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MH: Tis the season

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The soft glow of glittering lights reflected agents Maria's glasses, she was on her way to the library. Always running out of books, she was at a public library at least twice a week and in her schools library everyday. But over the last week she had not gone to the public library only staying in the schools. The sounds of people rushing around her didn't even faze her. "Christmas." she muttered to herself. This was her first Christmas in Norwood. Her mind wondered as she walked thinking about the hell that her last Christmas was.

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"Maria get down here!" A screechy female voice called the teen out of her book, it was her eighth time reading it since the winter break had started and her twentieth time in total. Alice in Wonderland had become the young girl's favourite classic, oh did she want to jump in to the pages so she could go down the rabbit hole and have tea with the mad hatter and explore the strange world with Alice. "Maria!" The woman called again sounding more inpatient.
"Coming!" Maria yelled back then quickly slipped her book mark in her place and fled her room to meet the old hag that had pulled her out of her adventure. "Yes mommy?" she questioned once she reached the bottom of the stairs, in front of her was a middle aged woman with pulled back blond hair and a face covered in winkles.
"Why are you not ready?" Snapped the woman "I told you to put on that party dress, we are going out." She screeched. Maria's mother was wearing a dress herself, nothing to fancy, dark blue with silver trim and the skirt ran down to her ankles.
"Mom it's cold out and that dress has no protection from the cold." She tried to explain to the woman who she had to call her mother.
"I don't care. You are a lady and I wont let you galavant around in boys clothing now go put on your dress, we are all waiting on you." She snapped and pointed to the direction Maria had come from. Quickly the young girl ran up the stairs not wanting to face the wrath of her mother. She walked in to her room, with out a door she had to keep the small bedroom clean or she would be punished. 
"Stupid dress." She snapped as she pulled out the garment from the closest, as she de robbed she looked over at the book she had left on her bed. She wanted to dive right back in to it but she knew she couldn't she was still sore from the last time they caught her reading when she was meant to do something else. It did not take long for her to be in the overly girly dress. "I look stupid." She grumbled as she left her room. Once down the stairs for a second time she was faced with her mother holding a pair of high healed shoes.
"Put these on." Maria took the devils in a pair of shoes and slipped them on with some difficulty, but the real difficulty was going to be walking that night. The family left, they walked to the party that was down the ice street. Maria fell four times every time she got an earful from her mother and was laughed at by her siblings. She hatted Christmas eve, every year they went to some party then to midnight mass at the church were Maria was alway asked after mass the tell her sins to the pasture. 'Will I be able to survive too my eighteenth birthday?' she pondered as she made her way up to the house this party was held at. Once inside she was forgotten by her family and for some time no one approached her.
"Maria would you like to dance?" a nerdy zit covered teen asked her. He was unattractive, he was once a friend of hers before the whole town knew she was a sinner, that she was a lesbian. She knew why he asked, everyday since school was out she had been forced to go to a youth day camp to help her over come her problems. And her parents had told everyone that she was getting better.
"No thank you." she responded, she didn't want any of her peers near her. They made fun of her every time she walked down the hallway.
"Come on Maria. Your mother said your getting-" 
Maria cut him off before he could finish "Fuck off." She knew she would get an earful latter but she didn't want to keep hearing how she was sick. 
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Maria's mind popped back to the present as she stood in front of the doors of the library. "All I need are more books." She told herself as she walked in to the building, "Books will make everything better." She dropped off her stack from her last visit and went straight for the fiction section of the library, the first thing she saw was a display of books for the coming up holiday. It showed images of several different religions above the books. Each book had a happy family on it with some corny title. As she was about to pass the display without a second thought one book caught her eye, the title read, no home for the holidays, she picked it up and flipped the paper back around to read the back.
"I sat with the people that were meant to be my family but were not, I hated this holiday, so I ran away.
Many people may feel like they have no home for the holidays. So this book is a compilation of stories about youth and their struggles with Christmas and their families."
Maria slipped the book under her arm, she wanted to see if other teenagers had the same problems she had only a few months ago. Maria still had not made any friends upon coming to Norwood, she did know that there were quite a few magis in the town. Maybe this book would help her get over her hatred of the holidays. She continued on for a hour she looked through the books and by the end she had ten books in total. She filled them in to her bag as the check out clerk scanned them. As she made her way back home her mind once again drifted back to her last Christmas. 

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"Maria were are you going!" Screamed her mother as she stormed out of the party bare foot. 
"Home." She didn't even look back at her screaming parents and was soon running. She passed her house and kept going tears filling her eyes, her face stinted. Her father had pulled her out side and slapped her across the face for swearing at someone and for not excepting the dance. When she finally stopped she stood in front of the library of her small town. It was closed, she wanted disappear in the pages of some book, any book. "I'm going to be in so much trouble when I get home."  she chocked out to the glass doors in front of her. It was close to midnight when she made her way back towards her house, her fingers were frozen and her teeth chatted. Once inside the house she went straight to her room grabbed her book then went to the basement to sleep. 
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She stood at her aunt's door her mind back to the present, walking in she saw her aunt smiling at her. "Hey Maria, got some books?" 
"Ya, is it universally accepted to start Christmas before thanksgiving?" She asked pulling off her boots.
"Sadly ya." Her aunt chuckled. "We don't have to decorate if you don't wanna. I don't really have any decorations my self." 
"I'm fine as long as I don't have to go to midnight mass." she paused "Ever again." 
Her aunt broke out in to a pure laugh "Same here girl." 
'This Christmas will be good, I know it.' Maria thought to herself as she giggled along with her aunt's contagious laughter.
A short story for the prompt for Magivember

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