From Ashley Rogers' Diary
I'm seventeen, and I can't wait until I can get out of my parents' trailer. I feel so trapped here! Everyone looks the same, everyone thinks the same, everyone tells me what to do, how I have to think, how I have to be, and I just can't take it anymore. My parents say that I'm under their authority until I get married, but I don't want to get married. Look what my sisters got when they got married! More work, more babies, more people they need to please. I don't want that. I feel like I'm breaking.
Acklay Miller is the only one from church who understands me. I don't care that everyone at church thinks he's trouble, he's the only one who understands and we hang out when my parents make me go to church and to Youth Group. I just need one single person who doesn't talk about the Watcher all day every day!
Sneaking out at night into nightclubs gives me this tiny bit of freedom, but it's not enough. It's just not enough. I feel a bit better when boys give me attention and buy me drinks, but it's not enough. And when I go back home after a night away it hurts even more to be trapped again. But I don't want to stop.












