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Ok I just wanted to say I used my experience here when I first started wearing makeup. I find it realistic and i thought I looked good! Lol! Keep this is in mind when you read this.

This chapter looks into the life of Maxine Karofsky for the first time - and she's enjoying herself. This will be split in two parts since it was getting way too long.

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Chapter 14

8:45pm

Maxine looked at her alarm clock when she is done with homework. She spent two and half hours on useless information... According to her. She had a term paper due that week and it was giving her a headache.

She was glad her homework was finished.

"Still too early for bed. Honestly, what am I supposed to do now? Mom is working late and I'm BORED!" Maxine sighs, frustrated.

She wiped her hands on her legs smoothing out her pants. Then she straightened out her hair, getting up from her desk chair to grab a brush on her nightstand to comb out her bangs. Once she was done with that Maxine stretched and yawned even though she wasn't tired.

Maxine turned her alarm clock radio on and decided to play some music to ease her boredom. She blew kisses to the air as she sang along to one of her favorite songs, turning up the radio some, blasting music through out the room.

I'm a punk rock prom queen

Brown paper magazine

Hotter than you've ever seen

Everywhere and between

I'm a ten ticket thrill ride

Don't you wanna come inside?

Five star triple threat

Hardest of the hard to get

No one's little red corvette

Ain't seen nothing like me yet

It took 6 whole hours

And 5 long days

For all your lies to come undone

And those three small words

Were way too late.

Satisfied with the song Maxine danced freely around her room! Arms up, hips twisted right then left, spinning and spinning which she loved to do all day long. Her signature move was spinning around. She could do it for hours and not get sick. As the short song she ended couldn't stop smiling and laughing! That's when Maxine got an idea... Youtube.

Maxine face brightened. Her whole mood perked up!

"I needed that!"

She grabs her laptop, turns it on and goes straight to Youtube and watches videos on fashion tips and makeup tutorials.

After a while when she was done looking at videos she looked over her laptop, her eyes went to her treasure chest at the end of her bed. With a ornery smile Maxine got up from her bed, set the laptop down and opened her chest. She rummaged around until she found what she was looking for... Her E.L.F. makeup kit.

"About time I play with this." Maxine twirls the box in her hands as she goes to the mirror by her bathroom. She halted, just for a second. Not because she was sad and going to chicken out of making herself feel good. No, quite the opposite. Maxine was happy! She finally wanted to celebrate coming into her own and this was the way to do it.

Maxine winks at herself in the mirror and she couldn't stop smiling... Her cheeks hurt! But she didn't care!

She rips open the cardboard box in record speed not caring about the box itself and takes out the makeup kit. The BEAUTIFUL array of colorful eyeshadows and lipglosses and blushes made her face glow. She was so excited! She couldn't wait to try everything on! She had to control her emotions. She was getting TOO excited!

Maxine looked down at her green V-neck T-shirt and came to the conclusion that she needed to change so she wouldn't get her shirt or clothes dirty with makeup- makeup is messy after all.

Maxine goes in her closet searching and searching... Until she finds an old regular black V-neck shirt that she wouldn't care gets if it dirty. She puts it on and heads right back to her makeup.

She swatches a few eyeshadows and lipsticks on the back of her hand to get an idea of what look to go for. This will be her first EVER attempt at anything like this. She wanted and needed it to be perfect.

Maxine found some of the eyeshadows chalky and hard to show up on her hand. You get what you pay for but it cheap and some of it was good for the price. She frowned, until she saw a bright yellow eyeshadow that she REALLY wanted to try! She swatched it and it showed up BEAUTIFULLY and pigmented on her hand.

Maxine got excited again.

Maxine couldn't wait anymore. She dug right into her makeup. A few minutes into her transformation Maxine couldn't help but frown.

This was harder than any of the tutorials she watched made it look. She kept messing up and having to start over. Eyeshadow dropping down all over her face!

"Dammit! Dammit! Dammit!...What am I doing wrong?" Maxine pouted. This wasn't going the way she wanted. She teared up, water rimming her eyes as she looked desperatly at herself in the mirror noting the really messy HORRIBLE makeup job and she only just started!

She realized something, those girls were probably doing there makeup since they were teens, something she wasn't allowed to do until now and even then they probably struggled like she was. They probably had sisters, girlfriends or thier moms helping them.

Maxine was an only child, she had no girlfriends and her mom wouldn't approve of this.

Maxine was all alone.

A perfect tear streamed down her face as she wiped her third attempt at makeup off with a wet soapy rag. Most of it didn't want to come off so she struggled a bit. Once her face was clean, free of eyeshadow fallout Maxine looked at herself hard in the mirror, looking at her reflection.

"What am I doing wrong?" She asked herself again. That's when she remembered something. The girls in the videos she studied always tapped off thier brushes to make sure powder wouldn't go everywhere.

Maxine smacked her head at her stupidness and started over, THIS time making sure she tapped off the excess product with her brushes that came with the kit, so she wouldn't make a mess. The brushes were complete shit but they would have to do for now. Again you get what you pay for and it was cheap.

"There we go!" Maxine took a deep breath and continued to put her makeup on. She sang softly in her mirror.

Girls just wanna have fun! Oh girls just wanna have fuuuuun!

Singing helped ease her nerves some. And in no time she was complete.

The singing made it go faster although she probably spent a good hour an a half on herself.

Maxine took a deep breath and really studied herself in the mirror. She looked BEAUTIFUL... Well it wasn't that bad for her first attempt.

She blew kisses in the mirror, practising her sexy poses. She felt silly... But she also felt pretty which was an added bonus and that's all that mattered in Maxine's eyes.

She studied herself further. Her eyes had that pretty yellow sparkly eyeshadow on them which made her hazel eyes POP!

She turned her cheek to the left and studied her blush that had a long bold stripe from ear to her just below her mouth. It was a regular peach blush, she thought complimented her eyes and went well with her skin tone. Then she studied her glossy pale peachy lips. She exploded! a wonderful exploding giggle! She LOVED that she looked like a BOLD beautiful bird! She was estactic!

"My gosh! This is stunning! I am BEAUTIFUL!" Maxine exclaimed excitedly.

It wasn't bad. Not really. It could've been worse. Maxine sighed in relief and stepped away from the mirror, patting herself on the back satified with her makeup results.

The makeup looked great with her green T-shirt and blue jeans that she changed into.

Now to find something else to do.

Maxine looked all around her room and couldn't find anything interesting there so she looked at her clock again, 10:59pm it read, she didn't realize it was soooo late! She wasn't tired though, she was TOO happy to sleep! Wouldn't anyone be?

She hadn't even had dinner yet and she was starving!

Maxine hurried her out her room and down the stairs to the kitchen, dancing around and really feeling herself. She deserved this. Not being able to be herself for such A LONG TIME.. Maxine deserved to be herself and happy just ONCE in her life. Just once. Was it too much to ask?

Maxine opened the fridge and grabbed a regular salad (only good thing her mom left for her to eat.) And the fat-free salad dressing that her mom insisted on that she eat.

Maxine was furious! She SHOULD be able to eat what she pleases! Maxine sighed frustated heading to the living to eat. She was never allowed to eat in the living room. Maggie forbidded her to.

Maxine surmised that she was here alone and could do what she wanted. She took a brave step with her salad and made herself comfortable on her couch, careful not to make a mess. After all she wanted no evidence of food on her mom's furniture. She would never hear the end of it.

Maxine turned the T.V. on and enjoyed some late night cartoons.

Several minutes later after Maxine washed her empty plate and wiped down the kitchen counters, Maxine spun around happily enjoying her freedom.

She was so blissful! She didn't want this to end. She FINALLY got to be herself! What she wanted for years!

Again that's when Maxine got an idea. She retreated to her mom's closet (now her's) downstairs and found what she was looking for.

She smiled as bright as her future seemed.

Maxine couldn't wait to play around in the closet. She found it fun! That's where she found her emerald necklace, who KNOWS what else she might find?!

The possibilties were endless. Maxine's goal was to look as best as she could and she thought her mom had hidden treasures that would achieve in her passing as herself.

She needed the world to see and feel how she does on the inside. This was the only way to do that.

Maxine's head was in a whirlwind as the day winds down and she could finally catch her breath. Her dancing and singing and her VERY first attempt at makeup, it all made her feel so... joyful!

And the night wasn't even over, it was just beginning.

"By God, yes it is!" Maxine exclaimed as she reached the closet.

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AN: Thank you for reading! Part two coming soon... ;) Have a nice day!-ILOVESMESOMEGLEEX3