MADI

I try not to care
but it hurts my feelings
-Chappell Roan
(HOT TO GO)

MADI

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@madznelzon, another year of hell starts today

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@mayxu99, 😭
↳@hallhope, 😭

@henelzon, I can't believe I'm related to you 🙄
↳@nick_nzzzz, Henry. I can take your social media away.
↳@madznelzon, 😭
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@lillgreena, cute

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I sat on the bus my headphones tightly on my head as I scrolled through instagram, my feed was mostly just Chappell Roan and my friends and family. Red Wine Supernova was playing in my ears as I looked over next to me at my younger brother Henry.

He was preoccupied with his emails and he was looking at some history book on google. He likes school to much for a human being. Someone should seriously get that kid checked out. Henry looked back up at me and raised an eyebrow his blue eyes glowing in the morning sun.

"What? You're looking at me like I'm your child about to leave for uni." Henry asks giving me a confused look as a chuckle escapes from my lips.

"Forgive me for wondering how your in year nine!" I laughed ruffling his blonde curls as I looked down at him, my smile growing wide as Henry rolled his eyes and plugged his headphones back in.

God that kid has sass.

I open up my phone and freeze when I see who commented on my instagram. Lilliana Greene, my fucking god. That's like super weird seeing as I dumped her on the Holidays because she didn't want any friends knowing and called it an "Open Relationship". Also the only thing she cared about was sex....

I'm sure you can connect the dots as to how I lost my virginity, my dads would absolutely freak if they knew about that, so would May and Hallee for that matter actually.

I swiped out of instagram and opened up my group chat with my best friends in the entire world.

May Xu

And

Hallee Hope

The whole ass rainbow!
Straight Girl = May
Lesbian Mother = Hallee
Bi Queen = Madi

Lesbian Mother
Guys I forgot that summer
break homework Miss Duval handed
out

Straight Girl
Your actually going to get
beaten

Bi Queen
I should start a go
fund me for you medical bills

Lesbian Mother
✋😭

Bi Queen
Anyway...
How's chatting up
Stacy fucking Heaney been going

Straight Girl
Ya we want the ☕️

Lesbian Mother
Well......
We talked a bit over the holidays
and I think it's going well,
also I sorta signed up for cheer
just to see her more often

Straight Girl
...

Bi Queen
YOUR A MASS SIMP

Lesbian Mother
RuDe 💅💥⭐️

Straight Girl
She's right your like
fully fucking diagnosed

Bi Queen
Well Hallee
Just always remember...
You were mine first

Lesbian Mother
Wtf

Straight Girl
Help-

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Nothing much happened today just the normal stuff for an overachiever like me. I organised my notes for the first student council meeting as I'm head of my year, said hi to my friends, signed up for multiple extra curricular activities , and sat through an hour long introduction to the school year assembly.

So I sat on the couch that afternoon on my laptop checking my emails and working on some stupid PowerPoint presentation I'd been given on the first day. I had my headphones on blasting music so I couldn't hear anything when I felt someone sit down next to me and shift my body so I was leaning against them, taking off my headphones and moving my laptop out of the way.

I smiled and looked up at my dad's face. His ginger hair had one strand of hair on his face that always seemed to fly out, and he was wearing his work uniform fully equipped with his rainbow tie.

I love afternoons like this because as much as I'll never admit it, I'm burnt out. I always have been. It's like no matter how much I do to benefit others it's never enough, and then I can't stop myself from doing work. Dad knows this and tries to keep in check my stress levels.

"Hey Mads" Dad says quietly running his hands through my curly orange-brown hair giving me a small smile as I look back up at him with tired eyes.

"Hey." I say my voice cracking slightly from the sheer amount of talking I did to day. Another fun fact about me is that I talk too much. It's like the nurses ripped out my stop talking switch when I was a newborn.

Nick gives me a said smile and looks down at me psighing. "How many things did you sign up for," I grumble the answer, "Sweetie can you speak up."

"6" I say closing my eyes tightly leaning further into dad, but instead of giving me some disapproving looks he just sighed and hugged me tighter as I felt myself start to fall asleep.

Fuck I'm exhausted

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NICKS POV

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Madi has always been an overachiever. But I thought there was a point where a line was drawn within possible and impossible. Nope. Apparently not with my daughter.

Ever since Madi could first sign up for things or volunteer she had had too much on her plate, she always signed up for so much at school and now she's always exhausted.

I ran my hands through Madi's hair as I felt her finally drift off into a much needed sleep. I sighed and moved her slightly so that I could get some work done while she slept on me.

So we sat there for 20 minutes as she slept until Henry came downstairs and realised I was home, he was already wearing pyjamas and he had his headphones over his head.

"Hey Dad, She's like exhausted." Henry said with a whisper as he lent over my shoulder to see what I was working on (my plan for what my year 4 kids are doing tomorrow)

"I know." I whispered back smiling as he listened to something on his headphones, clearly doing something with his friends as he waved and then walked upstairs.

2 HOURS LATER

Charlie walked through the door at 5. His hair was a mess and he looked like someone who had been running laps around the office today. His smile dropped when he saw Madi sleeping on me.

"Hey Babe." He said as he sat down next to a sleeping Madi on the couch. I waved as my mouth was right near her ear, and the last time we woke her up from a nap like this by talking she screamed thinking someone had broken in.

"Want me to take her?" Charlie offered with a smile on his face. He was definitely about to wake her up. Oh well. I smiled back and moved Madi onto Charlie who the proceeded to shake her awake gently like he had done so many times as she blinked groggily. Rubbing sleep from her eyes as she groggily said,

"Papa? What time is it?" Madi grumbled as she sat up still blinking herself awake. I showed her my phone, "Damn 5:30?" Madi whispered more to herself than us.

"Yeah." I sighed from where I was sitting as she turned her head towards me, "Now go upstairs and put on pyjamas it's game night!"

The girl grinned and hurried upstairs running to go and take a quick shower.

I love my dysfunctional family.

MADI'S POV

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Family game night is probably the longest lasting tradition in my house. The tradition is that on a Monday night whoever is home last brings home takeout and we sit in the living room and play at least two board games, rotating each time who got to pick what we played.

Tonight Dad and I picked, I picked The Game Of Life, and Dad picked Pictionary, so currently I was helping him lift a whiteboard downstairs and Papa and Henry wrote down some things to draw downstairs. They were always ridiculous and things that could never be said outside that living room.

"Dad, why is this so Heavy." I groan as I helped Dad get the Whiteboard onto the stairs heaving as we lifted it.

"It's not heavy you just don't do sports." Dad said as he pulled the whiteboard down the stairs with ease and I huffed in agreement as we reached the living room and I sat down on the floor leaning up against Papa.

"Petition that we should keep the whiteboard downstairs." I called out as everyone except Dad raised their hands chuckling. I gave Dad an annoyed look and he chuckled,

"What... it's good exercise." Everyone groaned at his response as Papa finished writing down the Pictionary topics.

And the game begun,

First Henry got Gay, to which he drew Papa and Dad in a bed, causing the whole room to erupt in fits of laughter.

Then Papa got Tea, to which he drew an outlandish amount of tea bags even after Dad had already guessed it.

Then it was my turn, I walked up stuck my hand in the jar and pulled out something I wasn't expecting, 'Uncle David'. Who even put that in there. I cleared my throat and said, "I'll be back in a minute leaving my card on the bench."

Uncle David had always hated me.

You see that bastard had always been a dick but he is really nice to Henry and appears to be nice to me but the second my Dads leave he will comment on things about me that aren't good. Like 'Mads you've gained weight,' or 'Mads you look ugly today'. And I feel like if I say anything to my Dads they'll get mad at me. It doesn't help that we are seeing him in a few days as it's Dad's Birthday.

I came back and just pulled another word slipping the other word back in.

That night I drew Homophobia.

I also won life again. I always win life but that is not the point.

The point is that Mondays are my favourite day of the week because of this silly little tradition.

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Had to start with a big boy chapter

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