Jacqueline J. Chavez's life story

One Saturday morning I was getting ready to go to church for my cousin's wedding. My husband and I were leaving the house when i started having contractions. My husband took me straight to the hospital and stayed there with me but i had told him to go to the church and told them why i wasnt going able to go plus i was better off without him being there. so he left to the church came back around 1 p.m. that same day and came into the room and he looked surprised because the baby wasn't born yet. so he was there for about 2 hours and then he got hungry and told me that he was going to go downstairs to the cafeteria to go eat something. it was 4:37 when the baby was born, the doctor had told me that i was a girl and they had taken her away to get her cleaned up. about 20 minutes later my husband [Felix] got there and asked if the baby was born already i had told him yea not that long ago. he asked what it was , as soon as i told him it was a girl he had a huge smile on his face. The nurse and the doctor came with the baby and asked for the baby's name, my husband and i decided to name her Jacqueline from our favorite actor, Jazmine because that was his favorite name for a girl. later on that day my older sister came to see the baby she was so happy that the baby was born. she had told me that she wanted to leave the church as soon as Felix had said that i was at the hospital having the baby.

A year past by and jacky was getting bigger, we planned a small birthday party since we didnt have money because i wasnt working. i made the cake myself ,my sister Emelia and her husband came to see jacky since they were jacky's godparents. and so we were at the house for a while and then decided to go to the park for an hour or so. we all saw jacky grow day by day. she was getting older and was starting to look more like me.

the years keep going by. jacky turned five this year and i was pregnant, meaning that she was going to have a little one to play with at all timessince the older ones would really pay attention to her. at first she didnt really like the idea of having a little baby sister, when the baby was born she was so happy and she came to the hospital as soon as the baby was born she came running into the room and said can i pick her name, and so i asked what name does she like, she took a little while and said " it has to start with a J just like my name" and so she wondered "jessica" she shouted. "my friend's name is jessica and i like that name can the baby have jessica as a name?" and so i said i kinda like that name, so we went with it and she got it her way. as time past by jacky was the kind of person who care about everything and everyone, at times we thought she was a little too sensative. but we said it was ok she was going to grow out of it as time past.

she was doing very well in school she was a straight A and B student but when she got to 6th grade things started to change, she dropped her grade she stared talking back to me, she was always on the phone, and she would always get in trouble in school, this was one of the hardest years she had given us, she even had to go to summer school. but that didnt do it she would do anything it really looked like she was giving up in school. we were scared that she would just stop going to school one day. and so it started happening. she didnt get promoted which meant she had to repeat a year that day that they told her she had failed was the worst day ever to us her father was really mad at her, she got home that day and told us and her dad went crazy, he yelled at her and even got to the point where he had to hit her for her to straighten up.

the second year of 6th grade she was going pretty good but around december she had gotten in trouble once again. the school called me that same day and told me what had happened and asked me if i knew that she had a boyfriend. i couldnt believe it but i kinda thought it was my fault that she had never told me anything and that she was now keeping things away from us because i would never ask her bout things in life i would just be there in the house and when she tried talking to me i would ignore her at times. it was all coming back to me and now i didnt know what to do her father was at home that day and heard everything that the school had told me he was eating at the time and then just left the house i wondered where had he gone. he came back at night when jacky had just gone into her room he came in and went staraight into the room. i knew he was mad. the bad things was that it was a friday and that the had the next week off as winter break. her father was mad that day and told her to pack her things she really felt bad at this time she didnt know anything she didnt know what was going to happen he told her to get in the car and left he took her to her grandma's house and told her uncle that she was going to stay there for the week. as soon as she heard that she started crying, she wasnt going to be able to talk to her sisters or brother or mom. she was crying all day and would stop that whole week she came back home the next week the day before going back to school. she straighten out some what but was mad because of what her father had done to her so she ditched school a couple of days and got more in trouble but that didnt stop her.

i wanted all this to stop so i ended up taking her to a conselor and to people who where able to help her.that year was over . now when she got in 7th grade we saw those grades going up and her actions werea lot better. the teachers had called us to tell us that she was doing very good in school but that her attitude had to change, if her attitude changed they where going to transfer her to honors class and so she decided not to go to honors because she had met the friend that she really cared about and her name is alexia. they were together at all times, they were more like sisters. we took alexia with us everywhere we went out, and that is how jacky changed her whole attitude. and so i have to thank alexia for that.

this year she's in eight grade doing pretty good in school and now doesnt keep things away from us.and is now working on her school work and is eager to go to high school, and graduate and get a good carrier, according to her its more about making up the years that she mistreated us and to get us what we deserve.