The Way It Goes

There was this girl.
An extraordinary girl.
Who went to church every week.
And was beat by her father when she did something wrong.
Her parents followed the rules of god.
Keeping her from friends because they didn’t trust her.
She was their sacred little child.
Than there was that night in June, when she thought she knew what love was.
She went out without her parents knowing with the boy of her dreams.
He was the punk rocker type of boy.
One that her parents surely wouldn’t approve of.
He smoked weed.
He drank.
He was everything her parents didn’t want her to be.
He parked his truck a block away.
She snuck out her bedroom window and ran to the truck as fast as she could.
They took off with a cigarette in his mouth.
She choked at the smell of it, but just to be rebellious, she asked him for one.
She took her first drag.
She was hooked.
He said they were headed out to a party on the beach.
She said she was uncomfortable.
He said she’d feel better after she’d had a couple beers.
They had got to the beach just in time.
The party was just hitting its peak as they arrived.
He introduced her to all his friends.
His friends were the kids she generally avoided at school.
They welcomed her in and gave her a beer.
She went and sat down wondering if she should drink it or not.
Later on that night she was on her 5th bottle,
When the boy comes up and starts to kiss her.
She doesn’t realize what’s going on,
Until it goes too far,
And she can’t tell him to stop.
She woke up the next morning right next to the boy.
They were in a house that was unfamiliar.
Her head was throbbing and she felt nothing else.
Than it all hit her,
What she had done.
She looks to her left to see the boy that she slept with.
He was looking right back at her.
He asks her if she’s alright.
She answers yes and scrambles for her clothes.
He says he’ll take her right home.
She agrees only because she doesn’t know where they are.
They get in his truck and he starts back to her house.
The radio calls out for a missing girl.
She cries out as if in pain.
He asks if she’s alright.
She said no.
But she needed to get home.
They arrived at her house about an hour later.
Her parents yell and scream and her dad hits her.
She smells like alcohol and cigarette smoke.
They’re perfect child has a ruined reputation now.
She is put in her parents so called isolation.
She cannot leave even to go to school.
A few weeks later she is forgiven,
But forced to go to confession to wash away her sins.
Another two weeks pass, and she remembers what happened that night.
It hits her like a stinging slap in the face.
She realized something.
And she could never tell her parents.
That she was pregnant.
The first place she runs to is the boy.
She runs out against her parents will and run as fast as she can.
She makes it there.
Panting and sweating like she’s been running a twenty-six mile marathon.
He asks her what’s wrong.
She tells him she’s pregnant.
She cries.
He takes her in his arms and tells her everything is ok.
He told her he’d stay with her through it all.
She than realized what love was.
She pulls herself away from him and said she hears sirens.
Her parents sent the cops to find her.
He takes her in his arms again, and carries her to the truck.
They take off trying to make it past the state line.
They hit ninety when the get on the freeway not seeing the hairpin turn.
He’s too late.
He swerves to the left but fishtails over the cliff.
The next thing she hears is the boy scream.
Then all goes black.
When she wakes up next all she sees is white.
She is wrapped in bandages head to toe.
She starts to scream.
A nurse comes in and explains what happened.
She had just got of life support,
So the nurse tells her the story.
She says there was a nasty wreck.
And the boy she was with had died for her.
He pushed her out of the car in the nick of time.
And the baby she had was now lost from the fall.
Her parents walked in just at that time.
And asked her what the hell she was thinking,
To run off with a boy that couldn’t be trusted.
She gets so sad than feels really weak.
Than she says,
“It’s now time for me to sleep forever”