Status: Short Story!
Jocelyn Edwards' Journal
Entry Three
August 16, 2004
Today is my sixteenth birthday. Instead of a new car, like a normal teenage girl, i get two new bruises added to my collection. They're getting so much harder to cover up. I got a letter from James today-finally. The only 'Happy Birthday!' I received today. He promised he'd be home for Christmas and he'd take me away from all of this pain, at least somebody cares. I'm not sure if I can do this anymore, though. He says he'll come and take me away, but what if he gets stuck with his platoon in Iraq, and can't come? What if something worse happens to him? No, that will NOT happen. I will hold on to this little spark of hope. Hope is all I have now, and I will not let that slip.
Today is my sixteenth birthday. Instead of a new car, like a normal teenage girl, i get two new bruises added to my collection. They're getting so much harder to cover up. I got a letter from James today-finally. The only 'Happy Birthday!' I received today. He promised he'd be home for Christmas and he'd take me away from all of this pain, at least somebody cares. I'm not sure if I can do this anymore, though. He says he'll come and take me away, but what if he gets stuck with his platoon in Iraq, and can't come? What if something worse happens to him? No, that will NOT happen. I will hold on to this little spark of hope. Hope is all I have now, and I will not let that slip.
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Oh and by the way i would NEVER take any abuse anymore. or let someone treat my sister for that matter!