Amber- 12 Years Ago
I met Vickie soon after I arrived at the park with all my belongings in a backpack slung over my shoulder. She was about my age, tall, skinny, and spoke real fast. At first I feared her and the pack of runaways she was hanging out with. I’d been homeschooled, kept away from other kids most of my life while my parents trained me for the ministry. When they found my diary hidden under the floorboards of my closet, they discovered my secrets, the biggest one being I didn’t believe in God. Oh, and that I thought Erika, the worldly girl next door I wasn’t allowed to talk to, was beautiful. Within twenty-four hours I was on the streets.
There was a boy in our church named Daniel who vanished three months earlier. Hushed voices I overheard in the church office confirmed my s
