Samantha is fifteenth years old, and a Freshmen in high school. No friends, no money, nothing, she has nothing. She goes to school, and she gets made fun of. The "cool" kids make fun of the clothes she wears. They say she shops at Goodwill, and that she stinks. The "popular" girls push her in the halls, and call her names. Samantha just keeps her emotions hidden. Everyone in the school, but a few, hate her. They could care less if she killed herself. They only care about themselves and their "cool" image.
Back home life is no better for young Samantha. Her mother yells at her, and her father beats her. The dad works a 50 hour a week job, and he takes the stress out on her. Her eighteen year old brother is the only thing in her life that makes her smile. He loves her and tries to take care of his little sister, the best that he can. He tried to get custody of her but the court said she was fine where she lived. She stays locked in her room all day, it is her sanctuary. Here she reads books, and listens to music. Anything to get her a way from her hell on earth, even for a second.
Samantha wonders what the point is of life. She is depressed, school is hell. Home is hell.... At school, Brad, the Quarterback, walks up to her and asks her to the dance. She says yes, but he responds "HA, like I would take YOU to the dance! You should just go kill yourself, you are worthless!" Everyone in the hall overhears and begins to laugh at her. She runs down the hall in tears.....
At home, her father asks her why she got a B on her Biology exam. "Samantha, you are a disappointment to this family, you are good for nothing!" He smacks her across her face. Her mother comes up and says "Samantha, you better get an A on your next exam, or you will be punished.. now go to your room, no dinner for you!" Samantha runs to her room and jumps on to her bed. She begins to sob as she covers her face in her pillows. Her fuse has been lit, she is a ticking time bomb now. She can do nothing right, no one likes her, why should she live another day?
She walks into the bathroom late at night, everyone in the house is asleep. Samantha opens the medicine cabinet and grabs her mothers bottle of Ultram. She opens the bottle and dumps the pills on to the sink. A handful is all it will take, she swallows 20 of them. One last glance at her reflection in the mirror.....
Samantha goes back to her bedroom, it will all be over soon enough. As she sits in her room, she begins to cry. Everyone want's her dead, so they will be pleased. Her skin starts feeling cold, and her young heart begins to slow down. She begins to feel lightheaded and dizzy, soon it will be all over. No more abuse from her family and those at her school. Samantha will no longer have to endure her hellish life.
Samantha tries to stand up, she can hardly move. She falls and hits the ground hard. As she looks up, she sees her phone. She tries to reach for it and eventually knocks it over. The phone crashes beside her, and she dials her brother. He answers, and knows right away something terrible has happened. He rushes over to the house and finds her unconscious on the floor. He picks her up in his arms and rushes her to the hospital, she cant die, she is too young to die, he says.
The doctor walks in to the waiting room and delivers the news to her brother, it is too late, she has passed on. Her brother begins to cry, but suddenly hears his name called out. He see's his father walking down the hall towards him. That bastard helped kill her, he says in his mind. "What happened, Jake? We saw you rush out of the house with Samantha in your arms, is she ok?" Jake stands up and approaches his father. "You killed her, you fucking bastard!" Jake reaches back and lays his father out with one punch. He gets on top of his father and beats him. Blood begins to spill out of his father's forehead. He has been busted open. Jake's mother yells for help, but by the time security gets to Jake, it is too late. His father lays on the floor in a pool of blood.
Jake is taken out of the hospital in handcuffs, this family has lost two tonight. Young Samantha took her life, and her father lost his. He deserved what happened to him, Samantha did not. Jake sits in the police cruiser, and cry's. He lost his little sister tonight, all because of her father. The father is dead too, but Jake feels he did the right thing.... tonight a family is torn a part, there will be no happy endings this time.
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