Sammy's Short Story

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Have you wondered what it’s like to not have a say in anything? To have chains wrapped around you? To be silenced without reason? To stare blankly at the white walls and if they were to speak they would scream. There was once a young girl who lived that life until the age of nineteen.Her name was Sammy and she was born and raised in Virginia. Her family went to church every Sunday and was baptized in the Catholic Church. Everyone always taught the Johnston family was nice and raised there children with good values.The boys were taught on how to treat a lady.Everything always seemed perfect with the Johnston family. No one would think that the white house with the white picket fence had so many secrets.
The house was under constant control
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He seemed nice enough and she just wanted to make friends. Well Sammy didn’t know he was a sex offender and charged with raping two young girls. After getting the news from her friend Kay, she tried to stay far away from him. Everywhere she went, he would follow. He started to blow up her phone and harassed all of her friends. Sammy went to the police and filled out reports. Kay mother soon got a wind of the situation and had called Sammy’s mother. She didn’t want her to know because she knew that she would take the situation way too far. Sammy was right, she did over bored. She thought she had the situation under control. While Sammy was in class, her mother had gone to the police and demanded the reports. While waiting for her mother to come and get her, Brian and his friends had shown up. They had a baseball bat and threatened to hit Sammy. She never felt so scared in her life. The guy had her pinned up against the wall and tried to rape her.Sammy screamed and people came outside to see what was going on. As she turned her head, she was hit by his friend and thrown to the ground. The guys ran off and Sammy couldn’t believe what just happened. When told what happened, Sammy mother was infuriated. If she thought she was on lockdown before, it was nothing compared to what she was about to go though. Her phone was taken and she couldn’t leave. Her mother had taken the house phone down and put deadbolts on the

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