Today in English class, my teacher Mr. Huggins had asked the class if we knew any one who done anything ridiculous for love and regret it. I silently raised my hand because I had done one thing ridiculous for love and I regret it greatly. But to tell this story, then I must tell it from the beginning.
It all started when I was in the seventh grade, I liked this girl named Madeline Carpenter. I asked her out with in a week of knowing her but she told me that her parents would not let her date until she was six- teen years old. I respected her parents' demands and I waited two years. With in those years I had moved to North Carolina with my mom but in the summer of 2008 I moved back to New York. I got reconnected with Madeline and we hit it off in August of 2008. We went out for two years solid until that unforgettable day. I was at the library and was how Madeline was doing and I clicked on her Facebook page. What I found was heart breaking, depressing, and unforgivable. She was cheating on me with another guy at her school. The only thing I could tell myself was that I wasn't the best that I could be. At that point, I cared less what happened to me. I being abused by my father and step mother through out the years that we were going out. The only thing that kept me from taking my own life or running away was the love that I felt for Madeline. So I went through two years of abuse on top of a broken heart and the only thing that I could think was that something good will happened. It wasn't until my 18th birthday that I was able to get out of that house I call hell and start living my life.
In the end result I regretted ever moving and regretted more by giving a false lover my heart and having it played like a fiddle. But because of what I went through, I learned from it and became the man I am today. Thank God for second chances.