Johnny had been having a tough time in his life lately between his parents getting divorced, his girlfriend finding out she is pregnant, and trying to fit a job and school into his schedule. Johnny had felt as if he was as his breaking point and turned to marijuana to help him out and calm him down. Johnny had started smoking marijuana or weed once a week, then once a day, and then he started smoking multiple times a day. Johnny had begun putting smoking and his friends before both his girlfriend and his family. After a few months of smoking Johnny had quit his job and ran out of money to buy his marijuana, so he had began robbing houses and people of their things in order to pay for his bad habit. Things had just gone downhill from here and the more and more his girlfriend and family tried to help him, the more he had pushed them away and turned to his not-so-good friends. Johnny had begun to not care about his girlfriend, who was pregnant with his child and she wound up breaking up with him. This had not bothered Johnny at first, he actually thought it was a relief and that he could now go and party with his friends without being bothered. Johnny had started breaking more laws and getting himself into more legal trouble. Johnny had gotten himself locked up and the due date of his daughter was coming close. Johnny began to get scared and was especially scared that he was going to miss the birth of his daughter because he was locked up. He now realized all that he had done and that he should of treated Amber, his ex girlfriend better. Johnny now wanted to be back with Amber more than anything and to be able to raise their daughter together. Johnny called Amber from the prison; she answered, but was confused because they had not talked in about a month, “Hello? Johnny?”
“Amber, Listen to me, please! I’m really sorry for all that I’ve done and put you through, I really am! I’m changing, I promise you! I don’t want my daughter growing up without her father. I really want to be there for her, for both of you. Please Amber, just give me another chance. I can’t live my life without you” he had replied.
“Johnny, believe me, I love you so much. I’ve always loved you, but you wanted your time and space and I gave it to you. I’d love to see you change and to work us out, but I really can’t do this to myself again. I can’t sit around and worry about you anymore and especially worry if you’re going to be there to see Hayley be born or not. It’s really stressful for me and I just can’t deal with it again, I’m sorry…..”
“Okay, I understand and just know that I’m sorry and I’m really working on changing Amber. I really hope to be there for Hayley and you.”
Amber had cut Johnny off with saying, “I’ve got to go Johnny” and then she hung up.
After this call had ended Johnny was determined to change and to win Amber back. The next day Johnny had court and when he was sent home on house arrest after explaining to the Judge that his daughter was going to be born any day now and his plans to change and raise his family. The judge had given him one last chance and Johnny new that this could be the beginning of his new life and self. Johnny had never been this happy and as soon as he got home he called up Amber and asked her to come over. Amber came right over and the two of them had talked and cried for hours. Amber had decided to give Johnny one last chance, hoping to see a change in him. About a week after Amber and Johnny had gotten back together Hayley had been born. As soon as Johnny held precious, little Hayley he had began to cry and told Amber how glad he was to have been locked up and to have learnt his lesson about drugs. From that day on, Johnny had been clean and more focused on his family than anything else. Johnny had registered for classes in the fall semester at his community college and shown everyone the intelligent boy he could be. Nothing meant more to Johnny than Hayley and Amber and he took the right choice by dropping his friends and taking care of his family. Johnny, Amber, and Hayley had lived happily ever after and never had to deal with the horrible life they once had.