So this is my new story! I hope you'll like it! I must admit that I haven't let my beta reader check my grammar because she's just sooo busy at the moment and I can't wait any longer :p So sorry if my grammar isn't correct all the time, I do my best and re-read my stories a hundred times before I put them out so I guess it'll be okay. If it's not you can tell me and I'll change it. Maybe it's not perfect but hey, I'm not perfect too and people still like me ;-)
1. Maura Isles
Meet Maura Isles. A sixteen year old, good looking girl with honey blonde curls, soft green eyes and a slim posture. She's smart and sweet, she loves science, nature and books and she is a huge fan of crime shows on TV. She lives with her adoptive parents in one of the wealthy neighborhoods from Boston, safely surrounded by the "good" people. Maura was adopted when she was only four years old and raised by the wealthy Isles family.
Constance Isles, Maura's adoptive mother, was an artist who's always busy with a new project, traveling around the world or whatever was happening around her and her wealthy friends. She loved Maura but she wasn't able to fully bond with her daughter. Partly because she wasn't really a motherly type and partly because Maura was a very reserved kid and Constance didn't know how to deal with that. So she left the job of raising Maura to their nanny, since Maura was five.
Richard Isles, Maura's adoptive father, was a business man, mostly away for business deals or a congress. When he was at home he sat at his desk in his office, starting early in the morning and not showing up until dinner. Richard was a good business man, able to handle the most difficult situations but with his daughter he had a hard time being affectionate.
As a young kid Maura learned that she didn't really fit into her parents schedules. Often she was left with her nanny while her parents were busy with their work or their friends. Maura knew they loved her very much and that she got everything a girl could ask for, but it felt like there was something missing, she just didn't know what that must be.
At some point, Maura thought that maybe her parents would love her more when she studied hard and didn't ask for much. So she got good grades and tried not to bother her parents too much when they were at home. It worked for a little while, but eventually not asking much turned into not getting much either. With the time, Maura became more silent and reserved, handling things on her own, not showing anything to the people around her because she thought it didn't matter.
So while her parents thought that everything was good because Maura got good grades, grew up as a beautiful young woman and looked happy, there was a lot they didn't know about.
Maura's nanny Carry, is a loving middle-aged woman and the only one who could break trough Maura's silent shield. Sometimes they talked and Carry knew more about Maura then her parents ever did. Carry also was the one that showed Maura the wonderful world of books. She took Maura to the city library for the first time when she was six, showing her around at the kids section and they took some books with them to read before bedtime.
That's how Maura fell in love with books. They gave her comfort and took her loneliness away for a while. So Maura read and she read a lot, just to be in her own world of comfort.
Outside her comfort world of books Maura went to a private girls school and followed ballet lessons. She was a good student but she didn't like to go to school or ballet because it was another world of people who didn't seem to like her.
Starting at a young age, kids called her Maura-the-bo-ra and shut her out of their games.
Maura tried for many years to interact with the kids around her, being polite, helping them with their homework, sharing her lunch. She even started wearing the kind of clothes she thought the other kids would like. But it always turned out that she got ignored or worse bullied, because the other kids thought that she was different.
Maura didn't understand why other kids looked at her as if she was different. She tried so hard to be just like them, to be the person she thought they wanted her to be, she even tried to be less smart so they wouldn't think she was a show off (that was actually pretty hard because when she knew the answer her finger was in the air before she could think), but nothing worked.
Okay, maybe she didn't understand much about sports or jokes and maybe they didn't understand the facts that she was always telling about random things (another thing she just couldn't stop herself from doing). And while they got their information for an assignment from Google, Maura spend her days in the school library.
But just like her classmates Maura loved movies and swimming too. She was just never invited and she hated to go by herself.
So after many years of trying, there was nothing left and Maura got comfortable on her own.
Being on her own meant that she could do the things she liked without being criticized. So she spent her days reading or doing homework and sometimes she went to the museum or Carry took her shopping. When her parents had a party she showed up and had some small talk for a while until she could sneak out, back to her bedroom where she could read again.
Although she was comfortable on her own, there were still moments that she felt very lonely. When she saw her classmates having fun or when she read a book about two good friends, she wished she had a friend too. Just one friend, that liked her and wanted to spent time with her. One person who wouldn't judge, so that maybe Maura felt safe enough to be herself instead of the girl who always acts the way she thinks other people want her to act. Pleasing people so they will like or at least accept her.
But Maura doesn't know where to find that one person who will accept her. Probably she never would, because everyone in her life ignored her so why would there be someone who wouldn't?
It seemed like Maura was doomed to live without friends.
