kik ; ashton irwin [discontinued]

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The day starts off early in the morning with the streets filled with fog and the sun barely rising, it's dark and all you could feel is the dry coldness on your skin.

The moon is still in the sky, laying lazily in west as it hides behind clouds. In the distance, the sound of lighter flickering and incoherent curse words echoes from an alleyway.

"I guess this is what I get for not stopping by the gas station last night,"

The pain of the sparkwheel digging in her thumb and feeling warmth of a small flame finally ignites, she takes a quick inhale from her cigarette and ignoring the stinging of the nice hitting the back of her throat.

She's relaxed and able to head off to her morning meeting.

'She' has a name and it's Margo.

In her life, she dealt with substance abuse and trauma, but still strong and living safely. Well, trying to.

Margo was caught and sent to recovery mostly throughout her late teen years being negatively influenced by her peers, and family members.

Now, she's attempting to be purely sober and try at life again without spiraling into downfalls of being an addict.

Kicking pebbles and birds singing happily in the morning breeze, Margo is hesitant to whether be late or be on time. She checks her phone every few minutes to rethink her actions and continues on with the loop of procrastination.

She's sitting in the back of the church, which is the location of the alcoholic anonymous and youth support meetings.

Make up your mind already or go home and regret it.

"Ah, fuck it."

After squatting in an uncomfortable position, Margo's legs almost give out and finally walk in the direction of the church's entrance.

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A small crowd of adults are around the free coffee and pastries, talking about their story or bullsh*tting around.

And there's the 'youth group', trading cigarettes, stealing each other's lighters, laughing about the last meeting, or just there.

Margo walks past the crowds and towards the room for the youth, she feels the need to just get out of the place and sleep in her bed. Although, it wouldn't be the right choice and definitely lead back to getting high with being financially unstable.

All you have to do is introduce yourself, talk about your problems, why you chose to be here, and just f*cking relax for once.

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Minutes past and it's almost nine, everyone that's apart of the group is swarming in and sits at any chair. You could definitely feel the awkward tension rising.

"Good morning, everyone! How are you all feeling?" A middle aged, red headed lady shouts joyfully.

Everyone responds weakly with 'good' or 'alright'. Why do they expect us to be THIS refreshed in the morning?

"Come on, you guys can't leave me hanging? Well, it's Saturday and should keep it low. But, looks like we have new faces that have came in. Why don't we go in a line and introduce ourselves? A small icebreaker."