had always stayed quiet all the time had been pregnant at a young age.It made me so shocked.