The pale porcelain cheek began to NATURALLY shade the opaque color of violet. A juvenile's head peaked through the creaky wooden door-the moaning of the wood raises the shoulders of the adolescent, eyelids screaming to shut to avoid any certain eye contact of her shell of a dad. ' If you could call him that.' A flash of memories threatened to overcome her BITTERNESS towards her father, the happy aroma of her own mother encasing arms around a small torso. The laughter of her parents in unison. It's something she wished she could have again! Those memories were waved away with a flick of a wrist, her feet placing one after another. Trying to sound CONFIDENT as well as QUIET. 'Do those two mix? No. That is exactly the reason why the father woke up to slur these affectionate nothings.'
"What are you doin'! C'mere…"
A tiny intake of breath was all but needed to notice the scent of alcohol lingering from the couch itself, bottles scattered around the dining area which deems it unusable. The blonde was so tempted, to scream, to yell, to talk BACK to the man-but she knows all to well the outcome.
Forefingers rise to touch her cheek once more…
Not again.
The duffle bag that hangs around her neck was hiding behind her figure, in attempts to fool her father in her actual whereabouts. "I'm going… To take Moe for a walk. She needs it, you know…?" Emerald hues were staring at the floor, teeth gritted while she awaited a response. Was it to be a hand, or a murmured 'Okay'.
"Get me a case on the way home."
An exhale, the request meaning enough time to get to somewhere-ANYWHERE far away from her current situation. Her and Moe. That's all she wanted. That's all she needed.
Door was SLAMMED in her final act of defiance, eyes resting upon the soft gaze known as Moe. It was one of the final gifts the teenagers mother has been able to give her.
Fingers encase around the leash that kept Moe at bay, a final glance towards the house known as the 'Albarn' household. Head held high, grip strong against the baby dragons leash as the faintest of grins appear.
"My names Maka Albarn, and no one's stopping me."
