She had wandered around on the streets for a week. Luckily, she had enough money with her to buy food and pay a place to spend the night. She was walking down a street when she had found this building. It was a shelter for pregnant women that were in danger. She could stay here until her child was a month old then she had to leave again. She tried not to think about what would happen after that. She really had no clue where to go.

She had found a job as cleaner in the art gallery of Peggy Peabody. She hoped she had enough money when her baby was born, to rent some small studio. She loved to being surrounded by art. It had always been her secret passion. Since she was about 14 years old, she wanted her own gallery. She was 19 now and knew her life was far from over but she did not see herself going back to school.

She was now 4 months pregnant and her bump was showing. She had had an ultrasound with the gynecologist and she was having a little girl.  On one hand, she was amazingly happy that she was having a girl but on the other hand, she was scared what her daughter would be going through in her life. She was scared she would get hurt or would become trapped in a similar situation as she was in right now. She decided the moment she found out that she was pregnant; she would do everything to protect her kid.

She was deciding what name her girl would get and it had to have a meaning. Nayeli Brigitte was what she loved the most. Nayeli means ‘I love you’ and Brigitte means ‘Powerful or strong’

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Tina walked inside the shelter with a valise in her hand. She hoped that this was a safe place where she could bare and give birth to her children. Children, because she had found out she was having a twin.

She sat down in the waiting area; a woman had told her to sit here until someone called her to bring her to her to her room. She thought back at how she had become trapped in this situation…