Maihua Lee Fanfic - Till Death Do Us Part [Completed]

C h a p t e r O n e

Authors Note real quick just before you start reading. This chapter is all only background info about y/n's character. You don't have to read this but it will make sense for future chapters. If you just want to skip to the part where we meet Maihua then you can go straight to Chapter Two. Thank you ♥️♥️♥️

"Mummy. Jacob. Cindy. I- I'm." I couldn't say it, I felt frozen and my throat was as dry as anything. Just say it, it's easy, I'm Gay. All I could hear was my heart thumping in my chest while my hands were shaking wildly on the dining table with my family sat around me. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes.
"Y/n, what is it?" My mum asks with slight confusion as to what I need to say and I try again "I- I, am-" I couldn't say it, what would happen if they didn't accept me anymore as part of the family? What if they thought I was disgusting? What if they never wanted to see my face ever again? "Hurry up, spit it out. I've got a basketball game soon which I am NOT missing, especially cause of you!" My half brother, Jacob, hissed as he pulled me out of my own thoughts. "SHUT UP JACOB, NOT NOW!!" I shouted back, I was just not in the mood to deal with him, not now, not here. "Y/n? Is everything alright, if you're feeling to pressured to say anything you don't have to tell us if you don't want, whatever it is." My sister, Cindy, asks.
You see, Cindy is more like a best friend than a sister. My mother adopted her as my parents had tried to have their own children but it just wouldn't happen, so they adopted Cindy at two
years old. A year later, a miracle happened, or at least that's what my parents said. She got pregnant. The child was me and once I was born, they didn't pay much attention to Cindy as they now had a child of their own but that didn't stop Cindy from still looking after me and caring for me as well as my parents did. Soon after that, my mother starting having an affair and cheated on my dad. I was only a year old and Cindy was almost four but she was too young to have known what was going on. My dad eventually found out when my mother got pregnant and the baby wasn't his so they got divorced and my father moved away, leaving us. My mother ended up marrying the man she had an affair with and he passed away due to excessive drinking when I was fifteen years old, Jacob fourteen and Cindy seventeen. After that, my mother decided to have a fresh start and we moved to America as we used to live in England.
My sister takes my hands and holds it, telling me everything is going to be okay and just like that, I said it "I'm gay"

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!!!Trigger Warning!!!
!!Alcohol Abuse!!

The time is 1:04am and my mother still hadn't spoke to me since I came out, I'm lying in bed in the darkness afraid to go to sleep. I decide to go downstairs to get a glass of water, it might calm me down. As I open my bedroom door, the creaks from the hinges start to echo down the hall and I try to move slowly without waking anybody up. I manage to get to the stairs and then softly walk down trying to be light on my feet. As I walk over to the kitchen, a lamp turns on and my heart thuds into my chest as I turned my head around, it was my mother, sat on the sofa, she knew I would've come down at some point throughout the night. "Sit down." She said lightly, not even looking me in the eyes I walk over to the lounge and sit down on the other side of the couch facing her. She had been crying. Her mascara was smudged around her eyes and down her cheeks. "Mummy?" I whispered lightly. "Why don't you like boys? Why do you have to be g-ga-"
"It doesn't work like that." I whispered, on the verge of crying before carrying on "You know that"
"But what is so bad about boys that you don't like them" I gulped as she carried on talking
"Why you? Out of all the children, why did it have to be you?" She says with tears coming out of her eyes which then of course made me feel absolutely horrible. "My daughter isn't a dyke, she's a beautiful young lady. Who is getting married to a lovely, young, rich man who is going to take care of her an-"
"No! Mummy stop it! I don't want to live the life you wanted to live, I want to create my own."
"Ssshhh." She puts her index finger on my lips to hush me.
"You can live whatever life you want, but please. Please. Marry a man, be normal"
That hit me straight in the heart. I'm not going to lie, it hurt, like, really bad and so I start speaking more firmly with her. "I want to be with a woman! I like women, okay. And there is nothing you can do to change that. I'm not going to marry a man and live a life of lies only to make you happy!" I get up and leave her to go my my room
"Wait y/n, please don't do this. You can be happy with a man, please."
"Oh! Like the same man you married and then cheated on!" I started to raise my voice. "Only ending up with him running away and leaving us, leaving me, his own daughter. Not even bothering to see how I'm doing, hasn't visited once in the whole seventeen years I have been alive, not even a simple phone call! I don't even know who he is, what he is like!" At this point I was just angry and was taking it all out on her, almost yelling. "Or do you mean the other man! The one you cheated with! The one who offered to take care of the children that weren't his, only to end up coming home everyday drunk! Drenched with the smell of alcohol! And then drinking even more when he came home! Always leaving around four or five bottles on the kitchen counter or smashed all over the floor for us to wake up to, as well as himself sleeping in his own vomit, passed out!"
"Y/N STOP! Who are you? You're not my daughter, my daughter wouldn't do this to me." My mother says and I start to pour my eyes out, running up stairs.

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I sit on the end of my bed in the dark, tapping my foot nervously on the floor. I turn on my phone as the bright light glares into my eyes leaving me blind for a second or two. 2:39am it reads. I look beside me, my bags were sitting there, on the floor, waiting for me to pick them up and leave. I lie back and open my phone to watch Maihua's tiktoks, she is the only person that can manage to put a smile on my face, even after what's happened today. "How is she so perfect." I say underneath my breath, "I love you so much Maihua." I whisper and hold my phone to my heart as a tear forms in my eye and rolls down my cheek. (A/n - Not joking, I actually do this almost every night 😂. I know, I know, I'm sad)
Before I know it, its 3:11am. I grab my coat and put it on, I put my phone in its zip pocket and put my bags on my back. I felt extremely warm in the clothes I was wearing as I had put on a few layers knowing that it would be cold outside. I open my door and as usual, the hinges creak. I really tried my best to do it slowly so no one wakes up. I slide through the doorway and into the hall and I walk as slowly as ever. I get to the stairs and hesitate before I go down, my knees were shaking and my breathing started to become heavy. I took my first step down, there was no creaking. I start walking down normally, trying to be light on my feet but it didn't do a thing as the creaking filled the whole house, echoing into every direction. As soon as I got off the last step, I sigh with relief and breathe normally. I grab a small knife from the kitchen, only to defend myself should I need it. I then got to the front door and made sure I had everything I needed. I didn't worry too much if I left something behind as I had quite a bit of money on me. One thousand one hundred and sixty two dollars and eighty nine cents ($1162 .89) to be precise, I had been saving up since I was eleven. I was supposed to be saving up for university until I realised that I will never end up getting the actual amount that I needed but at least It was good for now. I also had my bank card with me, it didn't have much in it, probably only about eighty dollars. I knew I had to use all the money in it asap because once I had gotten out of this area I couldn't use it. If I had used it in any shops or an ATM, it could be tracked down and show where I have been.
I walk out of the front door and shut it behind me. The fresh, cold air hits my face as I breathe it in closing my eyes. "I'm free."

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Authors Note:
First of all, hello and thank you for choosing to read my book 🥳🥰😁
I hope I haven't bored you too much but I thought some background information was needed, to show your background and family as stuff.
I promise you, you meet Maihua in the next chapter so I'm not going to keeping you waiting for too long 😂😂.
I hope you will enjoy reading my book and if you can, give me some feedback or point out errors if you spot them.
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