The Beginning!

We start off about a few months in the past in a small house with 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a small living room, small kitchen, very small hall closet and a cold, drafty, musty-smelling basement, in which was growing mold.

In this house lived Mara Poppie, her boyfriend Nate Koplan and her sister Amanda Poppie. Oh and we mustn't forget about her two-and-a-half-old daughter Mai, who just about everybody in that house forgets about. If they didn't forget about her, they'd beat her or something like that.

Present

Right now the house was quiet, dark and cold. The only one in the house at the moment was little Mai, who was in a corner crying, crying in pain...and in fear.

Soon a car could be heard coming up the driveway, and that's when Mai went to hide.

"Hmmn. That was nice. You should do this more often." Mara said holding onto Nate.

"Yeah, thanks Nate. That was the best bar I've ever been to. Hey where's the brat?" Amanda asked looking around.

"You're welcome. Where is the little brat? Hey, brat! Where the fuck are you hiding?! Come out, Come out wherever you are! Aaaha! There you are! Come here!" Nate yelled grabbing Mai by the back of her shirt and roughly pulled her up to him, while she cried.

"What were you doing behind the couch, child?" Mara asked as opened a closet door.

"I-I-I-I fewll!" Mai cried in a tiny voice.

"Excuses, excuses." Mara said shaking her head.

"You know, monsters come after little children who lie." Amanda said as Mara tossed Mai into the closet, locked it and started banging on the door and making eerie noises making Mai cry.

Soon they got tired of this and left leaving Mai to cry in fear and pain.

Soon you could hear another car pull in the driveway and that's when Mara's parents walked in the house to see their daughters and Nate watching TV.

"Where's Mai?" Mara's mother asked looking at the three on old beaten-up couch.

"Eh. Who cares?" Mara asked not caring.

"We care! Now answer your mother young lady!" Mara's father exclaimed at the three sternly.

After seeing her father like that Mara, gave up.

"She's locked in the closet." Mara said as her parents went to the closet.

When they opened the door they stared in shock at the little girl on the ground, covered in bruises and cuts.

"Oh Mai, look what they've done to you." Jaycene said picking the two-year-old up and holding her granddaughter close.

"What have you guys been doing to this innocent child? You make me sick." Kyle said looking at his granddaughter.

"You know you're going to end up losing her like you lost Derek, you realize that don't you?" Jaycene asked.

"Who'd wanna take her? She's a pain that nobody likes or lov—" Mara started but was cut off by her mother slapping her hard across the face.

"That's not true; she's loved by me and your father!" Jaycene exclaimed at her daughter who was holding her cheek.

"Which is why we plan on taking her, so that we actually get to see this one." Kyle said

After that was said, Jaycene looked at her granddaughter and told her that she wouldn't have to worry anymore, she was going to stay with them.

"Here, I have something for you." Jaycene said giving Mai a stuffed bear with a blue pj shirt with a red star on it.

"Wawt is it?" Mai asked.

"He's a stuffed animal. It's yours; take it, it's ok. He's a gift from me to you. You may not understand that, but you will. This bear used to be mine; my mother gave to me when I was little. So could you please take care of him?" Jaycene asked as she let Mai take it from her.

"Tank you. Wawt's his name?" Mai asked looking at her new toy "friend."

"Well I always called him "Mr. Bear," but you can change his name if you wish." Jaycene said as her husband, Kyle bent down to put his hand on Mai's head.

All of this started to piss Mara off. She wanted that bear, but her mother never gave her it.

"What the hell is that?! You give her the bear, but not me! What's with that?! You should've given me the bear! I deserve it!" Mara yelled.

"Mara if I would've given you "Mr. Bear" you would've ripped it apart or set it on fire like all the other nice things your father and I gave you. Mai is pure innocence; she won't destroy, not on purpose anyways." Jaycene said softly pissing Mara off even more.

"Mom, I won't stand for this! You're not taking Mai anywhere, but you're leaving and you're never coming back!" Mara yelled as she shot her mother, while Nate shot Kyle, killing both of them instantly.

After they were dead, Mara, Nate and Amanda looked at Mai and grabbed her before she could run.

"Don't you dare say a thing!" They all warned, throwing her into the closet and doing what they did earlier.

This was done every day for three months before Nate shot Mara, after Amanda was taken to jail for stealing.

After that Mai was taken into the care of child services, who eventually figured out whom Mai's biological father was…Elliot Grant.

They waited a whole month and a half before deciding when they would take her to Elliot.

"She looks so peaceful." A female voice said.

"Yeah, let's hope that's how it will stay when she meets her dad." A male voice said.

"She should be; I read her father's profile, he seems like a good guy." Another female voice said.

"Yeah. This better be really important for us to have to travel two days." Another male voice complained.

After he said that they all sighed.

Within four hours they were standing at the front doors of Café Mew Mew.

"I'll knock." A male voice said walking to the front door…