Judgement Cont. If you haven't read my first post entitled 'Judgement', you'll need to read it to understand this. It has been the craziest week for me and for my friend. I have made the personal and dangerous decision to help her out in any way that I can, and that has included me taking a bus to her house every morning at 8:30 and checking up on her. I discovered her real financial problem and it is really starting to get me worried. Honestly, I can't see a way that she is going to be able to raise a child, go to school, and pay for herself and the kid. Of course she could drop out of school, but she has already refused that option. Her parents haven't been in the country for over a year, the adult that is supposed to check up on her and help her out hasn't been around for a long time, and her money is running tight. She get's checks and letters from her parents every three or four months, and it's not that much money that she gets either. I am barely starting to understand the stress level this girl has all the time. On top of all that she does have a job doing some web design. It's not very good, and she knows that, because she can't afford very good programs so she is limited. Everyone, here is the crazy thing I had to propose to her. I had to ask if abortion was on the table right now. I know what you might be thinking, what was wrong with me? But it did, at the time, seem like that might be the only solution, at least until her parents got back late next year. Let me tell you all how scary a pregnant and very stressed teenager can be when you mention something that she has been thinking about and dreading ever since she found out she was pregnant, and how angry she can get when I mention it. Abortion was immediately off the table. So I decided that we had to take this one step at a time. He had just barely turned 16 but she didn't have a license. She either had to find another job, or she needed to improve herself on her current one. She did kind of agree. At least I think she did, she was watching a movie while I was telling her that. Anyways, I have an uncle who works for Adobe, so I bought a few licenses off him for about half price and I put those programs on her computer. She now had photoshop and dreamweaver, both of which would help her with her current job. One problem slightly down. Here comes the crazy part. The part that would be the hardest. But let me tell you this now guys, it was amazing to see. She showed up on Monday on the same bus as me. My friend Kelsie, the girl in 'Go Out And Make Somebodies Day', sat behind us. The two ladies quickly became friends, which was awesome, seeing as how this girl really needed the support right then. And then one of the football kids sat next to Kelsie (American football, just to clarify, I know there's a lot of British awesomeness people on here), and let me tell you, he was intimidating. I quickly found out that he was just a big teddy bear. We talked on the bus all the way to school, and I was starting to think our situation was going good. Well, we walked through the front door and most of the sophomores crowded in front of us. They saw us and started to yell a crap load of terrible things. We couldn't make it past most of these things because they wouldn't let us through. We went outside and a small crowd of seven followed us out. They were all some of the idiots that had been rude to me and Kelsie for a while, and now they were spreading over to this girl (her name's Madie, I don't want to say 'this girl' anymore). Madie was in tears and was begging us to let her go home. That's when this football kid, and maybe six of his other senior buddies, walked out the front door. Just three days previous to this they had crushed one of our neighboring cities, and we all knew it too. They walked straight out towards us and stood behind the seven guys that were still talking crap, completely unaware that these huge beasts were standing behind them. They all grabbed each of the kids, picked them up, threw them over their shoulders, and walked into the principals office (we heard about it later from them), dumping them inside of a faculty meeting and they explained what was going on and what the kids had done. These football kids walked out again and personally escorted us all inside. We all took Madie to class first, but by then the varsity quarterback was already holding her in his arms, and we let her teacher know what was happening and we told her not to leave until we got there. We repeated this until the end of the day. The football team all took her out to lunch at subway and we had a great time. Guys, before this I thought that we would have the hardest time being there and that we wouldn't be welcomed back at all. But this amazing group of guys, who I thought would only add to the trouble, became our saviors. They helped us out all of this week, and then helped out some more. They came to Kelsie's house and made her dinner, they took her to the football game and had her run out onto the field with them when we won the game, and then escorted her home. I owe each of those guys a huge thank you, one that I might never be able to give them. They're being so kind, so good, so considerate, even when it wasn't their problem and the whole entire school, their kingdom of popularity, would've been against them if they helped. But they did. Everybody, the world is just a place that we live. Of each of us could do but a fraction of what has been done for Madie for other people around us, we would be so much better! I truly believe that now. Step up and find the courage to help others, no matter what the cost is. And hope that the people around you can have some courage too. Jake West