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She stood there in the dark, shaking, she had always been afraid of the dark, despite the fact she had turned thirteen five minutes ago, and she was already abused enough, she still dreaded when her mother would switch off the bedroom light, she sighed, and let herself fall backwards onto the hard mattress on the floor, she curled up under the curtain she used as a blanket, and dozed off. The thing crept closer, “you’ll be fine,” it said, she stumbled back, suddenly, one of the beasts tentacle like arms grabbed her, and dragged her away… She sat up in a cold sweat, she exhaled, it was horrible that her birthday was the week after she moved, and her first day of school was today, she was to suffer today, her mother entered the room, “happy birthday bratt, here’s your prize for this years work” her mother tossed a box wrapped in newspapers, “thank you so much mother!” she said, she ripped open the paper, and a beautiful music pal was awaiting her” “really!?” she said, the music pal was her dream, it could play any song, she had gotten A’s all of the last year, done everything for her mother and mowed the neighbours lawns to pay for her mother’s addiction to alcohol. “Now get up and get ready for your school idiot” said her mother, walking out, the girl laid back on her mattress, most likely older than her. She pulled on some jeans and a ripped-up T shirt, all her clothes were third hand or ruined from when her mother had beaten her, she only wore black as blood stains would stain anything light coloured, when she stepped out of her box room in their small two bed apartment, her mother chuckled, “you need to wear the uniform, stupid!” she tossed a bag at her, the girl stepped back in and changed, “is the skirt necessary!?” she yelled, “OF COURSE IT IS YOU UNGRATFUL BRATT!” “got it…” she stepped out a second time, “off you go” mother commanded, and shoved her out of the front door. She exhaled and began her walk to the new school, she thought of how she was to go about her first day, she then remembered her new music pal, she slipped it on, a voice then activated, “please tell me what you would like to listen to with your Freddy fazbears music pal!” “…. Something that’ll help me live through school….” She whispered into the speaker by her mouth, “I have found a playlist, would you like to listen to it?” it asked, “yes please!” she said, outside the apartment at this point, and then she smiled slightly as a good, really good rap song began, as she walked, she spied out the other children walking to school, although she had lived in this town for ages, she had moved too far to stay in her old school, where her crush used to go, apparently, she had gone missing, which upset the girl, Charlie, she knew that if her mother found out she had been lesbian since she was eight she would’ve been shipped off to a adoption centre, so she kept her feelings to herself at all times, suddenly, she realized someone had been yelling at her, she had been so lost in thought thinking about Charlie and the new school that she had knocked into someone, she pulled off the headphones promptly and apologized, not very nicely though, “sorry mate, bye” she tried to pull her headphones back on, but the boys friend grabbed her wrist, she gritted her teeth, “let go now” she said, looking the red haired boy in the eye, he looked like the kind of kid who would have an army of girls chasing him, she looked back at his friend, a fox mask on the side of his head, “hmm… Ronald Weasley and harry potter with a fox mask” she said sarcastically, “what? Is your father gonna hear about this?” she said mockingly, she proceeded to pull her wrist away, slapped the red-haired boy and grabbed the fox boy by the collar, “accept an apology next time, hear me?” she said