Samantha's Life Turned Upside Down Samantha was just your average 17 year old, Her cell phone was not only her life- her entire universe revolved around it, but little did she know that it would be her precious phone that would change her teenage life forever. She was an attractive girl, her dyed blonde hair went barely past her shoulders and her blue eyes were so deep that you could lose yourself in them like the deepest of oceans. She wasn’t exactly a “skinny” girl like the rest of her classmates, but she wasn’t fat either and her smile could warm to anyone’s heart and melt even the coldest. It was a warm mid-spring Friday morning and the sun was splitting the sky. As Sam bounded down the stairs in her regular happy and bubbly mood, she was met with the sight of her parents doing what most parents do in the morning, sipping on their first coffees of the day that were their morning wake up calls whilst reading through their eyes into the world beyond theirs, the newspaper. Sam’s Dad looked up from his paper and gazed at his joyful daughter, he knew the news he had for her would upset her gleeful mood for the rest of the weekend. “Sam, you remember me and your mother discussed going on a camping trip awhile back?” He didn’t wait for her response but allowed her a little time to recall the discussion. “ Well because we’ve been getting such good weather these past couple of weeks we’ve decided to move it to this weekend, which unfortunately means you will have to babysit Gemma and Tommy for the next few days. We will be leaving this afternoon.” Samantha looked between her father’s stern face, one which she never liked to mess with, and her mother’s expression of pity. They had dropped this on her so suddenly that she already knew how Sam would react. “But dad, I had plans this weekend! …but everything was about to change
