That evening when Maebh arrived home, she heard... noises. They sounded like moaning, and it was coming from her mother's room. She slowly peeped inside and saw her mother and the mail carrier wrapped in an intimate tango. She quickly recoiled and cringed, scuttling to her room.
She went to her shrine of her celebrity crush, Dylan Volkov, a strapping tall man with black hair in his late 40s. "take me out of this place..." she whispered to a signed photo of her and Dylan hugging. He lived in her village, so she saw him daily, strutting around with his 3 children, Amber, a girl in her early thirties with blue hair, Christopher, the middle child, a boy in his late teens with thick, frizzy black hair, and Jay, the youngest, a toddler with deep ginger hair.
She flopped down on her sleeping bag, trying to block out those insufferable noises from her mother's bedroom, and guess what? She was unsuccessful in her futile attempts. She grabbed her phone and put on her headphones, playing 'Wrecking ball' by Mother Mother.
"Let's break it! (Just because we can),
"Deface it! (Just because we can),
Let's break it! (Ju-u-ust just because)"
She sang along quietly. She had finally blocked out the noisy fornication in the other room, hooray. She yawned and began to lay on her right side before playing imaginary drums on her thighs (As all sane people do).
She stopped listening to music and called her boyfriend. "Hi baby!!" She smiled, turning on her camera. "Hi bumblebee!" Ollie smiled, blowing kisses at the phone. Maebh giggled and snorted "Gah!! Wow!!" she ticked. Ollie smiled "you ok baby?" He asked her, yet there was only humour written in his eyes, no concern at all.
Maebh brushed it off and tilted her head "how's the city?" she asked, playing with her hair. "The food is great; the background noise sounds like you're here too. Eh?" He quipped; Maebh sighed. "My mum is railing the mail carrier... again" she sighed, drumming on her thighs again.
Ollie smirked and a man's voice was heard "got to go!" Ollie said before hanging up the phone. Maebh thought nothing of it, Ollie was very loyal to her, she knew it... he had to be...
Right?
She sighed and cracked her knuckles, yawning and rolling randomly around on her sleeping bag. The TV in the other room was playing the news and she listened closely.
"Town scandal! The Volkov family are found out to have quite a positive view on incest and have been found out to use it for years! The only people who married to someone who is NOT a relative are: Rory Oaklow and Dylan Volkov." The TV broadcasts, Maebh gasped and sat up abruptly.
"WHAT THE FUCK?!" She yelled, texting Amy the news. Amy replied in great jest, making jokes about it. Maebh lay down again and grabbed her favourite book, the diary of Greggorius Lunkuvic.
As she read, she saw some foreign symbols and studied them closely, putting in earphones and listening to the song her friend recommended. It started with light acoustic electric guitar strumming. The bridge went:
'Witchcraft what's fake? What's fact?
if we take it all back, can we find the meaning?
Pause that, if we take it all back,
Maybe I was the one giving you hell?!
Witchcraft what's fake? What's fact?
If we take it all back, can we find the meaning?
Pause that, if we take it all back Maybe I was the one giving you hell?!'
She listened along and put her book away as she did before curling up and dozing off.
She awoke to loud moaning and her mum screaming "IM COMING GOD IM COMING!" Maebh grimaced and covered her ears, grumbling. "SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Maebh yelled; her mother began to quiet down. Eventually Maebh dozed off once more and had a dream about her and her celebrity crush doing... Things. As the usual teen does, or at least I think that's what the average teen does.
The next morning was Tuesday, her least favourite day. She had maths, double maths today... even worse than regular maths. She got up and stretched "ughhhhh!!!" she said as she stretched. She brushed her tangled ginger nest of hair and placed it into a scruffy ponytail before the bobble fell apart with a loud SNAP!
She yelped and curled up quickly as a reflex from the noise but soon, realising it was not a threat, she uncurled and sat up, slowly rising to her feet. She got into her uniform, accidentally slipping into a push up bra instead of her usual bra. She put on her uniform, fumbling with her tie and cussing angrily at it.
She checked her calendar; it was her birthday in 3 days, ugh... Maebh hated her birthday more than anything. But she put on a brave face and put on a smile, checking a text from Amy.
It read: "MAEBH!! There's a new boy! He's fit!!! Gah, I think you'll love him!! He has a sister with vitiligo, Lacey. She is so hot! And I've heard she's gynosexual!"
Maebh chuckled and began her long walk to school. She could do this, she had to remind herself, "one step at a time. Don't cut your life's corners. It could be catastrophic." Her fathers voice echoed in her head, and she teared up slightly, it'd been a while since her dad left, but she's never forgotten the last words he said to her. "Keep your head down and study" and
"don't take your mother's abuse little lady... I love you Mae-Mae."
She eventually got to school and met the new additions to her friend group, Lacey and her brother, Knotter. They were pretty chill, both had tanned skin, but Lacey had dark splotches across her body. Knotter walked up to Maebh. "You must be Maebh, Amy's told me all about you! She was right, you are quite beautiful" Knotter flirted.
Maebh cleared her throat "Oh, uhm, I'm dating someone..." She spoke timidly. "I see... Who are you dating... I'm in an open relationship so... same... but please say who you're dating." Knotter smiled.
"This guy called Ollie-James Xotics" She smiled. Knotter gulped. "Thats... Thats my boyfriend?" Knotter said. Maebh gasped "HE'S CHEATING ON ME....? WITH A GUY!?" Maebh yelled angrily. She whined angrily and stomped her foot, mind teetering on the edge of a meltdown. She sighed and stretched "well, shit I guess"
She sat beside Amy and huffed, resting her head on Amy's shoulder to which Amy blushed, her cheeks turning a shade of muted hot pink. "Th... There, there...!" She said, trying to Make Maebh feel better.
"And as if it wasn't shit already, I have double maths!!" Maebh began to cry. "I know that the fact that your boyfriend cheating is hard but don't cry!!" Amy whispered. "I'm not upset at that!! I'm upset I have DOUBLE FUCKING MATHS!" Maebh sobbed. Amy sighed and patted Maebh's head sympathetically.
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Maebh
FantasyHer name was Maebh, in her small town, moon wood mill, she had always been alone, it was by choice though, she was often found with her nose stuck in a book that showed ancient relics and how they had been lost to time, almost like humans would be o...
