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Emeli
There once was a girl that really struggled through her life, but she never really showed it. She was that kind of person that would make everyone smile and she would be the one smiling too , even though deep inside she was really broken. She couldn't do it anymore.
Her name was Emeli.
Emeli had to work hard everyday to support her family. She had to go out everyday and find any possible job she could in order to take money home to buy food and eat. If she really couldn’t find a job she had no other option but to sell herself too other man in order to get the money she needed.
Everyone judged Emeli because of the way she was, but no one really knew her background life at home. She was abused by her alcoholic stepdad. Emeli's mom knew that her step dad hit her daughter, but she never did anything about it. All her mom ever said was, “She probably deserves it!’.
Emeli’s way of getting away from all the pain and struggles was to go out with her friends and smoke cigarettes and weed and drink any kind of alcohol she could find.
One Friday night Emeli was really exhausted, so she decided to go out with her friends and not have a couple of drinks. She wanted to get really drunk and forget about all her problems. That night Emeli stayed up really late with her friends at the corner where they would always meet and got really drunk. It was already 3 a.m, and Emeli had to be home in order to take care of her siblings before her mother left for work. So Emeli decided to walk home.
On her way home she saw a guy in a red car by the corner store. The guy saw her too, and he went up to her to offer her a ride home. He was a really attractive. He had green eyes and a really fit body.
On their way home the guy was talking to her and asked, “Do you want to go my house and have a couple more drinks, dance for a while, and then maybe afterwards we can have sex and I will pay you?”
Emeli wasn't really sure if she wanted to have sex with him, but since that is what she was used to, she felt like it was normal.
“Sure,” she replied, “but about the other part, I'll have to think about it.”
As soon as they got to his house they started to drink and dance to a couple of songs.
After a few hours of dancing the guy asked her again, “So what do you think about what I offered you? Yes or no?”
Emeli didn’t want to, but she really needed the money to go buy food for her siblings to eat when she got home.
“Yes,” she simply replied.
When everything that had to happen happened they both fell asleep.
Next morning Emeli woke up and realized it was already late. She had no idea where she was. All she could think about was her mom screaming and her step dad hitting her for not being home on time to take care of her siblings.
A month later Emeli started to realize she had not yet received her menstrual cycle. She was tired of waiting, so she decided to go buy a pregnancy test. When she realized she was really pregnant she was scared. She didn’t know what to do all she could think about was her mom and how she was going to raise the baby. She was really worried and told herself that none of what was happening could be real. She couldn't have the baby. She couldn't bring it to the world to be suffering like her.
After walking home Emeli was still thinking to herself if what she had found out was really true. She still couldn’t believe it. So she decided to go the the park for a walk. While Emeli was already half her way to the park, she realized she had left the pregnancy test in the restroom and had forgotten her mom was already on her way home. Emeli ran as fast as she could to beat her mom home, but by the time she got home, it was too late. Her mom had already seen the pregnancy test.
“Can you tell me what this is doing in the restroom Emeli?” her mom screamed at her.
“Mom I can explain!” Emeli replied.
“It's too late. I’m calling your step dad!” her mom screamed back at her.
Within ten minutes her step dad was home. As soon as he found out that Emeli was pregnant, he beat her. He kicked her in the stomach as much as he could in order to kill her baby. All the stepdad and mom wanted was the baby dead. When the step dad noticed that hitting her wasn't helping he decided to leave her alone and let her do what she wanted. But in the end, he kicked her out of the house.
After much over thinking, Emeli decided to get an abortion as soon as she could. But she didn't realize that the abortion was going to cost a lot of money until she actually called and made an appointment. Once the price was revealed to her, she understood that she wasn’t going to be able to have the money as soon as she needed it. She became even more desperate and didn’t know what to do anymore.
A few more hours passed, and Emeli finally got through her head that at the end of the day she was going to have her baby. No matter what, she knew that if she waited longer to have her abortion taken care of it was going to be more expensive and more risky.
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It was a month later and everyone was at the funeral. All the people were wearing white and red clothes. They used the white to represent peace in the death and wore red to symbolize the love they had. There were red roses in front of the caskets but there wasn't only one there were two.
Emeli had died and not only her so did her baby. What her mom and stepdad had wished for had become true. The baby died, but so did Emeli.

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