Posted on Thursday, 8 November 2007

When I was younger, one day I was with my friend Emma, we were walking along past Woolworths and Emma said “let’s go in and have look”, so we did. We saw something we liked but it cost ten pounds and we only had a fiver between us, so we were wondering what to do, I then came up with the idea of nicking it.

So Emma said “yeah why not? We will only be doing it once.” How wrong she was! From then on we kept seeing a lot of things we liked, but we never had the right money so we just kept on taking them.

We knew it was wrong but we just couldn’t help it. We started to have everything we wanted, but we wanted more. When we were about nineteen there was a lot of things we had taken, but then we started to see things in people’s houses that we wanted and we just couldn’t help ourselves, we were breaking into peoples houses not giving a thought about them, and it started a massive crime wave. We got away with it, because people were thinking that girls don’t do that kind of thing.

Well we couldn’t stop ourselves and we tried, we tried hard, but we just wanted what other people had so badly. The worst thing about it was that we both had highly paying jobs, so people were thinking that we were buying all these things, but we weren’t

All our friends were getting sent down for stealing, but we weren’t because people still thought that we weren’t that type of girls. Then one day we went to an all night rave, and they were selling drugs. Emma said to me “we have loads of money.” So Emma got some. I didn’t really want to try them at first but then I got talked into it by Emma “It will only be the once.” She was also wrong about that.

We still had a lot of money because we were still stealing things from people. One day we stole a car. We had to change the number plates and re spray it and we had a nice little B.M.W.

Then we wanted to rob a Bank for some money for drugs, because we started to take them every 5 minutes. We spent about two weeks trying to make up our minds which bank to rob. So in the end we decide not to rob a bank. We would nick the money off our mums and dads, and we did.

Our mum’s just thought it was our big brother’s who was stealing their money, so we also got away with that. We went back to robbing houses, and we also got a promotion at work and that meant higher pay.

Then one day when Emma was in bed ill, I met this nice young man called William Darcy, and I got talking to him. I don’t know what happened I just told him about Emma and me. He said to me, “Do you want to stop?” and I said, “Yes of course I do.” So he said, “Aright then I’ll meet you here tomorrow, saw time, and bring along Emma.”

When I told Emma she said, “Why did you tell him for? You don’t even know him that well,” but she came anyway. When we met him he started talking to us about God and how he can help us to stop what we were doing. Emma just walked off and said, “I’m not listening to this crap.”

Emma and I fell out. William and I became very good friends, and one day he asked me to marry him and I said “Yes”. Then a year we had been married we heard on the news that Emma had been caught robbing the Natwest Bank and was given life in prison.

William said to me, “I’m glad you stopped when you did or you would be in there with her.” I did not say to him I know, but he knew that I was thinking it. In a way I was glad William came in to my life and helped me find God and to stop stealing or I would be in Prison for life!

The End