Author's Note:
Based off the movie: MOM AT SIXTEEN
What would you do if your daughter came home pregnant? Would you kick her out of the house and tell her to find a place to live or get an abortion? Would you keep her at home and tell her to give the baby up for adoption? Or would you take of the baby and tell your daughter to go back to school and raise the baby as your own? WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
JACOB:
When Alicia told me she was pregnant, I didn't know what to do. I went beserk. I didn't tell my parents for fear they would stop paying for my college tuition. Even being with a sixteen year old and having consensual sex is considered statutory rape. I don't know what I was thinking. How could I be so stupid?
I stopped talking to her after that. She stopped calling after I told her to shut the F up. She knew that I wasn't ready to be a dad. But what made her ready to be a mom? Everything was getting way to Fed up. My family, we're Mormons; I couldn't let them know I had gotten a Christian pregnant. It is against our morals.
(AN-don't really know if it is or not, but it is usually against everyone's morals to get pregnant at sixteen whether your RELIGIOUS or not. Figured it went for all RELIGIOUS people. If I'm wrong, someone please tell me so that I can fix it.)
I figured if I stopped seeing Alicia this would all go away, I was wrong, dead wrong. Alicia's parents came to my house and had a little "chat" with my parents and they told them everything. Alicia's parents wanted to press charges against me, and my parents agreed. If they had known what we were doing, they said they would have stopped it. But they are hard workers, trying to put three kids through school and one through college.
Even though it was consensual, my parents still said I shouldn't have had sex with a sixteen year old let alone go out with one. And then they told Alicia and her parents something that I didn't want them to say. My parents told Alicia and her parents that Alicia wasn't the first girl to knock up, but it would be the last. Alicia realized why I had always been spending time with other women. And for some reason, my parents were willing to put me in jail.
They siad I couldn't keep my hands off younger women, especially sixteen year olds. They called the cops that night, but they never told Alicia to get an abortion like they had the other girls. The other girls had gotten the abortions because they knew they couldn't have a baby. For some reason, my parents thought Alicia could have a baby. I was livid. They now had a grandchild and I was going to jail. I ran from the house that night and was on the run. I went back to my dorm room first, grabbed a couple hundred dollars, some clothes, some CD's and batteries, my CD/MP3 player, 4 pairs of sunglasses, a couple blankets, and ran. I was on the bus within a matter of moments. I saw the police looking for me and they went on past the buses, not that thinking I'd be on one of them.
I had to get back at my parents and Alicia and her parents some how, I just didn't know how. The only picture I had was of the two of us. I never knew that her parents were planning on moving to a different city, with approval of my parents. If I had, I would have tried to stop them, but I wasn't fast enough. Oh, but I would catch up with Alicia some day or another and then she would pay.