Maxine is Thirteen years old living on a farm in the
middle of nowhere
She dreams about the Big Smoke she has a wild
sense of adventure
But if she not careful her dream could come true
Maxine lays on her bed writing a goodbye letter
to her parents
She has had enough she has to get away
She writes the last sentence and a tear drop falls
smudging the page
She packs a suitcase and grabs the money she has
been saving
Her parents are asleep and she sneaks out the back
door
She will never see her parents or the farm again
Maxine is a very pretty girl tall for her age
But she is still only Thirteen she has no idea of
what lays ahead
A naïve child who thinks she knows it all
She gets to the farm gate and has one last look
at home
Then she picks up her suitcase sticks out her thumb
and waits for a ride
It is a five hour drive to Sydney
Maxine has heard of a place called Kings Cross
She will arrive get a job make a lot of money
Buy some fancy clothes and lots of shoes
Maxine still hasn’t opened her eyes
A big city is no place for a little girl
After a while Maxine gets a lift from a truck driver
When Maxine says she is going to Kings Cross
The truckie gives her a knowing smile
For Maxine life is about to get rough very rough
Before she knows what is happening she is forced
to perform a sexual act
Maxine was a very pretty girl
Now she is just a pretty mess
The truckie drops Maxine off at the Cross
After she is forced to perform a few more times
A bewildered Maxine wonders the streets of
broken dreams
A vacant look in her eye
Maxine sits in a door step she has nowhere to go
Her heart is racing she is scared out of her wits
She wants to catch the first Bus back home
She doesn’t see the stranger approach
and she is dragged into an alleyway and raped
violently
She lays there bleeding and crying
Maxine was a pretty girl
Now she is just a pretty mess
She wakes up in a bed she doesn’t know where
She is sore and ashamed how could this happen
to her?
An older girl comes up to the bed and says that her
name is Bonnie
She found Maxine and took her home
Maxine can stay as long as she likes
Bonnie can see that Maxine is feeling down
and she offers Maxine a happy pill
Something to put a smile back on her face
Maxine swallows the pill and soon enough she is
floating on the ceiling
She kind of likes it up there
But then the euphoria wears off and she comes crashing
back down
Her skin is crawling and she is sick all over the sheets
Maxine was once a pretty girl
Now she is just a pretty mess
Bonnie yells at Maxine as she throws the sheets into
the washing machine
Little miss friendly has turned into little miss mean
She says that Maxine has to start paying her way
There is no room for a free loader
Bonnie cooks her a meal with a few happy pills mixed in
Maxine is off with the pixies
She doesn’t notice the man enter the room
But soon Maxine is screaming as she is penetrated
for the first time
Ten men visited Maxines room that night
Maxine is growing up fast she is Thirteen going on Twenty
She is covered in sweat and jizz
Maxine was once a pretty girl
Now she is just a pretty mess
Six months has passed and Maxine is hooked on the
happy pills
And she still earns a living laying on her back
Every now and then she will think about life back on the
farm and how much she misses her parents
But then she reaches for another pill as a new customer
enters her room
Maxine was once a pretty girl
Now she is just a pretty mess
Keep an eye out for the next instalment
Maxine(Beyond The Cross)