Once A City Girl

Chapter 1

The tube rattled it's way trough the dark underground of the city of London, making it's announcements like a fare ground ride, though it wasn't a fun ride not when you knew were it was heading to. Maddie Glasgow walked her way off the tube onto the windy platform lugging her school bag along with her. She stood on the escalators waiting for the end, the meany tourists crowding around her. Maddie was often doing this. Leaving school early complaining she was ill. She did this to get away from school but surely nothing could be worse than home. She was use to the tube and the underground, it was how she traveled to school and back every day. Same old pushy people, same old tramps, same old pick pockets; she often wondered why tourists liked this hell of a city. Not everything is as it seems in London. Yes it's a gorgeous city with meany land marks, but inside all that is secrets that never can be told. Maddie walked her way trough the busy streets, bumping into people. She hung around avoiding to go home, but walking around the city was no better. Maddie took the long route home avoiding the back streets, she never went down there as she didn't know who or what was down there but she had a clear idea. She entered the flat building were she lived. She stomped her way up the stared and stopped outside her door, she closed her eyes and breathed before entering her flat. Her mother was making tea in the bare dirty kitchen, Maddie knew it would just be the same old disgusting mash potato and peas, witch is all her mother would ever buy. Maddie took one look in the kitchen and walked into her "bedroom". Her bed room was nothing but a wardrobe, metal framed uncomfortable bed and stained purple carpet. The flat wasn't warm because they never paid the bills it was cold and damp all year round. What didn't help is that the block of flats they lived is was one of the worst on there block, very loud and hectic (not in the good way). Maddie looked into her small partly smashed mirror. Maddie was a pretty girl with long brown hair and dark eyes, but her hair was knotted and her eyes were tired and worn. Her face was chalky white and her school clothes were tattered and short. She walked trough to the kitchen to were her mum was. She was serving the tea on the old table that was scratched and tattered.
"Eat quick" her mother said "I'm going to work soon"
Maddie looked down "pft work" she said sarcastically.
Maddies mother stool up and swiped her meal off the table.
"Do you want me to earn money? Or to live on the street? It's up to you ether way!"
"What 'way' is mine then?" Said Maddie with tears in her eyes "how is taking and dealing that rubbish going to help me and my life? You don't make money do you? Because you spend it all on more for you! Soon we will be living on the streets and how will I have anything to do with that?" Maddie sat at the table with her head in her hands trying to hold back tears.
" I'll be off them." Said Maddies mother as she swiped Maddies unfinished meal off the table and put it on the work top. She stormed out the room and slammed the door.