Hope you like it! It's my first story, like ever. Kind of loosely based off Prom Night.
I don't own anything! Sorry.
The downstairs door opened, and Maya walked inside. Closing the door softly behind her, she threw her keys on the table beside the door and put her bag down by her feet. She ran upstairs, past her parents room and into her own, for a moment, before coming back out and going downstairs again where she saw her stepfather watching a football game.
"Dad? Oh forget it, you probably just fell asleep. Like you always do." The many bottles of beer in front of him, only confirmed her suspicion. Sighing she ran back upstairs, to her little stepbrother's room. She could hear his video game from the driveway and wanted to yell at him to turn it down. Slowly opening the door, she heard the sound of crying and becoming more and more curious, she opened it to reveal her brother was covered in blood and hiding underneath the bed. "Jake?" She quickly ran over to him, "What's wrong? Why are you covered in blood?"
"He's here," He whispered and she looked at him confused.
"Whose here?"
He didn't get to finish his sentence, because soon she heard the sound of screaming and quickly hid underneath the bed beside Jake.
"Maya, what's going to happen?" He whispered and she bit her lip, covering his bloodied face with her hand quickly she shook her head. He began to whimper and hid his face in her neck. Pretty soon, the screaming got louder and she saw her mother fall in front of her, she kept Jake's face hidden and let out a gasp, but she saw her mother shake her head.
Above her, she saw someone screaming her face, and as they got closer, she noticed it was her biological father.
What the fuck was he doing there? She wondered.
"You can not keep Maya away from me!" He screamed in her face. "She's my daughter too!"
"You're not stable enough for her!" Her mother fought back. "Why do you think I kept her all these years?" She demanded, and then slapped him. That only enraged him further. The next thing Maya knew, her father had pushed the knife in his hand forward, and it went through her mother's shirt. Maya jumped as her mother turned her head towards her. "I love you." She whispered and then her eyes closed and her breathing stopped. Maya's eyes widened.
"That's what you deserve you bitch!" Her father yelled at her and without another word, he was gone.
Maya slowly crawled from her hiding spot, taking Jake with her. She picked him up and kept his face hidden so he wouldn't have to see what had happened. Running as fast as she could down the stairs, she ran outside and started to wave her hands, screaming as she did.
As soon as she had put Jake on the ground, however, her vision gave out, and she fell to the ground, everything turning to black moments later.
One month later…
She straightened the hoodie on her head as she walked up the steps to the front of the school. She walked past a group of people who were laughing and talking and into the building where she went straight into the office. She walked up to the front desk, and the woman looked at her.
"Hi, may I help you?" She asked, looking over at her with her glasses.
"I'm Maya Matlin, I'm here to uhm.. get my schedule." She said quietly and the woman nodded.
It took a few moments, but she handed it to her, along with a booklet. "Here you go, I hope you enjoy Degrassi."
Maya nodded and turned around again. She hurried out of the office and into the hallway, where she just stopped and looked around. Her breathing soon went back to normal and she took her schedule out. Something fell at her feet and she picked it up, only to find her locker number was written on it.
"Hey, watch out! Dude!" She heard and stood up just in time to feel someone literally knock her down to the floor. Her stuff went everywhere and she looked up at the boy who had run into her.
"What the hell! Why don't you watch where you're going?" She muttered quietly to herself, as the guy immediately started to apologize profusely. He gave her his hand but she just brushed it off. "I cant get myself up."
"Okay…" He said and pulled his hand away. He seemed to notice all her stuff and quickly gathered it as his friend just shook his head behind him. "Uh, here." He told her, handing her, her schedule, locker number and book. "I didn't mean to knock you down."
"It's fine, really." She answered and then stood up, grabbing her back.
"Uh, do you have a name?" He asked her.
She rolled her eyes, "Maya. Yours?"
"Campbell, but you can… you can just call me Cam."
"Hey!" His friend caught his attention, "Yo, we gotta get to practice."
"Right," He nodded at his friend, "I'll see you later, I guess."
She fake-smiled, "Wouldn't count on it." And with that she rolled her eyes and turned around, walking down the hallway, she followed the numbers until it reached the one she needed. Spinning the combination, she was able to open her locker, only to find it filled with a bunch of pink fur and way too much girly stuff for her. "Uh… this is kind of awkward." She said into the mirror.
"Who are you talking to? And why are you looking through my locker? How did you even get the combination? Are you some kind of freak?" She heard behind her and spun around to see a girl with fluffy curly dark hair, and narrowed dark brown eyes.
"No? I got assigned this locker, I'm new." Maya handed her the card with her locker number and combination on it, and she looked it over before sighing and giving it back.
"This school is so cheap, I swear." She then smiled at Maya and held out her hand. "I'm Tori."
"Maya." Maya shook her hand, "Uh… why are you so peppy? Are you a cheerleader? You are, aren't you?"
"Wow, good guess." Tori actually seemed surprised by that. Maya rolled her eyes. "Well, since we're locker partners, I guess that means were friends, right?"
"Sure?" Maya answered, raising her eyebrows. "But uhm… I think that I should probably put some stuff in here… not that there's any room, but I'll do my best."
"Oh!" Tori put her hand to her forehead. "Silly me! I can just help you with that." She soon moved some stuff around and Maya actually found that she had more room that she started with. Tori smiled at her, "There you go."
"Thanks." Maya blinked and then put what she needed inside of it, before putting her hand on the door and looking at her locker-mate. "Do you need anything?" Tori shook her head, so she slammed it shut. Tori immediately hooked her arm in Maya's, and then walked down the hall with her. "What are you—"
"So, your name is Maya, how old are you?" Tori interrupted her.
"Thirteen." Maya answered, "But I'm in grade nine."
"I'm in grade nine too! But I'm fourteen, I'll be fifteen in February."
"Oh, well, I'll be fourteen in December."
"Around Christmas?"
"Sure." Maya answered, and then handed Tori her schedule, "Mind showing me where my first class is?"
Tori squealed so loud, Maya had to cover her ear.
"I'd love to!"
Just great, she thought.
"How was your first day?"
Maya looked up at her aunt, Mel who was going through bills on the couch when she walked in.
She shrugged, "it was okay. I have a very peppy cheerleader for a locker-mate." She answered, "Other than that, it was just like any other day."
Her aunt nodded and walked over to her. She gently touched her cheek, "How are you doing?"
"Fine." Maya answered, as her aunt gave her a knowing look. "I haven't had any flashbacks, or any nightmares and I haven't been seeing things either." She said, and her aunt nodded.
"Okay. You'll tell me if you do?" Maya nodded, "And you've been keeping up with your medication?" Maya nodded again. "Alright." Mel took a seat on the couch and continued to go through the envelopes.
Maya slowly took a seat next to her. "Have you heard anything from Jake?" She asked, hopefully. Mel looked at up at her giving her an apologetic look.
"I'm sorry sweetie, but his mother isn't letting him see or talk to anybody. She says he still needs time to process what happened."
"But he didn't see anything!" Maya suddenly stood up. "I saw everything! I protected him, I—"
"I know, I know, sweetie, okay? I know what you did, but his mother is a bit reluctant to let anyone in. And understandably so. Once he's better, I'm sure you'll get a phone call right away."
Maya bit her lip and nodded. "Fine, whatever. I'm just gonna go lay down, okay?" Mel nodded and with that, Maya picked up her bag, and walked into the other room.
Ever since the incident, she was forced to leave her hometown of Ajax and move in with her aunt who lived in Toronto in a nice apartment just outside of the city. It was about an hour bus ride to get to school, but she didn't really mind it as it helped clear her mind.
She let her bag drop beside her and then flopped face down on the bed, letting out a groan when her phone went off.
"What now?" She muttered to herself, and grabbed it from her bag. She clicked the home screen and saw that she had a text from Tori.
Party tonight! You should come. You'll get to meet a lot of people from Degrassi. It'll be like your grand debut or something.
She instantly regretted giving Tori her number in that moment more than anything.
Grand debut? Are you kidding me?
Just come!
Maya sighed, it wouldn't hurt anything if she went. It would just help her adjust and make new friends—at least she hoped. Plus, if things really got bad she could just drink and feel numb for the rest of the night.
Alright, I'm in.
Okay, so Maya's very out of character here, as you can see. And she's got some issues and she's kind of rebellious. So yeah, everything shall be explained later on.