A Week!
Lil Reaper:
This is my first time posting a story so I hope it comes out okay. Let me know what you think. Its about a week in the life of Maggie Williams and her daughter Lanie. When Maggie talks it will be regular. When Lanie talks it will bold. This is kind of an introduction. The first chapter will be up soon.
My name is Lanie Williams. "Tough as nails" Don't mess with me" Lanie. Don't I look sweet? You should have seen me as a little girl in pigtails and a dirty dress. I'd show you pictures but thanks to my mom and her disasterous love life I have nothing from my old life. Mom says I get my attitude from my dad. I never met him so I have no idea. I have no real goals in life. At least thats what everyone tells me. My only real interests are reading my tarot cards and making clay pots. So I don't know what I want to be. Like I'm the only teenager who doesn't. Its finally my senior year and of course my mom moves me to some tiny town so I get to be the new girl.
My name is Maggie Williams and this is what I looked like two weeks ago. I look a little different now. People have told me all my life I'm beautiful and talented. For some reason I have trouble believing them so my self esteem is low. I guess thats the reason I've been with so many Mr Wrongs. At least I hope thats the reason. All I ever wanted was to give Lanie a stable home life but as you'll soon see I've failed miserably. My last boyfriend was abusive and one night after a brutal beating I decided I'd had enough. I drained my bank accounts and Lanie and I snuck away in the middle of the night. We had to move to a small town so I could afford a house. Lanie is upset with me but I'm sure she'll get over it.
This is our new house?! This house is so tiny, my first thought was my mom has got to be insane. Our last house was huge. It had a pool, a hot tub, a gym, and my bedroom was massive. My new room is the size of my old closet. No joke. I have room for a bed, a bookcase, and maybe a desk. No pool! No hot tub! This was so unfair. I live in a tiny town with no friends, in a house the size of a shack. Can this possibly get any worse?
Even though Lanie didn't say anything I could tell by looking into her eyes she wan't happy about the new house. Sure its alot smaller than our old house but I'm sure once she gives it a chance she'll grow to love it. Not that she's got much of a choice. This house was the best I could afford. The realtor said the neighbors were very friendly and there were some really great schools nearby. To me those are the important things.
-Little-CJ-:
Great Start. I wonder what happens next.
They are two different people, this is going to be very exiting.
Lil Reaper:
Chapter One
Day One
Remember when I said things couldn't get any worse? I was wrong. So very wrong. Mom came into my room with a hideous blue uniform and a huge grin and said "Congratulations Lanie! You've been accepted to St Katherine's Prep School." Like thats something I'm going to be excited about. And if that wasn't bad enough she made me put the uniform on so she could take pictures. I can't begin to tell you how much I hate wearing uniforms. After she took my picture mom started acting really weird. She went from being all proud mom to paranoid mom. She was watching the clock and hurrying me along. I sense another disaster.
Oh god I feel so guilty. I promised Lanie when we moved that things would be different. I was going to give up dating for a bit while I worked on getting us settled in and finding a job. I meant it all until i met Leod at the grocery store, we hit it off right away. And even after I found out he was married to a former model and had a toddler and another one due any day I still planned on inviting him over. After I told Lanie she was going to St Katherine's, I hurried her out of the house to school so I could call him. I have to keep telling myself I can just be friends with him.
Ok so I couldn't help myself. He's so smart, so handsome, and so charming. He smells so good and after my beating my self esteem is very low. Its been so long since a man has made me feel this special. He knows just what I need to hear and deep down I know he's only saying it to get me into bed. And I let him. It sickens me to think I'm never going to change. I know the routine by heart and unfortunately so does Lanie.
I must have fallen asleep because when I wake up I'm completely alone. No note or anything. He's not the first married man I slept with and they all usually end the same way. When Lanie finds out she'll probably say the same thing she said the past couple of times. "No note, mom? So there's nothing to prove he was even here except your stained sheets! You look so surprised. Did you really expect him to leave his perfect family for US?!" No I don't but it doesn't stop me.
What have I done? I lied to myself and even worse I lied to Lanie. I can't believe I'm really that pathetic. The guilt overwhelms me and I drop to my knees to pray and plead to who ever to give me some self control. I can't stop the tears from pouring down my cheeks and spilling onto the carpet.
I get off the bus of my first hellish day at school and I can see my mom on her knees in her bedroom, pleading and crying. I know what this means. And sure enough I see Leod, the married man I'm not supposed to know about hurrying off down the street. I run into my room to read my Tarot cards. They say life is going to be very difficult. Obviously. Mom is crying her eyes out in the bathtub which is part one of the Broken Heart routine. Part two is to cook us a family meal. And the finale is mom crying on my shoulder about how she doesn't understand what happened.
Spaghetti. Mom's favorite Broken Heart food. Don't get me wrong I like it but mom makes it everytime she gets a broken heart. You see where I'm going with this? I'm not really in the mood for a family meal but I put on a fake smile for mom. I guess talking about the weather is safe.
The moment she sits down across me I know she knows. I don't give her enough credit. She's been through all this enough times to know the signs. Part of me hopes she'll yell at me about lying but she plasters that fake smile on her face. And when she starts lamely talking about the weather I have to struggle to hold back the tears.
After our horribly long family meal I changed out of my uniform so I could relax. I decided to read the book my new English teacher gave me. It wasn't required reading but it beat listening to my mom's pity party. She banged this around in the kitchen for a while then gave up when I ignored her Maybe she's starting to get the hint.
I finally got tired and went to bed. I have no idea what mom did. I felt a little guilty for ignoring my mom. I woke up a little later and heard the familiar sound of my mom's breathing and I knew she was laying on my floor. It may seem strange but when I was younger I had really bad nightmares. No matter how many times I'd wake up screaming my mom would come comfort me. After a while she started laying on my floor to make me feel safe.
My guilt was overwhelming. Lanie didn't listen to me tonight and I knew she was really mad. I tried to find something to do but I just couldn't concentrate. After Lanie fell asleep I went into her room to lay on her floor like I did when she was younger. Except this time it was to comfort me.
xxJessicaxx:
Wow, good story so far. =]
And, where did you get Lanie's green striped outfit? It's really cute.
Lil Reaper:
Thanks for the reviews so far. I got the green outfit at MTS2. I included the link for the page.
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=223349
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