Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul On Tough Stuff (2010)
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul On Tough Stuff
“Martin Luther King, Jr.
The doctors started to rush into the room. The delivery was going smoothly, but to me it felt like hysteria. The walls were a chalky gray like the wall of a jail cell. It wasn’t the best setting for Jamie’s labor, but it would have to do. Jamie was only a seventeen-year-old junior in high school. And now she was giving birth. She lay back in pain. Her only movements consisted of shaking her head from side to side, in an effort to escape the pain.
I took Jamie’s hand, comforting her and trying to soothe her agony. Her eyes opened, and she looked at me. Our eyes met, and suddenly I felt every emotion I have ever known. I always knew Jamie would challenge me to better myself; however, I didn’t think it would entail being her sidekick during her pregnancy.
All this began on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve, 1997. I sat in Jamie’s basement awaiting the urgent news she had to tell me. She collapsed onto the couch and told me how she had broken up with her boyfriend, E...ric, who had left the country to study abroad.MoreLess
The doctors started to rush into the room. The delivery was going smoothly, but to me it felt like hysteria. The walls were a chalky gray like the wall of a jail cell. It wasn’t the best setting for Jamie’s labor, but it would have to do. Jamie was only a seventeen-year-old junior in high school. And now she was giving birth. She lay back in pain. Her only movements consisted of shaking her head from side to side, in an effort to escape the pain.
I took Jamie’s hand, comforting her and trying to soothe her agony. Her eyes opened, and she looked at me. Our eyes met, and suddenly I felt every emotion I have ever known. I always knew Jamie would challenge me to better myself; however, I didn’t think it would entail being her sidekick during her pregnancy.
All this began on the afternoon of New Year’s Eve, 1997. I sat in Jamie’s basement awaiting the urgent news she had to tell me. She collapsed onto the couch and told me how she had broken up with her boyfriend, E...ric, who had left the country to study abroad.MoreLess
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