Most girls on their 16th birthday,
Are excited and happy.
They get their license,
Go out to dinner with their families,
Or spend it with someone special or their friends,
But on her 16th birthday her mom went to the bar and she was left home alone.
Her present,
A pregnancy test.
She sat on the phone with her boyfriend,
Tears streaming down her face as she cried out how sorry she was,
Like a broken record she kept repeating to him how sorry she was,
How she wished she never went out drinking with that boy from school.
She didn’t know what he’d do to her,
He didn’t care what he did to her.
She sat in her broken home crying,
Repeating “baby I’m so sorry, you deserve so much better.”
He sat in his room with the music playing in the background,
Trying to hold together her world as it slowly shattered around her,
He wouldn’t leave, because he loved her.
He whispered into the phone in a soft soothing voice,
“It’s going to be okay baby girl; I’m not going anywhere because there’s no place I’d rather be.”
The tears from her eyes continued to flow like a waterfall,
But this time it wasn’t because she was upset, it was because he stayed when no one else would.
He’d help raise a child that wasn’t his,
A child that would forever have the words “RAPE CHILD” branded on its back so only its mother and her boyfriend could see.
A constant reminder of what happened,
She was scared and he was nervous,
But she couldn’t tell because he had to be her rock as she sat there,
In her broken home all alone.
He prayed that those two little lines wouldn’t show up,
If they did they’d both have to grow up so much faster than they needed to.
She exploded in anger,
“Go! Just go! This is my mess, you shouldn’t have to stay and help clean up my mess!”
He waited a few seconds and it was silent,
Then he spoke into the phone with passion in his voice and said “For better and for worse, through the storms of hell no matter how bad it gets, how tough things are I will stand by your side till the storm passes and when it does we will enjoy the sun’s rays together. Until we both wither away and we are no more but rotten flesh and dust in the wind.”
She cried tears of joy,
Then looked at the long white stick and said “I don’t want to look…”
And he said “That’s okay, you don’t have to right now. Just sleep, it’ll be there in the morning.”
At that point she realized that he knew it would be okay as long as they were together and that relieved her.
She said “Thank you for not leaving, I love you”
And with his nerves settled he told her “There’s no other place I’d rather be, I love you too baby girl.”
And for the first time all night she laid silent,
And things would be okay as long as they had each other.