My life would suck without you

Dear Agony

Maggie wasn't prepared for the scolding she got when she walked through that door. Wasn't prepared for the slap that made its way onto her face. As she tried to make her way passed her father, to the set of stairs. She wasn't even prepared to be yanked back by her arm, by him to be scolded at even more. She should have been, and she mentally cursed at herself for letting her guard down. But this however she definitely wasn't prepared for. Her father hitting her even more than normal. Even harder than usual.

Usually, she'd get a slap by him, or he'd yank her around. But he never hit her like this. It was only ever her he treated this way. He laid his hands on her mother, yes. Just never as much or as extreme as he did her. But he's never hit her sister. Ever. Maggie didn't understand it.

She fell to the floor after his last hit. After he punched her in the stomach and then her face. She laid there in pain. Her ears started ringing. Tears never came. Well not counting the few tears that came from the punch to her eye. But she tried her hardest not to hypervenalate, quickly failing. Her face was full of pain and her stomach hurt. She gripped her stomach and tried to calm herself down.

She heard her mother run toward her. Shouting her name over and over again. And in an instant she was in her mother's arms. Maggie couldn't take the closeness. She wasn't close to her mother. She just had issues with emotional closeness to anyone really. But she laid there longer than expected for herself.

"Maggie!! My baby! I'm so sorry!" Maggie's mother cried.

After that though Maggie pushed her weeping mother away and got up, clutching her stomach as she did so. She made her way to the stairs and went straight to her room shutting her door and locking it behind her. She made her way over to her bed and laid down. A familiar smell hit her as she did so.

It took her a second to realize where the smell was coming from.

It was the hoodie. Alex's hoodie. And it was a mix of Alex's perfume and conditioner. Maggie instantly calmed down at the thought of her new friend. She pulled her blankets out from under her and covered herself up. Cuddling into the hoodie. She pulled the hood over her head and sunk further under her blankets. She tried her best not to shed tears, swearing she wouldn't do this to herself. But she crumbled under the weight of everything that's been happening around her lately. Everything that's been happening to her. She thought back to when her mother told her they were moving and that this would be good for her. That she needed a change and lately she hasn't been acting like her "precious" little girl and that she's been a brat. Maggie couldn't believe the words coming from her mother's mouth. How dare she! Maggue needs a change?! Maybe, definitely! But a brat!

Maggie tried to shake away the stressful thought. She reached her hand down into her pocket for her phone. She turned it on and decided to go on facebook. She was surprised to see that she got a few friends request and a few texts. She looked through the notifications list to see a bunch of people, from her new school who apparently put some interest into her, to look her up on facebook. But one name in particular caught her eye.

It was Alex.

She didn't even know she used social media let alone facebook. And if she did use anything, it was probably tumblr. Because if Maggie wasn't lying, everything about that girl screamed tumblr. Shes nerdy, a feminist (Maggie assumes) she's kinda emo, shes a badass, and shes just all around a good person.

"Oh my god what the hell is wrong with me?" Maggie cringed at herself. She accepted Alex's friend request and then immediately after, went on her page, scrolling through her pictures.

"Im so weird!"

Maggie practically whispered to herself as she looked through the girls pictures. She stopped on a few interesting ones. One where Alex was at the beach with a surf board, another where she was doing gymnastic tricks and another where she was holding a ribbon and a first place trophy for the school science fair. Is there anything this girl can't do!? Maggie smiled at all the pictures of Alex.