21-
Lucy Carrigan was never a fan of mornings.
She and her brother were very alike in that aspect.
So when the doorbell rang at five in the morning, Lucy made the wise decision to ignore it. But for some reason, the doorbell didn't seem to know what it was doing wrong. It kept ringing, and ringing, and ringing, and- "All right! All right! I'm coming!"
Lucy groped around in the darkness, careful not to hit Jude (the man could sleep like a log), to find her robe and sleepily made her way towards the buzzing door.
"Whoizit?" She squinted though the peephole to see a scantily clad woman with mascara running down here face outside.
"It's Maggie." The girl whispered and it took Lucy a minute to remember just who Maggie was.
"Maggie Mae?" She unlocked the door and opened it to let the other woman in, "What are you doing here?" Maggie sniffles a little in response, and Lucy realizes something was wrong. Maggie was hardly the type to cry much less sniffle.
"Is it my brother? Did he hurt you? I swear I'll kill him." Maggie lets out a choked laugh and shakes her curls.
"No, no, it's me, it's… it's always me." Maggie looked ready to dissolve back into tears again and Lucy led her over to the couch.
"It's alright," She smiled sympathetically, "You can sleep here tonight, and we'll talk in the morning, okay?"
Maggie nodded and tugs at the hem of her short dress, "Do you have anything I could change into?"
Lucy lets out a little 'oh!' and hurries back into her and Jude's dark room to get Maggie something more comfortable. When she comes back out, Maggie's made herself into a ball on the couch.
"Lucy?" She whispers when the other woman gets closer, "Could you do me a favor and not tell Max I'm here?"
Lucy nods, although she's not sure why, and hands Maggie the clothes before heading back to her bed.
Crawling under the covers, where Jude's kept the bed warm, Lucy can't help but feel like this isn't going to end well.
A/N- I know, no Max for two chapters!
Sorry it's been a while, I've been finishing a lot of projects for school right now. And I got my wisdom teeth removed today, so my mouth is in agony.
But reveiws might make it feel better!