LETTER OF MAISIE

MAISIE is an 18-year old and a Senior High School Student in a prestigious school. Despite of her parents being rich and a board member of the school, she applied as a scholar student and she got in. Despite of her background family, no one ever treat her as a rich kid and almost everyone at the school treats her nothing but an eyesore and because of that she never showed her weakness and no one saw her cry. Despite of the different hardships that she’s going through, she never dared to raised her voice just to speak and defend herself. Everyone around her treats her like a dump but she’s just ignoring it. 

18 years of existence, she never experienced the things that should be experience by someone like her and she never celebrate her birthday instead she experienced like living in a hell. Committing suicide is always on her mind, she wants do it but she just can’t. Her family is always comparing her to someone else and they always see her little mistakes like dropping a spoon in the kitchen and they never seen her effort that will make them proud like her medals, trophies and certification of achievements. Every night, she’s always crying silently and asking herself “what’s wrong with me? why can’t they see me? I did not hurt anyone, but why? I did not show my weakness and cried in front of them because I know they will just ignore me, but still why?” these questions are always in her head especially when she’s alone in the dark room. Despite of her stern face that she’s showing to everyone, she is wounded deep inside her heart. She is always pretending that she is okay and brave enough to face any difficulties just like when her sister argued with her. Her sister was yelling her loud and she can’t do anything but to let her sister release her frustration on her, she never fought back because she knows that in the end, no one will believe and defend her. 

Whenever her sister is frustrated for something, she is the first person that she’s looking for and always saying these harsh words “Why did you born in this world?! You don’t deserve to live here! You are such a nuisance, a damn mistake to us! How I wish that you will die soon!”. This kind of scene is not new to her not until one day she’s already fed up with this kind of scenario and for the first time she fought back. It is when her sister accused her for something she did not do. They keep on arguing until their parents barged into her room and ready to defend her sister. Their parents are too mad at her for yelling at her older sister. Their mother was back hugging her older sister and their father slapped her in the face. She was not shocked by this kind of action because it is not new to her but unexpectedly, her tears started to burst into her eyes. She caressed her sore cheeks and take a deep breath; her older sister and their parents is shocked to her reaction and sudden burst of tears. She laughed hard while stopping the tears that keeps on flowing on her face. She’s too hurt not only physically but mentally and emotionally and for the first time she shared what’s going into her mind “what a shame. I am a human too! I’m fed up with this kind of situation, Mom, Dad can you please tell me why? Why are you treating me like this? I am also your daughter but why are you treating me like I am a stranger- no stranger is too low; you’re treating me like a damn dump! You never seen my efforts just to make you proud. This dark room that you provided for me? I did not complain about it despite of having too many rooms inside this house and to be honest? Rooms for maids are much nicer than mine. My room is like a storage room- no it is already a storage room! Do you see these wounds? This is caused by the bullies in school! Damn! What did I do to deserve this kind of treatment?” Tears are not stopping flowing into her eyes and she barely breathe. Her knees turned like into jelly that cause her to sit into the floor. Her parents and sister can’t say anything to her sudden burst of emotion. Despite of having a hard time to breath she continued to release her frustration “you want me dead? Then, in the first place why did you raise me?! you can do abortion before, why did you not do that?! You don’t want me in this house? Then why did you take me in this shelter?! Damn it! In the first place, if you don’t want me, why did you raise me in this world! To tell you the truth? I am too wounded inside! In this damn house, no one is ready to defend me even at school! I have no friends! the teachers are ignoring me when I am complaining about the bullies. That damn school, only knows me when they need someone to represent the school in any competition. What just I am to you?! Damn, these tears why can’t they stop on flowing?! Mom and Dad, you don’t need to answer my questions because I just realized right now that, I am just nothing to you. Even I am the legitimate child of yours not her. It’s funny how you treat her like your own child, you gave her everything and you pampered her too much. While me? the money that I am spending is my own from my part time jobs. I am thankful for that part time job even it is just washing dishes from the resto, delivering foods and mopping the comfort rooms. You know what guys? I deserve better than this, don’t worry from now on I am not part of your family and I will leave this house and the school? Don’t worry I already submitted my drop-out form”. After saying those words, she grabbed her bags and leave the house while her parents are still stunned by what their real daughter said.

One week has passed and just like Maisie said, she never goes back into their house. After her real daughter left, she searched the room of Maisie and she found a box that full of letters. The letters are for them and she read it. After she read the letters, she can’t stop herself from crying because the content of the letters was the experienced of Maisie when she was five years old and the last letter was supposed to be given by them on her birthday. Maisie birthday is when she left. After reading the letters, she immediately barged into the library of their house where her husband rests, she showed him the letters and just like her, he burst into tears and because of that they decided to find her but they did not found her until one day a policeman appeared in front of them and told them about Maisie whereabouts. She was raped and killed in the abandoned building. The policeman, gave something to them and it was a flash-drive. Despite f the unstoppable tears that flowing into their eyes, they immediately inserted the flash-drive into the laptop and see what’s inside of it. It was a video of her saying sorry for what she said to them and asking if she can go back to their house and she also showed a wood craft that made by her and supposed to be an apology gift to them. The video ended and they burst into tears and full of regret. Their daughter Maisie is no longer on earth and their ties that supposed to be saved is no longer available. The ties that supposed to be their connection to each other is no longer visible, it is already cut down permanently.

~THE END~