Fix the broken

Chapter 1.

Maria
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I hate today.Mondays are the worst. If I could sleep in all day on Mondays I would. But I can't, so I get up and go wake up my siblings. First I go into Lily's room since her room is across from mine.

"Lily wake up. It's 6:00, you have to get ready for school." I tell her, she doesn't like Monday's either. Well really she just doesn't like waking up but that's besides the point.

"No let me sleep, I'm tired." Lily responds.

"Please just wake up, I have to get Marco up and we're gonna be late if you take forever. Unless if you want to ride the bus?" I tell her knowing she hates riding the bus.

"Ok I'm up. I'm not riding the bus. Thank you for getting me up, I love you, now go away so I can get ready." Lily muttered tiredly getting up.

" Ok thank you. I love you too, we leave at 7:00 be ready or you have to ride the bus." I yell to her going to Marco's room.

I knock on the door expecting no one to answer or say anything, but when I knock he opens the door.

" Hey Marco, We're leaving at 7:00 so I can get you both to school. How did you sleep?" I ask him.

" Ok I'll be ready by then. I slept Okay, how did you sleep?" He asked.

" I slept good. I'm gonna go get ready now, if you need help with anything tell me." I answered.

I go to my room to get ready. It doesn't take me long seeing ask how I took a shower before I went to wake them up. I just blow dry my hair, brush my teeth, wash my face, do my makeup, get dressed all that good stuff. When I walk out of my room it's 7:35. I try to get ready faster so I have time to make my siblings breakfast. As I head downstairs my dad is already in the kitchen making my siblings pancakes.

" Oh dad, what are you doing awake? I thought you would be asleep." I ask him confused.

My dad is never up this early because he usually stays late at his office. He tries to help out as much as he can with him being at work most of the time, but I don't mind being a mother to my siblings since my own mother couldn't do her job. Soon after my mother gave birth to Marco she left. Where did she go? I'm wondering that too. Well actually I was wondering but then I stopped because if she couldn't care enough to stay and take care of her children then I shouldn't care enough to think about her.

" No I came home earlier last night, so I decided to make you guys breakfast. I know I don't really hang out with you kids like a dad should and I am very sorry Maria. But I love you so much and I'm so thankful for what you do with your siblings." My dad admitted.

" Thank you dad, I love you too. Do you need any help or anything?" I ask him.

" No I don't, you can do whatever until I'm finished." He reply's.

When I go upstairs to check on my siblings Marco is putting on his shoes, and Lily Is finishing up her hair.

On the way out of the house dad asked me if he wanted him to take the kids to school but I said it was ok because then I would have a bunch of extra time that I wouldn't know what to do with. I could talk to my best friend Mae but she usually comes in right before the bell rings. I don't really have any other friends other than her and I am not in the mood to talk to my boyfriend either.

When I get to school it's 7:45 so I still have about 30 minutes until school starts. I decide to just sit in my car until Mae gets here, that is until my passenger door opens and my boyfriend Efren gets in.

" Hi babe, how are you? You sleep well ?" He blurts out.

" I'm good, how are you? I slept well. How about you?" I ask him.

" Did you eat breakfast kitten?" He asks me ignoring my questions to him

I've always wondered why he calls me kitten. It is the worst pet name I've ever heard or been called. I asked him to stop calling me that a couple times because I hate it but he didn't care.

" Yes I did. My dad made pancakes." I tell him getting annoyed because I know what's coming.

" Ok well you already know you're not supposed to do that. You only eat when I'm around so I can keep track of your calories. I'm just looking out for you Maria" He tells me getting angry.

I just nod and go to get out of my car seeing as how it's now 8:00 and Mae should be here now. When I get out Efren gets out too, so I lock the car and start walking away. But of course he pulls me back by my wrist.

" Dont walk away from me when we're talking." He barks.

" I'm sorry I didn't mean to. I thought we were done talking. Can I go now I have to meet up with Mae." I tell him bored.

He lets go of my wrist, rolls his eyes then leaves. I decide to send Mae a text instead of walking around looking for her.

Me: Are you here yet? I'm bored and just had a run in with E.

Not even a minute later she responds.

Mae Mae: pulling in, meet me at the gym.

I send a thumbs up and start heading towards the gym. As I'm walking there I'm looking through my texts and one from Efren pops up.

E: Dont tell Mae anything. I know you do and I don't appreciate it kitten. Those are conversations between us, that should stay between us. I love you. Don't eat at lunch since you ate breakfast.

I decide to just send a thumbs up since i don't want to be fighting at 8 AM. I don't know how but Efren just wakes up ready to fight, I guess.But as im walking and about to send the thumbs up, I bump into someone. Im glad I have a thicker phone case and a screen protector because I dropped my phone.

"Im sorry." I say reaching down to pick up my phone.

"It's fine, just watch where you're going." A voice I know all too well says.

I look up and see my enemy Lorenzo. He either doesn't see that it's me or he doesn't care. And no I'm not desperate for his attention or anything, but I feel like if he saw it was me he would probably tell me to 'fuck off' and 'watch where the fuck I'm going.' why is he just standing in the middle of the hallway anyway. I see him talking to his friend, I can't tell who it is though. Can't they talk on the side of the hallway, not in the middle? Whatever.

I make it to the gym and I see Mal sitting on the bleachers. I go up to her and she gets up to give me a hug.

" Okay so tell me everything that happened. Yes, I promise not to tell anyone. Plus who would I tell? Oh right. No one. So... what happened?" She asks me.

I tell her what happened and she asks me why I'm still with him when he's like that. I've told her multiple times that it's not that easy. We've been together for a year and every time I try breaking up with him he either, A, Hits me and tells me to shut the fuck up, and he's the only one that will ever love me. B, ignores the whole situation. C, gives me space for a day or two until he's knocking at my door begging me to go back to him.Or D, promises he'll change and he will never act how he does.  C has only happened one time. D happens every so often, but A and B is what usually happens.

No one other than Mae knows about the abuse. Not my dad, not my siblings. No one. And I plan to keep it that way.

A/n
Hi guys! This is the first chapter. I wrote it on the bus so yeah. Anyway thank you so much for reading this it means so much.

Any suggestions. Things I should add? Things I should take away?

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