At 14, Camille’s trajectory moved off track. Through peer pressure, rejection, desperation, mis-understandings, and loneliness she left home for a life on the streets. At that time a police officer told her she would end up a prostitute by the time she was 16. She would prove them VERY wrong. A heart warming story of recovery.
A short story for young adults which gives parents, social workers, teachers a message to never give up hope, and for teens/young adults a message that you can turn your life around, it is never too late.
Based on a True Story
Sample Text from Off Track
At the end of year nine at high school, Camille’s life changed. She had drifted away from her school friends after a close schoolmate turned the group against her. With no one to turn to, the situation seemed insurmountable to a teen. She felt she couldn’t talk to anyone. Parents would not understand – who tells parents anyway? Friends were not speaking, brother – not an option.
She searched for solutions, casting out feelers far and wide. Misery congregates, and she found what she thought was her solution – friendship with less favourable characters. Introducing her to more alcohol and new drugs. The start of a downward spiral.
As year ten arrived her mind was a mess. School was a place of pain. A struggle. Out of school was an escape but she contemplated consequences. She was in inner turmoil. She fought constantly with her parents, and wagged more and more classes. Late was an excuse that her bike had a flat tyre, or the chain broke. Skipping a few hours, then whole days. The spiral continued.
Her parents noticed deterioration in her school grades and tried to be stern. But what was enough, what was too much? Parenting is never easy. One brief decision can change a life. And then it did.
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