When Things Come Back To Haunt You

Chapter 1

'sunshine, lollipops and, rai-' "aaaahhhhhh!!!!" I screamed, falling out of bed and accidentally, but thankfully pulling my alarm clock out of the wall. Damn that clock, it scares the shit out of me every morning.

"Maxi! Get up!" Carla called from the kitchen. "I'm already up!" I called back. I untangled myself from my blankets and stood up, studying myself in the mirror. Yuck.

My hair was a mess, as usual and my clothes were all uneven as well as my breath tasting terrible. I don't usually wear makeup but last night we had gone out to dinner so I had put on the slightest touch, and that had all smudged and gone gross.

"you look yucky" Bailey said from my door. "you always look yucky" I replied picking him up and tickling him. He started squirming in my arms and begging me to stop.

"Maxi!! Stop!! It tickles!! Kia's awake!" Bailey said in between giggles. I put him down and walked over to Kia's cot. "good morning beautiful" I said picking her up.

The Paxton's had 4 kids; Kia, 7 months, Bailey, 6, Darcy, 8, and Kalyn, 12. Then there's me, a skinny 17 year old with dark brown hair that comes to just above my hips, light blue eyes and nicely tanned skin.

I'm a foster kid. I was taken away from my drug addict parents when I was 13. After that I was passed around from home to home for a year, then I was given to HIM. That was the worst two years of my life. After someone spoke up, I was passed from home to home for another year once again. When I moved in with HIM I started at a new school where I lived in Sydney and stayed at it until I moved to Newcastle with the Paxton's.

Each family I stayed with eventually said they couldn't handle me anymore because I treated the parents like shit. I was great with the kids though. Then I ended up here. Carla and Seth were the only people I actually liked and they had recently told me that they were considering adopting me. You have no clue how shocked I was to hear that.

I didn't see to much of Seth though, he had an office job so he left before we got up in the morning and got back after we had gone to bed, even if I was still awake. I only saw him a little bit on the weekends because he was still always working, getting ready for the next week. So yes, the Paxton's were very wealthy.

"mum said to bring Kia down if she's awake" Kalyn said appearing in my doorway. I shared a bedroom with Kia but that was only because I was the only one who could get her back to sleep if she woke up at night. "ok" I said smiling at him. We all walked downstairs and I put Kia in her highchair next to Darcy. "morning Darcy, morning Carla" I said. "morning Maxi" they both said.

"where are you going?" Carla asked when I turned around. "to get ready for school, Andy's picking me up today" I called over my shoulder as I ran up the stairs. "be back down in half an hour for breakfast!" she called. "I always am" I mumbled.

I did my normal school day routine; brush my hair and put it in a high ponytail, put on my bracelets to cover my scars, dress in my usual school uniform and the other basics anyone would do. Except I don't wear ANY makeup to school, I hate it. I honestly couldn't be bothered with guys, not since Ben anyway.

I finished getting ready and went back downstairs for breakfast. I grabbed a piece of toast just as a horn honked outside. "Andy's here, see you later" I said kissing everyone on the forehead, grabbing my bag and running outside.

"hey sexy" Andy joked winking at me. "hey girl hey" I said dragging out the 'hey'. I jumped into her blue commodore and we backed out of my driveway quickly. Me and Andy had become best friend's when we were 3. She was a foster kid as well but I never got to stay with her family when I was in Sydney. I didn't see her or my other best friend Kyle for the whole time I was with HIM or for the next year but when I moved to Newcastle, I discovered that we went to the same school. Nobody knew I was fostered, nobody knew my story. Andy had gotten adopted two years ago and everybody knew it. She wasn't ashamed. Neither was I, I just didn't want people to find out about the old me.

"hello, earth to Maxi" Andy said waving her hand in front of my face. "sorry, I zoned out again, didn't I?" I said with an apologetic smile. "yes, anyway, I was saying I hate Monday's just like you" Andy said. That's what I love about her, she's so random.

But she was right, I do hate Monday's. And not for the reason everyone else does. I hate it because I have to share all my classes with the schools bad boy, oops sorry, let me rephrase that; the school's dickhead, Chase Dixon. Chase and Andy had been together for almost a year when I caught him making out with the head cheerleader. I may have hit him a few times. Just a few. I may have broken his nose. Maybe. I might have hit her as well. Just maybe. Anyway, Chase had recently developed a habit of annoying the fuck out of me. Me of all people. I wasn't unpopular, but I didn't hang out with the popular people. They were all sluts and man-whores. Chase has had sex with almost every girl in the year, including Andy. We were in year 12 which I was very glad of.

"MAXI!!" Andy screamed. "oh sorry" I apologized again. "I hate Monday's, the only good thing about them is that I'm in one of Kyle's classes. But I feel for you, I really do. If I had to spend all day with that prick I'd murder him. I'm so over him now, even if you wanted to go out with him I wouldn't care. I honestly wouldn't! He's such-" "Andy!! Stop, your not shutting up again. If he talks to me one more time, I'll hit him" I said shrugging my shoulders.

"I'll do the honors!" she said eagerly making me laugh. We pulled into the school parking lot and parked in our usual spot next to the building entrance. We got out of the car and started walking through the crowd of people.

"who's that?" I heard someone ahead of us whisper when we walked up the stairs. Must be the new kid everyone was talking about, the 'hot' one. "that's Andy" someone replied. "no the other one" "oh, that's Maxi. She's hot aye?" "yeah, hey girl" a familiarish face said as we walked past. "hey" I said smirking as I kept walking.

I swung around quickly as I felt a hand touch my ass. I slapped him and said "touch my ass again and I swear to god you won't have any balls, if you have some at the moment that is" making everyone around me laugh. "I'm sorry I just couldn't control myself around you babe" he replied, obviously trying to flirt. He failed. Epicly. "honestly, I don't give a fuck. Touch me one more time and you will die" I said turning back around. I started to walk off when he grabbed my wrist. "let go of me you ass" I said through gritted teeth. "or what?" he teased smirking. "trust me Tom, you don't wanna know" someone growled from behind me. 'Tom' instantly let go of my arm and backed up. I turned around and saw someone I really didn't want to see at the moment, or ever.

Chase Dixon.

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(A/N) helloooooo people!! so this is my new book obviously, let me know what you think!! Please, i'd really like feedback :) and if you have any ideas for the story let me know! So what do you think of these characters so far? If you have any questions just comment them and I'll answer them for you :) each chapter I'll tell you one thing about myself :)

So, number one: I'm from Australia :)

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~hayley <3