It's been a long time

Untitled Part 15

Madelines Pov:

It's the next morning and I wake up all I want to do is stay in bed all day, I didn't even want to wake up anymore. I'm tired, tired of waking up, tired of school, tired of... of everything. I got my phone and went on snap to see myself with dried mascara on my cheeks. There was so much noise downstairs but I didn't want to confront her mom. Mom could read me like a book so she knew when something was wrong so I just stayed in bed talking to Nick. Nick was the only one I would FaceTime in the morning looking the way I looked. He answers all the time unless he's at soccer practice.

Nick: Were you crying
Maddie: Is it that obvious
Nick: Yeah you have dry black stuff all over your face so why were you crying
Maddie: My dad yelled at me
Nick: Oh
Maddie: I- wait I'll call you in a bit
There was a knock at the door which interrupted me. "Who is it" I asked. "Maddie it's me your mom" Mom said. "Oh um come in" I say making sure my cuts aren't showing. Mom opens the door and comes in "What happened to you" Mom asked going to the bathroom. "Nothing" I asked trying to figure out what she was referring to. Mom comes out of the bathroom with makeup wipes and comes over to me. "Let's get you cleaned up a bit" Mom says wiping everything off my face. "Thanks mom" I say hugging her. "Ok so what's up" She asks of course I knew that was coming. "Uh what are you talking about" I ask playing dumb. "Maddie you act like I haven't known you for 14 years and during those 14 years we weren't close I know something is up" Mom says looking at me. "Mom I'm fine" I say just wanting to go back to sleep. "You sure you can talk to me Maddie I love you" Mom says smiling. "I know and I love you too" I say faking a smile I didn't want anyone to worry about me. "Ok so I forgot to tell you yesterday with everything that happened but Hailey is here and they finally let us adopt her" Mom told me. "Wait so there is officially going to be like a 5 year old in the house" I ask while a million thoughts ran through my head and the voice came back from hiding for a while. Now you can kill yourself and they will have someone to replace you so just do it. I didn't realize I had zoned out for so long till Mom said something. "Maddie." "Oh sorry um were you um saying something" I said sounding more like a question. "I asked if you wanna go meet her she's downstairs" She felt like something was wrong with Maddie but she didn't know exactly what. "Uh- yeah sure" I say standing up and stretching my back.

We both go downstairs and there she is, Hailey is sitting on the couch with Mark watching t.v. Mom knows how shy and awkward I can be so she better not expect much talking. "Uh good morning" I mumble I was really shy because I don't even know this girl. Hailey looks up at me and waves while I smile. Mom brings me to the kitchen "Stop being so shy you're acting like Mark is stranger" Mom says with a small smile. "You know new people and me don't really do well" I say trying to make a point. "I know that Maddie and don't bring up your anxiety because then I'll just feel bad" Mom said which made me laugh. "You know I overthink everything so what if she doesn't like me or doesn't want to talk to or even worse what is she thinking about me right now" I say. "She probably doesn't know what to think if all you said was good morning with a smile" Mom said. "Whatever she probably hates me already" I say. "Stop being stupid and go act like yourself" Mom said. "I am acting like myself" I say not noticing that my finger was bleeding from ripping of my cuticle Mom saw though. "Maddie stop ripping your cuticles that looks painful" Mom says. "It is but I'm in crisis right now" I say laughing. "You're so stupid" We walk back to the living room. "Oh and no cursing in front of her" Mom whispers. "Yeah I'll try" Mom just rolls her eyes.

I go and sits next to Dad then whisper "introduce me" He laughs. "Really" Dad asks. "Pretty please" I whisper. "You're such a child" Dad whispers back. "Yes I know but I'm your child" I joked around. "Hailey this is Madeline and she is our 15 year old daughter but she acts like she's five you too should get along well" Dad said laughing and I rolled my eyes. "I'm Hailey and I'm 7 years old" Hailey said with a smile. "I wanna go back to being 7" I say laughing. "Why" Hailey asked. I couldn't tell a 7 year old 'you know that was back then to when I was happy' so I just said "Being 7 is fun" and Hailey smiled.

No ones Pov:

It's 7:45 p.m and Sofia is at the front door it's her week with them so she that's why she's coming with all her stuff. Mark and Lexie come in with her and Madeline forgot so when she saw her sister she was excited. "Oh my god Sofia you're here" Madeline said running up to Sofia and hugging her. "Maddie Oh" they hug for a good 5 seconds and go upstairs to Madelines room. "Well that was interesting" Lexie said as Mark laughed.

At 8:30 p.m the girls got hungry so they came downstairs to get dinner. They thought everyone was asleep but nope Mark and Lexie were in the room downstairs that they turned into Haileys room. Hailey was crying they could hear Lexie and Mark calming her down. Madeline wanted to know what was going on but didn't want to interrupt whatever was going on. They ended up heating up some leftover pizza from lunch and getting some juice when they were about to go into the room both of them heard Mark and Lexie talk. "Mark I think there is soemthing wrong with Maddie." "She says she's ok Lex don't worry about it." "I know she says it but she's acting weird I don't know." "You're just overthinking because of what has happened to her she seems good." "Yeah you're right." All Madeline could think is that there is something wrong with her but she was hiding it this only meant she had to hide it better.

When they were finally in the room Sofia couldn't help but ask "Are you ok." "I'm great" Madeline lied. "Ok good" Sofia said. They ate and watched movies till they both fell asleep on the couch upstairs. It was one of the best nights Madeline has had so far.