“fuck…there’s something that my dad used to always say to me growing up that’s stuck with me…ahem.” bash cleared his throat and extended back, preparing to imitate the dean of lockwood. “god doesn’t want you to be happy, he wants you to be strong.” he paused for a moment, the cigarette within his lips coming to an end as he ashed it out, “for the longest time i thought that was true and now i just think it sounds kind of fucked.” it didn’t help that he was currently stoned out of his mind. “so. what do you think? think god wants us to be happy or strong?”
eyes watered and lungs reacted as the smoke hit maeve. the shittiest part of having fucked lungs: just the smallest hint of smoke was enough to cause a reaction. well, that and not being able to breathe properly. that was a drag. a light cough was intertwined with her laughter at the imitation. “solid impression.” the girl complimented, adjusting the cannula stuck in her nostrils. “I don’t know. I think I stopped believing in a god a few years ago. so I guess I’m not the best person to ask.” teeth dragging across her bottom lip. “how about you?”
a chair was pulled up by one windows, the breeze of the night coming through the crack. the quiet streets of a three a.m. college town invited her in. her feet were tucked up underneath her as she sat and doodled in one of her beat up little journals. her curls were up in a semi-top knot, paired with a cami and some pj pants that were basically relics at this point. the world only felt right when she was pen to paper, creating something new for herself. so, when the door to the study room opened, the girl barely looked up from her pages. however, once the sound of the voice hit her ears, maeve felt herself jump a bit. “oh my god!” turning around, it was obvious the other had startled her. “ sorry. it’s just...you scared the hell out of me!”
your girl lo is back at it again with the haley lu. this is my muffin, maeve. her backstory is A LOT so warning you now but she is probably one of my most interesting characters to date. and I needed her back in my life mmmkay?
•(more about the girl below)•
have you seen maeve donoghue around yet? i hear she decided to be in FEDELIS for their SOPHOMORE year as a ENGLISH major. the 21 year old TIER 1 SHEPARD is known to be effervescent, intelligent, guarded and pessimistic. ➨ the muse is written by Lo. she is 24, in the est.
○ maeve’s family hails from ireland. her father is a full blooded irish who ended up failing in love with an american student studying abroad. her father is a freelance artist and her mother is a music teacher. needless to say, her life was never that normal. they were always living paycheck to paycheck. she grew up in cork, ireland until she was thirteen when her mother got an awesome job offer in austin, texas. she lived there until she was seventeen, when she was sent to live with her aunt and uncle in glouster.
○ she has a twin brother, maverick, who is her partner in crime/best friend. the only other sibling she has is a half sibling from her father’s high school relationship. she doesn’t really know her that well but they try and keep in touch.
○ maeve has always been a sick child. she spent three months in the hospital after she was born due to her lungs being underdeveloped (something she’ll pick on her twin about, being a ‘lung hog’) however, when she was seven years old, she and her parents were hit with a bomb of a diagnosis: lupus. her body attacks itself relentlessly and though they are still trying suppress the symptoms, maeve knows it will never get better. only worse. she constantly feels ill and has undergone many surgeries. her scars make her feel ugly.
○ has a thick ass irish accent. it gets worse as she drinks
○ has always had a love for books. school days she had to spend pulled to different doctors, books provided an escape from. she decided she was going to be an author when she was seven. that hasn’t changed
○ now her backstory. gossip blog, feel free to have a field day with this. in texas, when maeve was in high school, she attended a graduation party when she was a freshman. maeve found herself in the bathroom that night, trying to get away from all the noise and the debauchery. while she’s looking at herself in the mirror, the door suddenly opened. it was lucas, the stereotype of an all american quarterback. someone she could say she had a crush on. maeve was a little tipsy and lucas tried to help her get her bearings. but it was all a facade. his hands helping her soon became his hands hurting her. he raped her and when he was done, he left her in the bathroom. crying and alone.
○ after a few months of suffering in silence, maeve finally told her father what had happened. obviously, her father was livid. and he had heard too many stories of boys getting away with actions like this in american, so he decided to take the law into his own hands. her father, bruno, lured lucas under the guise that he was a drug dealer. once he had lucas in the car, he brought him to an abandoned warehouse, beat him, then threatened to shoot lucas unless he confessed to raping his daughter, all of which he recorded on video. before lucas could respond, he died as result of his asthma.
○ her father was arrested after he tried to disguise his voice to 911 to get help for the dying boy. since lucas’ family was $$$$, they hired the best lawyers they could. bruno was found guilty of first degree murder and was sentenced to death. he remains on death row to this day.
○ maeve has a lot of guilt. she feels like everything that has happened is her fault and it causes her to be very closed off. she has told maybe one or two close friends what happened.
PLOT IDEAS
bring me: close friends who know, HER BROTHER, a relative of lucas, someone who finds out about the case from class or something, ANYTHING. I LIVE FOR THE DRAMA
