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When I was fifteen, life couldn't have been better. I had the perfect boyfriend. I was making straight A's. Life was grand. The day everything changed was when I realized I had missed my period. I thought it was stress, at first. The second month came around, and I began to think something was wrong with me. I never thought I was pregnant, though. I couldn’t have gotten pregnant. People like me didn’t have kids. So I denied the truth, until some caring friends went to a close teacher and told him my problem.

I hadn’t told anyone except for those friends. The teacher confronted me about it and all I could do was cry. This was for real... I was going to have a baby. After talking to my teacher for a long time, he made me promise to tell my mom within two days. The two days had passed and I made no efforts in telling her. I did write her a letter. I was so scared. So finally, the day was here, where my teacher would know I didn’t tell my mom. He made me go into an empty room. I requested my friends come with me for support. He called her up and told her. The wait for her to answer the phone was so agonizing. Finally, she answered and he flat out told her, your daughter is 5 months pregnant.

The conversation lasted maybe 2 minutes. She immediately hung up and was on her way to get me from school. I waited and waited, for what seemed an eternity. My heart was thumping out of my chest. What was my mother going to do? How could I have done something so stupid? She came. I was scared for my life. She ran towards me and hugged me like I had never been hugged. She had tears streaming down her face. We left, holding hands. When we got home, she told me she was disappointed, but still loved me. After I told her, I knew everything was going to be okay.

The point of this story is that when I got pregnant, I searched for all possibilities to get out of it. My boyfriend had broken up with me and had turned against me. I thought that my life was over, when it really wasn’t. We had to decide what to do with the baby. We had the choice of adoption, or keeping the baby. As I became bigger and bigger, a bond between me and the unborn baby had begun. I knew that giving this baby away to another family was definitely not the answer. Once I had the baby, my life completely changed. Not for the worse, but for the better. I now have a love for someone that is so extreme!

You can still achieve all your goals and aspirations. If anything, having a child makes you strive harder to achieve it. I am now a senior in high school, making good grades. My advice to all the girls who seem to face the same thing I did is to please think twice. What you think may be the right decision, will probably not be. If I had chosen to have an abortion, I know that I could not live on. It would haunt me forever. Taking care of a baby is hard, but not impossible. Please set aside what you think is right for you, and think about what is right for the baby. These big decisions will affect the rest of your life.