Center of the Tooniverse
Chapter 1
There's something about cartoons that make us keep coming back to them. Maybe it's the bright colors, the interesting storyline, or the relatable characters. Whatever the reason, people seem to love them. But no one needed them more then Madison. Usually called Maddie, she was the baby of an unplanned pregnancy. During the first few years of her life, her parents seemed decent to her. They fed her well, taught her to walk, and gave her nice clothes. But by the age of three, they did nothing but abuse her. Maddie didn't know why her parents were doing this, she didn't recall doing anything wrong. But here she was, every day, getting hit.
But every night, after her parents went to bed, that's when she would sneak downstairs, and turn on the TV. She would always watch cartoons. She adored everything about them. The timing, the dialogue, the humor, sometimes she would laugh so hard, she had to laugh in a pillow to avoid waking her parents up. It always cheered her up. At school, things weren't much better. The students would pick on her for being sensitive and always crying. Whenever this happened, she would repeat the cartoons in her head to make her feel better.
One night, her parents caught her. She was scolded for being up way past her bedtime, and wasting that time watching nonsense. They locked her in her room, where she cried for hours. She slowly looked at her window, and got an idea. She grabbed every piece of clothing she could find in her room and tied them together. She tied on end to her bedpost and clutched the other end. She made her way down the window, and ran as far away as she could from her house, into the deep, dark, woods.