"A Door To Light"

Another story i made =P hope you guys enjoyed it. x)

A Door to Light

Samantha was 11, when her father died. It broke her heart to not see him again when she normally does because she was just so close to him. She never smiled. Her face was empty. It was tough! When you look into her eyes, it’s as if it’s hollow. Her mom was very sad and very hurt as well. Because of that, she became very quite and self centered, since there was no one that tries to cheer her up.

Three years later, Samantha’s mom married another man who was someone that was not who she expected to be. Her step dad on the other hand, doesn’t really care about her. He married her only because he loves her, not because of Samantha. Samantha is a very shy girl.

“Daddy…” she said to her step father with all the courage that’s left.

But then, her step father wasn’t too happy about it.

“I’m not your daddy.” He replied.

From that day on, Samantha never became close to her father. She’s trying, but every time she remembered about it, she can’t do anything. All she did was backing off. Sometimes, Samantha would struggle to get through each day. Because she felt embarrassed with that event, she tries to put her life back together by studying and talking to people.

Growing up was tough for Samantha. She comes from a broken family and eventually reached a point where she couldn’t stand to stay at home sometimes. There were times that she stayed at her friend’s house and there were times where no one seems to know where she is. It’s like as if she has been swallowed by this world or something. It was hard for her when staying at a friend’s house because she felt jealous with the happy families their friends have, and that she shouldn’t be bothering them.

Most of the time, Samantha would feel that no one seems to care about her. Because of that, she would try on some new things. One of them was smoking and drugs. As we all know, drugs can be very addictive. Because Samantha didn’t have any money, she would steal her friends’ things and trade them to some drug dealer for some drugs. You don’t think of it as stealing when it happens like that. But it was, of course. Samantha was 13, but looked somehow older. She started to realize that if her friends found out about this, they wouldn’t be very forgiving; especially, when it’s for something bad.

There was a lot Samantha had to learn, like with the drug dealers. You have to ask to see their money before you exchange things with them. You have to lay down the law. You have to make sure that the drug dealer comes alone. The first time she met a drug dealer and just assumed the guy would pay her, but after I gave the thing that they wanted first, the drug dealer kicked me out of the car and called me a loser. There was nothing I could do.

It didn’t get any better. In fact, Samantha’s attitude got a lot worse. She just can’t stop. It’s so addictive that when she doesn’t do drugs in a day, she would try to kill herself! It was just the worst feeling she ever had.

Samantha tried to stop stealing. She swore she wouldn’t do it again, but she really needed the money or something expensive to get herself some more drugs. She tried stopping herself but it just kept going and going. Her life was basically messed up.

One night, Samantha had a dream. Her dream was about herself getting really sick because of drugs.

“Why have you become like this? Your life was good, but you’re the one who’s making everything so complicated.” Jesus came and talked to her.

The dream was just too weird. It was basically warning her to stop doing drugs or else her life would be some kind of rubbish. When she woke up, she was crying. She felt so stupid with what she has done to herself. Then, she prayed to God and asked Him to change her life so that she can be a better person in the future.

Now, Samantha is around 18 years old. She stopped at the age of 17. She became a very diligent student and trying to fix all the mistakes she had done in the past. She thanked God that the drug habit that she had didn’t lead her to prostitution. Basically, she is trying to recover what drugs almost stole from Samantha - her future.

-stePh-