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A BITTERSWEET END

Savannah Lebreton

Everyone knows how high school sweethearts turn out, ending in divorce and ending up hating each other. But they were going to be different. They were going to be the ones to make it and stay together. They were in love, and they had been together since she was 16. There may have been an age difference, but it was 2 and a half years, and that did not matter to them. They had both gone through a lot from his parents divorcing when he was young and them both losing family members. It made them special that they could understand each other’s trauma. Even through all their arguing, they had one common denominator: their baby girl. She got pregnant at 19 and gave birth at 20. People looked at her weirdly for having a baby before marriage, but she did not care because every time she looked at her, she smiled. Many people thought they were a perfect little family, but they had a huge secret. They started dating in high school, and she thought they would be together forever even throughout the drama. She was wrong, and the neighbors heard fighting down the halls of their apartment complex. It made her feel like a nobody, and one day he did the worst thing he could ever do. He called her with a shakiness in his voice saying he did what he promised to never do. “I cheated” were the words that came out of his mouth, and she went speechless. Was she angry? Was she upset? She did not know, but she knew she wanted to hang up the phone, and she did. She realized that they blindly ignored all their problems, and they were coming back to hit her like a school bus. She sat in the house staring at their picture frames on the walls that made them look like the perfect family but she knew they weren’t. It was all a front for their arguments where objects were thrown and they both cried. He would scream at her at the top of his lungs and she would just sit there in fear, crying. She grabbed all of her daughters things and put it in a suitcase. She smiled as she realized she would never have to go back to this house and the car left the driv way. She got to her parents house and never thought about him again. She was finally free. She never thought she would get away but she did. Her and her daughter were happy on their own and every time that he called her phone, she would just turn the other way. Eventually, she got the courage to answer and she told him she wanted a divorce. She was a good mom and could do everything on her own. There was no yelling anymore, no fighting, no breaking glasses or frames, it was peaceful which is all she ever wanted.