My testimony starts on May 2nd, 1997.  I had a friend, and we were only friends, nothing more, and he knew that.  I though I had gotten to know him, but in fact, I didn't really know who he was.  That night, he called me and asked if I could go out.  My parents weren't home.  They were at a prayer meeting, like every Friday.  I told them I wanted to stay home because I felt sick.  I was also mad at them because I had plans to go out that night with a different friend, but my parents didn't let me go.  So I asked to stay home, and they let me.  When they went to the Prayer meeting, my friend called me.  He said, "Why don't you go out, everybody else is going out?"  I thought to myself, "I don't want to be disobedient to my parents, but maybe if I sneak out, my parents would never know", so that's what I did.

That night when my parents got home, and they fell asleep.  I was all ready to sneak out so I called my friend and told him to wait for me at the corner of my street.  I told him not to pass by my house, because it might wake up my parents, and ruin everything.  So I put pillows under my blanket and climbed out of my window.  I live in a two story house, and all the windows of my house have screws in them.  But since my parents trusted me, my window didn't have any screws.  So I took advantage of my parents trust.  Since I live in a two story house, I jumped off the roof and I landed on the ground.  The Lord had everything planned, because I could have broken my leg, and that would have stopped everything the Lord had planned for me.  

I walked down the street, and my friend was already there.  But when I got in the car, I saw 3 guys and 1 other girl.  I though to myself, "I'm not going to do anything, yea, I'll get high, do drugs, drink".  But when there are 3 guys and 1 other girl, I feared they could take advantage of me.  But I got in the car, and we left.  Before, when I was talking to my friend on the phone, he said that we were just going to go cruzing around the town.  I said "OK that sounds like fun", that's why I went.  I never though he was going to take me to a motel.  That's were they took me. 

When we got there, they dropped me off at a laundry service room, belonging to the motel.  They told us to wait there, they said that they were going to pick up another friend.  I said ok, but I guess they left to rent a room.   When they came back and picked us up, they took us to that room.  They said, "Don't worry, put your trust in us! We aren't going to do anything, we're just going to wait for our other friend to come, and then we'll all leave together".  So I put trust in my friends, I though they would never hurt me, but in fact I really didn't know who my friends were. 

At first, we were just talking, so I said, "while we're waiting, why don't we get something to drink?"  So my friend and I left the room, and walked to this little restaurant in front of the motel.  We bought three Sprites and then walked back to the room.  They started pouring the Sprite into cups.  They didn't bring a bag or anything that looked suspicious, that would make me think they were going to put something in my drink, or do something to me.  It all looked innocent. 

I went to the restroom to fix my hair and do girl things, and when I came out my cup was already served.  I put some gum in my mouth, strawberry, and I drank what I thought was my Sprite.  After this, I don't know what happened.