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Dreams do come true

March 16, 2022
By ruizjas004 BRONZE, West Jordan, Utah
ruizjas004 BRONZE, West Jordan, Utah
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Natalie walked into her parents house with a bouquet of flowers for her mom. She looked at the wall full of pictures. The amount of memories and fun times that were on the wall was astonishing to her. Her mom, Mary, captured every single little moment. Every single little moment. Natalie and her siblings would always get upset at how many times their mom would take out her phone and say “Get ready. Say cheese!” Natalie, out of all of the kids, was still glad she did because they wouldn’t be able to look at all the memories and smile. They were the type of family that always wanted to be together and have fun. Natalie cherishes her parents so much. She knows how much they have suffered for them to have the life they do. They don’t have tons of money. They don’t have the prettiest house or the prettiest things. They’ve lived this life since Natalie was 4 years old. Before that, it was exceedingly worse. They lived in Mexico, in a house they had to share with multiple people because they couldn't afford their own. When she turned 4 they moved to the United States. Natalie's parents' struggle taught them how to survive.

Natalie loves working hard and loves school. She is such a caring person. She just turned 21 and is graduating college with her Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She applied at a hospital for a new job so that she can utilize her degree. It’s been difficult but she's hoping she'll get the job. Her Fiance, Martin, is 20 years old. They have been dating since freshman year of high school. He supports Natalie immensely and pushes her to achieve all of her goals. He’s the boy he always dreamed of. Lucky for Natalie she has it all. He graduated from lineman school 4 months before Natalie graduated. They're a pretty successful couple. Anyone would think that buying a big house and a nice car would be Natalie's dream because of the income she will be getting but it's not. Her dream is to give her parents everything they ever wanted. She strives to give her parents the house and cars of their dreams. So that's exactly what she's going to do. 

Six months later, Natalie got her job and had been saving money. She saved just enough money to start looking at homes for her parents. The home that they would’ve never thought that they would live in. She wanted it to be absolutely perfect. She knew that they deserved absolutely everything in the whole world.

After many many hours of searching for the perfect home, she found the one. She went through the process of the paperwork. which took her about a couple weeks. After those couple weeks she finally got the keys and knew exactly how to show her parents. The next day after dinner, Natalie brought home some flowers for her mom and told her parents that she had a surprise for them. She proceeded to blindfold them. Her mom shivering with excitement told her, “what is it Natalie!? You’re scaring me.” Natalie replied with, “ there’s absolutely nothing you should be scared about, you're going to love it.” They pulled into the driveway, brought them in front of the house on the sidewalk and pulled off the blindfold. “OH MY GOODNESS!!!” said mama Mary. Her dad broke into tears and asked, “this is for us?” Natalie broke down into tears with them and gave them a speech. She explained how they deserve the world and how they pushed through everything to give them their world so now she wanted to do the same. mama Mary and her father have always thought about the dream home that they would drive past behind all the factories in the city. they never would’ve thought one would have been theirs. since it came from a small tiny house with many people to a humongous house for only the two of them. They were beyond shocked and grateful. Natalie has never felt more complete in her life. Natalie's last gift was a 50 rose bouquet of flowers. They represented all the love she has for them. 


The author's comments:

Hello! My name is Jasmine. Im 16 years old and live in Utah. This is a big step for me because I am very shy and do not like to put myself out there like this. I hope if you are reading this you feel the emotion of my characters. It is to show that parents always do so much for us and they have dreams still too.


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