Tim W.

Pennsylvania

It all started when she was eight years old,her brothers did it. So she thought she was cool like her brothers. Even though they picked on her she still liked them. She grew to be 15 years old,and she smoked 1 pack a week. Her brothers found out something new "DRUGS", but at the time they didn't know it would ruin there lives forever.
My mom quit about a year ago and she said it wasn't healthy for her. She tried and tried but she couldn't stop, she told me how hectic it got sometimes and she said if I go on smoking to tell me to get help. I didn't want my mom to go to classes to get help.
She said we might move to make a new life were going to move to Tennessee. She said it will change our lives and well get new friends, but well stay in contact with our old ones to, just not as much. She said she already has a new house and a new job that pays well, but you will have to say goodbye to them. Luckly I got a break and she met someone and they liked each other so he would come over to our house when I and my brother would go to my dads for the weekend. I never realy met him till we went to his house to meet his parents. They were nice people although I only saw his mom his dad died earlier that year. It was 1997 when my mom got a job at Turkey Hill Minut Market and she was trying to keep away from smoking, but she was even closer to it now. It was sometime in November that we got a call from the police that my moms boyfreind mom died she started to cry in the kitchen I ran in and said whats wrong she said shes dead.
It was year since my mom and future step dad been together. It was in the summer when my stepdad said he was thirsty and he wanted a drink so I walked to Turkey Hill were my mom works and it only takes me about 7-8 mins. to get there. So I turned the corner and I saw the last thing I would ever see again. My mom was sitting on the curve smoking a ciggarite and she turned to get up and she saw me standing at the corner and she said I'm sorry its been a bad day and I needed a smoke. She saw that I was mad and angry