College Admissions Essay: Being In Love With Wyatt

Everyone says that being in love is not as easy as it seems, in this case it wasn’t easy, but it was so worth it. Being in love with Wyatt was the only thing that didn’t screw me over. It was the only thing in my life that didn’t make me want to run away when things got a little rough. He felt different than anything I’ve ever felt in my life. He was the one thing I thought wouldn’t change. His consistency was breathtaking for me. I never got used to the way he felt, I never got used to him.

I was put into the system when I was 7 years old. I was never in a foster home for more than a year. Every home I went to was either unstable or unsafe or both. I rarely felt welcome and I never felt wanted. It was late August and I was 17. I was almost an adult and I could almost be out of the system. I wanted nothing more than to stop being passed around and to be on my own. I got into a “bad” fight with my foster dad and they put me in a new home. This was probably the nicest home that I’ve ever stayed at.

They sent me to a really nice charter school because that’s where their other kids went. It was beautiful actually. I have never had room in my head for school work but my senior year was going to be different even on the first day. I was in english and my teacher Mr.

I loved him. I was in love with him God I was so lucky to love him.I was so filled with nothing but him. He was my everything, so when he was walking away with his bags in his hands with no explanation, my broken body couldn’t say one thing. I couldn’t breathe, my chest was so heavy, not for the same reasons as before, because the only thing that kept me feeling radiantly alive was gone. Even when I was twelve and my foster dad hit me so hard I fell to the ground and broke my nose, when Wyatt spoke the words “we are done” and walked away, it hurt worse. It was the most painful moment in my