This was one of those things you just can't get out of your head. I had only heard one part of this song once and it just stuck. Normally I don't go for country or listen to the radio, but this day I happened to come across this song and I just had to look it up.
I know that Myrtle was in Ravenclaw, and I know McGonagall probably wasn't a first year when Myrtle was, but I just needed her for this. I also know Myrtle was killed by the basilisk, but that's what fan fiction is about right? Bending cannon.
Please help stop the child abuse. No matter how much you or some other child may be punished for speaking out, if it rescues them or even let's them know someone cares, it's worth it. No one deserves to live ordie feeling like no one loves them. And who knows? Maybe Alyssa won't have to lie any more.
Myrtle Lies
My little girl met a new friend
Just the other day
On the playground at school
Between the tires and the swings.
Myrtle was excited, today was her first day at Hogwarts!
She had been sorted into Hufflepuff. It was supposed to be the house that housed the people no one else wanted, but she didn't mind.
No one had wanted her before, why should it be any different now?
She was all smiles, shaking everyone's hand and trying to make as many friends as possible.
No one seemed to care.
There was one girl, though, who returned her smile and said determinedly, "You're my best friend now Myrtle!" no doubt the girl was a Gryffindor. Her name was Minerva.
Myrtle thought she was free.
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But she came home with tear-filled eyes
And she said to me, "Daddy Alyssa Lies."
Minerva tried to stop it, brave and noble as she was, "but some people can just feel fear and weakness." Myrtle thought.
She had hidden herself in the toilet for what seemed like the longest time. Olive Hornby was a Slytherin first year who had nothing but mean things to say to Myrtle.
There was a banging on the stall door. She whimpered and huddled closer, sure that Olive had come to finish with more than a few blood insults.
BANG! The stall nearest the door. Myrtle hugged her knees to her chest.
BANG! Three stalls down. She closed her eye tight.
BANG! Getting closer. She flinched, trying not to scream out.
BANG! The stall next to hers. She was crying now.
BANG! She threw her arms up.
It was Minerva. For once she knew the warmth of having someone soothe her fears instead of cause them.
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The year was over and the train was pulling into Kings Cross. Myrtle tried not to cry, she really did! But the tears spilled down her cheeks as she hugged Minerva goodbye, hoping she would get to see her again.
Minerva was crying too.
She hung back from the crowd, watching Myrtle meet her father on the platform. She was obviously trying to hide it, but she was scared.
And then they disappeared.
The tears ran down her cheeks as she caught up with her own father. "Daddy Myrtle lies."
He was a bit startled as he looked down to his crying daughter. She was really hurt by this. "We'll talk about this at home sweetheart."
Minerva had never wanted to go home less.
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Well I just brushed it off at first
Cause I didn't know how much my little girl had been hurt
Or the things she had seen
I wasn't ready when I said, "You can tell me"
Her father sat her down on his knee in his study. "You can tell me now Minerva."
He wasn't ready for what came next.
"Myrtle lies. She tells the teachers that she likes to play with candles, but she's afraid of fire. She tells the other students that she keeps forgetting about the missing stair, but it only happens after she comes back from weekends with her father. Myrtle lied and said she couldn't wait to get home, but she looked so scared Daddy. Can't we help her?"
Minerva had tears running down her cheeks as she said all this. Her father hugged her close and told her it would be alright, and that she should go to bed.
He just brushed it off as over-imagination.
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And she said
"Alyssa lies in the classroom
Alyssa lies everyday at school
Alyssa lies to the teachers
As she tries to cover every bruise."
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My little girl laid her head down that night to go to sleep
As I stepped into the room I heard her say a prayer so soft and sweet
"God bless my mom and my dad
and my new friends Alyssa
oh I know she needs you bad."
He crept into her room to see if she was asleep, but al he heard was a soft praying. Her mother had been a devout christian, for all that she was a witch, and Minerva felt as if this was the only way to be close to her now that she was gone.
"Go bless my mummy up in heaven, and my daddy who takes care of me really good. Most of all, bless Myrtle cause she needs you most of all, cause she lies."
He closed the door softly and sank against the wall and put his head in his hands.
This was serious.
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"Cause Alyssa lies to the classroom
Alyssa lies everyday at school
Alyssa lies to the teachers
As she tries to cover every bruise
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I had the worst night of sleep in years
As I tried to think of a way to calm her fears
I knew just what it was I had to do
But when we got to school on Monday I heard the news.
He tossed and turned all night thinking bout Minerva's friend. He wanted to tell her everything would be alright, but he had thins sinking feeling.
He decided that the best course of action would be to go back to Hogwarts with Minerva and report it.
But he was too late.
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My little girl asked my why everybody looked so sad
The lump in my throat grew bigger
With every question that she asked
Until I felt the tears run down my cheeks
And I told her that Alyssa wouldn't be at school today
He felt the hot tears running down his face as Minerva looked frantically around for the little girl.
Everyone was wearing black.
"Where is she daddy, and why is everyone so sad?" she asked million questions, but she asked slowly as if her voice had weights attached to it.
He choked back a sob as he tried to explain that Myrtle wasn't going to be there.
Ever.
"Myrtle's gone, she's with the angels now."
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Cause Alyssa doesn't lie in the classroom
Alyssa doesn't lie anymore at school
Alyssa lies with Jesus
Cause there was nothing anyone would do.
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Tears filled my eyes when my little girl asked me why
Alyssa lies
"Why daddy, why did she lie? Why did she have to lie until no one could do anything?"
Her voice was cracking.
He hugged her closed, letting her cry into his jacket. "I don't know sweetheart, I don't know."
"Daddy tell me why."
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Alyssa lies.