“The Life I Chose To Live”

Final

Tina was 15 years old when she had her little baby girl Heaven. Tina ran away from home when she was 14 years old. She quit school soon after she had her baby girl Heaven. Life soon became very hard for Tina. She was always a troubled girl but after she had little baby Heaven she began prostituting and striping at a strip club. It wasn’t long before Tina start using drugs and being out in the world.


 Tina was 14 years old when she decided to go to a party with a group of her high school friends. Being that Tina was only in middle school at the time, she went and the girls she thought was her friends left her there knowing, Tina had been drinking. After some time had passed being at the party, Tina notice that her friends were no where to be found. So she decided to sit on the couch and wait because she notices her head was spinning. Tina then hears this voice. “watsup! I’m Mike, whats yo name?” “Tina”, she replies. “You good lil mama? Come with me”. Tina says, “no, im waitin on ma friends”. “I know where they at”, Mike replied. Tina then gets up to follow Mike into the room where he claims Tina friends are. “where my friends at?” Tina says. “Just lay down, they went to the store, they cumin back”. So Tina lies down because she wasn’t feeling to well. Mike then brings Tina what she thought was an aspirin for her head ace. When the ambulance found her she was covered with blood and very badly bruised on her face and various parts of her body. 


All Tina remembers is waking up in a hospital barely can open her eyes but when she does she notice that her mother and grandmother was there. This made Tina feel really good inside. After recovering from the hospital, Tina moves back with her mother. Being that Tina is pregnant her mother wants Tina to not go out as much and be in at a decent hour. So she does for awhile but soon her being pregnant couldn’t keep her down for to long, so Tina runs away from home again. She starts stripping at this club called Chocolate City. But, soon after they find Tina is pregnant she was fired. After living in a hotel for a few weeks, Tina moves in with an old boyfriend (which was much older then her) she use to date for a while when she was in middle school.

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 Tina is now 15 years old and she has her new baby girl Heaven. Tina was very happy when she had her. She planed on giving baby Heaven everything she ever wanted. After heaven turns two Tina’s boyfriend kicked her out and she now has nowhere to go. So Tina as usual goes back to her mothers home to see if her and baby Heaven could live there. Tina then moves back in with her mother for a while but, it wasn’t long before Tina goes back into her old ways and moves in with a 30 year old man, who plans on taking care of her and baby Heaven. Everything was good he treated Tina like a queen and Heaven as his own daughter but after a while he became very mean. He made Tina start prostituting and took baby Heaven. He says if Tina tries to run away he would hurt baby Heaven. After prostituting for three years her and baby heaven finally gets away from him. Tina takes baby Heaven to her mother’s house and leaves her there because she doesn’t want her family to see her in the condition she’s in. Tina goes back into the world and start using much heaver drugs and prostituting. She was then arrested for prostituting, stealing and drugs and was sentenced for a few years. While in jail Tina had time to think over all the things that happened in her life. She gets her degree and plans on going to college and giving Heaven the best mother she never had for all those years she missed, after she gets out of jail.




 After returning home Tina didn’t get the kind of greeting she planed for from her daughter Heaven, but she now is enrolled in college to be a dental assistance and has a minimum wage job to help get her up on her feet. Tina plans to get an apartment for her and Heaven, which is now a teenager. Heaven feels she doesn’t know her mother and she don’t have a relationship with Tina. Heaven calls Tina’s mother which is Heavens grandmother mother. Hearing this breaks Tina’s heart but, she tries to pretend it doesn’t bother her. After a pass of time of hard work Tina is in a position where her in heaven can live together and be able to built there relationship so they can live a happy and comfortable life. Heaven decide to try out the new transformation and she does for a while. But than decides to move back with her grandmother and says she no longer wants her mother Tina to be apart of her life because of all the pain and heart ace Tina put her through. Tina fights for a relationship with Heaven but as the years pass they’ve grown to know one another. But Tina and Heaven never got to have the mother and daughter bond like most mothers and daughters have. Till this day Tina still fights for a better mother and daughter bond with Heaven and hopes one day Heaven opens up her heart to forgive her so they can have the relationship Tina always dreamed of.