SiX the Musical (& Cast) Oneshots

Addictions (Part 1) - Cast

A/N: This will be SVN minus Lexi plus Sam in an AU where none of them was successful

It's hard living in a world where you have five friends treating you as their lifeline. It's like an ultimatum: once you fail them, you're out. The situation doesn't even provide an 'if' option because everyone knows you're inevitably going to burn out and collapse to the ground. It's like everyone's rooting for you to fail in the tough world you're trying to survive in, and it's only you with that glint of hope which is ready to be snatched away by the next person who falls on your dependency. Sometimes it's worth asking yourself: why even try to be that girl? The one who everyone thinks is perfect when in reality they have more than a bloody sky-high level of shit to deal with: put up with people who only drag them down from succeeding in life.

It's not always good to have a kind heart.

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A/N: Before this story begins, I want to make sure that everyone knows how much I love the girls, and that I would never wish any of this upon any one of them. The same goes for Lexi, whom I had to cut out because she has major responsibilities in real life which I don't want to minimise. I don't feel comfortable writing about her in these situations, so I'll replace her with Sam (yes, Sam)

TW: Maiya, everyone sympathise with Maiya, each girl has an addiction/issue, this line of story will last 2/3 parts, sex, drugs, alcohol, anorexia, overdose

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Maiya's the small one. The kind one. The one with the biggest heart and the biggest brains as far as most people are concerned about.

However, she's also the most used.

Friends from middle school to friends in sixth form, to Uni, to... nothing. Almost as if they wiled away their childhood for the fun and games.

Well, it's not fun and games anymore.

Not when each of your friends has issues to deal with, therefore giving you issues to deal with.

Maiya's the small one. The kind one. But also the one who suffered the most, the worst, the consequences of everyone else's actions.

Everyone cracks at some point, right?

She's envious of the happier women around her, of her age and her abilities. But then she looks back to her friends and forgets all about her dreams.

Because even if they don't care about her, she'll always care about them.

Her family knows what she puts up with. They've tried to drag her away. But little Maiya's seen too much. She knows too much. Too much to leave this mess behind and start a new life. Too much that if she leaves, not one, not two, but all of them could end up in jail, her included as a bystander.

Because whilst you're being so nice, the power to speak up for what you know is right, dwindles. Dwindles so far that you're no longer the nice person you once were.

Because what are friends for if they don't tell you right from wrong? Black or white. Left or right. Hot or cold. Straight or not.

So maybe it's her friends who've got it wrong. No one'll know.

Waking up every morning to remember where you are in life... why wake up anymore?

For your friends. Their lives depend on you.

Who'd take them on?

Rehab?

It's not April just yet.