My Sister's New Troubles {One-Shot}

Has anyone ever told you how bad it is to be a teenage parent? That you're not ready to provide a loving home for that child? How it is irresponsible to get pregnant in the first place?1

Those are the things I wish I could tell my sister. I want nothing else but to slap some sense into her but it's too late. I feel like I could have done something to stop this when I found out she was sexually active. But the question is, would she actually listen to her thirteen-year-old sister? My older sister, Corinne, was a pregnant teenager at sixteen. I would be an Auntie at fourteen.2

She told me about the pregnancy first. I guess it was one of those things she could tell a younger sister. She had asked me if I could keep a secret for just over a few hours. I said as long as it didn't involve her on drugs, I was fine with it. When she told me she was pregnant with her boyfriend of only three and a half months, I got up from my bed and began to walk down the stairs. She yelled to remind me that I had promised not to tell and I told her I wasn't going to. It was something she had to tell Mom and Dad.3

I laid in my bed that night listening to her cries as she told our mother down on the second floor. I couldn't help but cry myself. Corinne wasn't ready for this sort of thing. She was a party-person; the life of the party. Of that, I was sure. Just as much as she wasn't ready to be a mother, I wasn't ready to be an Aunt. I was only thirteen! And I was going to be fourteen when the baby was actually born.4

That night, I did something I only do when I need God's help, but I wish I did it more often.5

"God, please give us the strength to get through this. I never pray, but I really need you right now. Corinne really needs you. Please help us. Jesus Lord, Amen."