Lick it And Slip it in by Demiah13

Layla’s pov

I blinked back the tears as I stared at my mother passed out on the couch. Empty bottles made a mess around her. The entire room smelled of beer and had a stench of something putrid.

My eyes fall to the white powder line on the dark-stained coffee table. I shook my head in disappointment. It had been like this since she lost her job a few months back.

She promised to be clean. She promised. But like all her promises, it went to shit.

She groans while shifting around. Her eyes blinked open and they fell on my figure standing before my room. Tiffany struts over to me. “I’m ready.”

“Oh.” She lets out when her eyes fall on my mother on the couch.

“Are you heading for school darling?” She asked me. The dark circles under her eyes had become prominent. Her creamy skin looked ashy, showcasing her lack of drinking enough water.

“Yes,” I murmured, gripping the strap of my bag tightly. “Well you two have fun. I’m going job searching today.” Her voice croaked, her voice is scratchy from the alcohol she had been consuming.

I nodded and started for the door while Tiffany followed behind me. “Aren’t you going to wish me luck?” She questions before I opened the front door.

I looked at Tiffany and she shakes her head. I sighed and opened the front door. “Good luck.”

Both Tiffany and I walked out. I slammed the door, angered by seeing her lose herself again. Job searching? I’d be lucky to see if she even showered today.

“She’s back on coke?” Tif questions in worry and pity.

“Don’t know, don’t care,” | grumble and started walking away from our crappy house.

Of course I cared, I hated seeing her this way. I did try to help her but she wouldn’t let me. And dad? He was too busy with his new family to even remember that my birthday was two days ago.

“Do you ever stay there and think about what if God made us with luscious curves and big boobs?” Tiffany sighed as her gaze focuses on Karen and her friends. They were the ‘it’ girls I suppose. And just like in those cliche books I wrote, they were nasty and mean.

as they giggled, flipping their shiny hair over their shoulders. I had an inkling that extensions made the length of their hair and

Because maybe we’d be like them.” | nudged my chin towards the popular girls. “I don’t want to

stuck to the walls of the classroom, suffocating us until we were forced to breathe

we should bleach our hair like theirs? Maybe then we

her, elbow on my desk and cheek on my palm. “If you want your hair fried Tif, you do it on your own. I’m perfectly

happy and carefree. Then again she and Tyler

a few days and she’ll go begging for him to take her back even though she knows he cheats.

a nasty scowl crafts its way on her features. “Ew, why the fuck is loser

staring at us?”

drama. I swear my life is exactly like the books

snap their heads my way. I held my breath. I hated so many eyes on me, being noticed was a curse. I tear my eyes away,

on her perfect pretty pink dress in kindergarten. We‘re seniors now and

it being her birthday that day made it ten

thinking about ways to kill one of us and take

statement. No matter how annoying they

watching those thrillers?” Karen

“Maybe?” Paige replied reluctantly.

she leans towards me, palms on my

It’s getting really annoying.”

perfume nearly made me gag as she nears. Never had I had to inhale something as strong as this before, it was

Tiffany

before my desk. I turn to her and lean away slightly when she leans forward with her palms flat on my desk. Her pink painted nails

cousin?” Her glossy lips curled into

at her feet. Why did

all girls in the school, being jealous of Karen was a no no. Yes, she