The Monster Within

Maia had always been different. As a child, she didn't like what usual young girls liked. As a teen, she never fit in. She was quiet and shy, always dressed in dark blues, greens, and browns. And she seemed to have no temper at all...
Or so that's what everyone thought. They weren't there when she was home alone, fighting against herself, her instinct, her dark side. One night, everything changed. Her world flipped inside out.
Her mother
Dead
Her father
Gone
Never again to see her home
Her school
The community she'd grown up in
The one that seemed to suck up her very existence, outcasting her, just as she wanted it to do. Just the reason her mother had chosen to live there.

But all of it was gone, just because one mistake on her part. A small mistake that snowballed into something way bigger then anything that could be fixed with a "sorry". Much bigger then that...
Maia kept her monster deep inside after that. She slowly pushed it further and further down, until it seemed like it never surfaced anymore. But when her temper flared, she could feel it churning from deep within, waiting. She promised herself she would never let it out and that she would never get close to anyone ever again.

Don't make promises you can't keep.