My Experience

My experience

It all began last year. My friends and I were big partiers and we didn't

really take life seriously. My best friend CARA, experienced it the most. She was

always overwhelmed with the extreme pressure from her family, to be very smart,

with reflecting grades, and a perfect GPA.

She started seeing this guy and they got pretty close. After a couple

months of dating, they decided they should have sex. About a month later, she

called me on the phone and had some pretty unexpected news. She was

pregnant. Her boyfriend was a bad ass and I knew that he wouldn't stay with her

once he found out. She was in tears and couldn't stop worrying about what her

parents would think.

Well she kept it hidden a couple more weeks, then decided to tell her

boyfriend. I was right. He dipped out when times got rough and only agreed to

stay with her if she would get an abortion. That wasn't on her mind. If anything

were to happen, she wouldn't get an abortion.

So when it was time to tell her parents, they didn't exactly deal with it the

way that I had thought. They threw her out and told her to never come back. She

was hysterical. I came and picked her up at the corner seven-eleven. She looked

awful, her mascara was smeared across her cheeks and her eyes puffy and red,

she picked up her red suitcases and started for our car.

The ride was completely silent, like time was stopped and everything

seemed like from that moment on, nothing could ever get better. The next day we

stayed home from school, as we had a meeting with my mom to figure out what

was the future step we had to make. We came to a conclusion that she had to

stay with us, at least until the baby was born. We would let her stay in one of the

guest rooms and take care of her while we both going to school.

Rumor got around and before you know she was called the slut and she

got released from the cheerleading squad. She felt completely hurt. There was a

part of me that wanted to take all the humiliation for her, but the best I could do

was try my best to make her feel at home with me and try to help her see a

brighter future.

The year got better and we started buying baby clothes and helping her

get ready for the baby. Our closest friends threw her a huge baby shower at my

house. It was so beautiful. The whole room decorated with pink ribbons and

present for CARA. We had been all very close before, getting ready for parties

together and dances. I could tell that lately in the past she felt left out, not being

able to really anywhere, without being ridiculed, but it was different that day, with

all of us together again.

She had really changed my life, being my room mate. It was neat always

having