"Maire Iris Stephen, why is the breakfast not ready yet?!" My aunt yells from the living room and I let out shaky breathes as I pace around the kitchen, preparing breakfast in a rush.

"Just five more minutes, Aunt Georgia." I reply her, pouring tea in the cups with my trembling hands.

"Maire did you Iron my clothes?!" I hear my cousin, Amber, yell from upstairs as I curse under my breath and hit my forehead with the palm of hand. How can I forget to iron her clothes? I'm going to get in trouble.

"I'll do it right now, Amber I'm sorry I forgot." I quickly answer her, when I accidentally pour some of the tea on my hand, and place the tea pot on the side, clutching onto my hand in pain and I bite my lip to control the whimper from slipping my mouth.

"What did you do now, Stephen?" I hear my cousin brother's voice from the doorway of the kitchen as he smirks at my hand. I quickly walk over to the sink and wash my hand with the cold water, wincing a bit as I continue to prepare the breakfast for everyone, ignoring the inflimation of my hand.

"Nothing," I mutter, and he steps inside the kitchen, seating himself in front of me on the kitchen counter.

"Did you do your maths homework?" He asks me, and I stop my work to turn around and face him. Is he really concerned about me doing my homework?

"Yes.." I trail off not sure with what he's trying to do.

"Good, I'm taking your homework and submitting it as mine because I don't have time to do that shitty homework." He says, getting up from the counter as I gasp and look at him with wide eyes.

"But thats..thats my homework. I did it by myself, you should also do your work by yourself." I speak up, when he turns his face towards me with a smirk on his face as he walks forward, standing right in front of me.

"Don't argue with me, Stephen." He says with a devilish smirk, before patting my shoulder and leaving the kitchen where as I stand there in shock, watching his figure disappear from the kitchen.

That is my homework. I spent my whole night working on that thing, how can he simply take away my work and take credits for it? Today is the last day to submit the homework and I don't have enough time to do it all over again. He's going to get me in trouble.

"MAIRE!" My aunt yells from the living room, causing me to flinch as I shake my head and lift up the food tray walking outside the kitchen and placing the breakfast on the table in the living room, receiving cursing words and glares from my aunt as I quickly make my way upstairs to Amber's room and walk to her wardrobe taking out her clothes and ironing them as she continues to sing in the shower.

She walks out of the shower with a towel wrapped all over her thin tanned body, as I hand her clothes and begin to walk out of her room when she stops me in my tracks.

"Oh, Maire, do my English homework, yeah?" She says as I quickly turn over to face her and she gives me smirk.

"But I have to do my maths homework as well." I say and her head snaps in my direction with a surprised look on her face.

"Excuse me? What did you say?" She walks towards me and I gulp, regretting my decision to speak up in front of her. She soon stands in front of me and her hand reaches up before clutching on to my hair from behind, and my head falls back in pain.

"Did you just refuse me, bitch?" She grits in my face with a furious expression on her face, making my breathing to race in horror as I squeeze my eyes close.

"I'll do it, I'll do it, please stop it's hurting me." I plead as tears begin to brim in my eyes but I stop them because I don't want to cry. She pushes me back and I stumble, placing my hands on the railing of the staircase outside her room, balancing myself on it as she slams her door on my face, making me flinch.

I walk over to my room and quickly change into my jeans and a black jumper, tying my hair into a quick bun before hiding it inside my hoodie. In the meantime Amber walks into my room, throwing her books on my bed.

"Give me my assignment in the school hallways." She orders before walking out of my room and I sigh, picking up her books in my hand as I glance at the time on my wrist watch, I still have half an hour before school starts, but I have to be pretty quick before I miss my bus.

I open her textbooks, and do her homework. Once I finish, I check the time again and realize that only twenty minutes are left before school starts.

"Shit!" I quickly stuff her books in my bag and get up from my bed, wearing my black sneakers and making my way downstairs to find no breakfast on the table, only empty dishes piled up for me to wash. I sigh and make my way to the fridge to grab an apple but someone snatches it from my hand and I turn my face to find none other than Tyler, my cousin brother holding the apple in his hand with a smirk on his face.

"I have it now, find something else to eat." He says, walking out of the kitchen, biting the apple in his hand as I keep staring at him quietly before I shut the door of the fridge and walk out of my aunt's house without breakfast, speeding up to reach my high school. I've already missed my bus and I know Tyler won't drop me to school because it'll be harmful to his "reputation" of a player.

I practically run on the street, making my way to my school, with my breathing irregular and heart racing, as I walk inside the hallways, finding Amber standing with her best friend Chloe, twirling her hair in her fingers. I quickly take out her books from my bag and hand it to her and she lifts her chin up high in the air, showing her proudness as I begin to walk past her when her best friend moves her foot forward, making me trip on the floor with a loud thud. I purse my lips and slowly lift myself from the ground, ignoring the fits of laughter from around me, making me embarrass.

"Learn how to walk bitch," Amber laughs from behind and I sigh, shaking my head and walking away from her and her best friend.

With my head bowed down the whole time, I head towards my locker and search for my books in it, when I hear some girls gossiping beside me about some new boy. I shake my head and comtinue looking for my books, trying to ignore their discussion.

The discussion about this famous new guy who is supposedly known as a "bad boy" has been going in our school since last week. I don't know what's so interesting about him that not only girls and gays are talking about him but boys and teachers as well. He's like the hot topic of our school these days, but I haven't seen him personally and not even planning to do that.

I grab my books from the locker and shut it close when a folded paper falls from my locker and I bend down to pick it up. I unfold it and begin to read what's written in it.

To Maire,

The day I saw you, the day I lost myself.

The brown in your eyes, melted my heart.

The moment your gaze landed on me, I turned around because the power your eyes held, was just one look to flutter my soul.

Then there was something which broke my heart, when a tear roled down your eye, making you silently wipe it away.

Oh how badly, I wanted to dry all your tears, to read the untold stories they told but I was no one to you, no one but a stranger or your secret admirer.

-Your secret admirer.

My eyes widen and I blink few times in shock re reading the beautiful words written on the paper, again and again. I look around my surroundings and then quickly turn my attention back to the note in my hand. Was this poem for me? My name's written on the top and it was in my locker so it was for me maybe. But who would write this beautiful poem for me? I have no friends, no one who would love me. I'm all alone on my own with no one beside me. I get bullied each day by my cousins and their friends. My parents died when I was six years old and since then I've been living with my aunt and her two kids, mostly serving as their maid. I have no choice to stay quiet and oblige them, to bear every pain they cause me because I have no where to go to. That is the reason they treat me awfuly because they know that I'm helpless.

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