Chapter 1

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Hello, my name is Maelle, I'm 14 years old and I live with my mom, her and my dad divorced when I was really young, and I haven't seen him in 11 years. I don't really remember much about my dad, but my mom is a safety freak, clean freak, health nut, perfectionist, it's hard making a mistake around her.

It was a rainy afternoon and I was nearing the end of my seventh hour, English. 15 minutes left. Me and my best friend, Harper glanced at each other, grinning, we were both thinking the same thing. There was a picture on the wall of a monkey, we have a hilarious inside joke about monkeys. 10 minutes passed. DING! DING! DING! Time to go home, I was starving. I went to my locker, grabbed my bag and made it to the bus just as it was leaving. Time to sit on a bus for 45 minutes, yay. I begged my mom at the beginning of ninth grade to drive me to and from school, after being bullied on the bus last year. Of course, she had better things to do than drive me to school. I scavenged through my lunchbox for a snack, nothing.
While on the bus I finished my homework and then arrived at my stop.
As I walked in the door, I called my mom and there was no reply. I walked into the kitchen and noticed a green piece of paper, which my mom wrote

"Went to the grocery store, then went to get piper a birthday present be home at 5,
Love you!
~mom"

Piper is a super annoying girl a grade below me who thinks we're like BFFs or something. Anyways, I grabbed a bag of pretzels and a jar of Nutella and sat on the couch and turned on FRIENDS.
When I was about halfway through the episode I heard the doorbell ring. I got up and looked through the peephole. I didn't see anyone.

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