The girl lied on her bed looking up on the ceiling. It was the middle of the day and she was completely bored, just like every day had been for the past 16 years. Since her mother was out, she couldn't talk to her about who bored she was with her everyday life. Not that it would do anything; since her mother was very strict on things she could and couldn't do. She couldn't even go to town like her mother did every week to buy food. Where she got the money for the food all the time was a complete mystery to her. All the time she was hoping to ask her Mum if she could join her on a visit to the town at the bottom of the hill. But she never had a chance to ask. "I wish something interesting would happen" the girl says before sits up and grabs phone that was sitting at the end of her bead. She goes through her contacts till she finds the only number in it, her Mums number and hits dial. As the phone rings the girl plays with a bit of her Neon hot pink hair. Her mum's phone goes straight to phone message. The girl gets frustrated and throws the phone across the room and brings her knees to her face. "I can't believe her phones off, what if something was to happen to me while she's gone." She sighs before thumping back down her bead. For the next ten minutes she just sits there and stares at the ceiling before falling of sleep.
By the time her mother returned it was getting dark. "Meiko I'm home!" she calls when she enters the house. When no answer comes she goes and puts the food away before going to check up on her daughter. When she opens the door she sees the mess that's always there. Piles of dirty clothes, books across the floor and a broken phone in the corner. "She still didn't clean this mess up" she sighs as she closes the door and goes to get ready for a nice warm bath as Meiko snores her head off.
The next day the smell of cooking bacon awakens Meiko from her slumber amongst the rubbish in her room. With drool leaking outside of her mouth she runs down stairs to the kitchen where her mother is cooking by the oven. After hearing Meiko thunder down the stairs like an elephant her mother looks other her shoulder just as she enters the room. 'You're very loud you know that?"
"Who cares, now bring on the bacon!" Meiko yells as she sits down at the table jumping up and down in her seat. All her mother does is sighs and places a plate of bacon in front of her. "What no eggs?" Meiko says looking up at her mum with a smile across her face. "Oh, I'm sorry do you want eggs with that?" her mum says with a sarcastic look. Meiko waves her hand "Nah, who needs eggs when there's bacon evolved." After saying this Meiko, literally dives in head first into the bacon like a wild animal. "Meiko are you okay?" her mum says concerned. With a big toothy grin across her face, "Yeah never felt any better, why do you ask?" "No reason" she says before going to clean up the dishes.
By the time Meiko was finished eating breakfast, her mum had had washed the dishes, had a bath, done the laundry and made her bead. When Meiko went to was her dishes her mother called out "I'm going into town this afternoon and I'll be back tomorrow night." This was Meiko's chance to ask her mum. "Hey, mum I have a question to ask you" Her mum pops her head around the door. "About what?" Meiko places her dishes to dry before answering "Well, I was thinking since I'm 16 now, I was wondering if I could come with you going down to town." Her mother brings her whole body into the room. "Meiko we've been over this before" "But why can't I? Meiko yells angrily at her mother. "Because I said so!" she yells back. Meiko becomes shocked, never has her mother yelled at her before. Bursting into tears Meiko runs to her room and locks it. For a long time she cries before falling asleep.
By the time she wakes up her mother is gone and the sun is going down. Meiko rubs her eyes wondering what time it is and looks at the clock hanging above her door. The clock reads Five thirty. Meiko gets out of bed and goes to her bathroom to have a bath. When she gets out she changes into jeans with a white belt and a red hoddie with a striped pink and grey shirt underneath and closes the door before knocking on it three times. When she opens it she's in front of her house in the snow. Her feet don't seem to feel the cold as she walks out into it. After looking around for eyes that could be watching she lifts up her shirt and pulls out a tail. She watches it as it twitches around her. She flexes it to return movement to it since it had been hidden for a while. She looks up at the sky at the falling snowflakes and says "What am I?"