Telling Makes a Difference

I was living a teenager’s worst nightmare.  I thought my life had come to an end.  It all started one evening 6 months ago when I was lying on the couch, playing my Xbox.  My stepfather came out of my mother’s bedroom and into the room where I was playing.  He sat down beside me on the couch and started rubbing on my legs.  I was thinking to myself, “What is he doing?”  Before I knew what to think he grabbed me by the arm and dragged me into my mother’s bedroom.  He threw me onto the bed, took my clothes off, and got on top of me.  He held my arms down and while I was screaming he grabbed a pillow and put it over my face.  He told me that he would kill me if I told anybody.  He said that he wouldn’t be doing this to me if I was his biological daughter.  I started to cry because I thought of him as my real father.  I found out he was not the person I thought he was.

I thought about just killing myself, but if I had done that he could have hurt a lot of other kids.  It could have even been my little sister that he hurt.  I thought I was going to have to live the rest of my life being sexually abused, but one day my Mom and stepfather got into an argument and he left the house.  I thought to myself, “This is the perfect time to tell her”, and so I did.  My Mom called my Mamaw and we went straight to the hospital.  The people at the hospital called Social Services and I talked to them.  After we went home I stayed awake the entire night thinking he was going to come home.  A few days later I received a phone call telling me that he had been arrested.  That was the best day of my life because then I knew he couldn’t come and hurt me.

After that I started going to counseling.  I think it has helped me a lot.  My counselor has helped me more than anything.  She thought that I may need medicine for my depression, so I went to a doctor that put me on medication.  It seems like it helps me.  I just want everybody to know that if you are being sexually abused you don’t have to hold it inside you or let it continue. You can tell an adult and get help.  Life still goes on!

Sebrina