Lick it And Slip it in by Demiah13

Chapter 39

Layla’s pov

My heart was thumping in my chest with an uneven beat. My hands reach out for the door and opened it quickly.

Finally, I can breathe. Running home was such a workout.

| gasp for a lungful of air, tempted to throw my bag on the floor and just call it a day. But then my eyes roamed around the area and noticed for the first time, she wasn’t on the chair passed out.

My brows knit as I closed the door.

How long had it been since I last seen my mom off the chair when I got home?

“Mom?” I called out to her, kicking off my converse and kicking them to the side.

There was no answer.

Maybe she did go job searching after all?

My eyes snap to the clock mounted on the wall, just beside the hanging flowers. It read three thirty but I knew it read wrong. It needed new batteries.

Shaking my head I gripped my bag and made my way down the small hallway. My legs nearly feeling like butter as my eyes sweep over to the opened bathroom door.

Was she in there? Did something happen to her?

With my mom’s choices, I knew that there was a possibility that she’ll go too far one day. That something bad can happen to her. I just only hope today wasn’t that day.

“Mom?” I called out again, this time softer, almost fearful even.

My stomach knotted, expecting to probably see my mother on the floor knocked out cold or in the tub suffocated by water in her lungs.

mother was unpredictable and wouldn’t care who she hurt in the process. Including

as it brushed the doorframe and I peeked in. I’m relieved

make my way to her room,

closer I get to her door, the stronger the stench of weed became, and the more

to her door. It’s slightly opened and from what I can see from the slight crack, the entire room is filled with

the smell won’t affect my lungs. But as I do

chirped. Which is unusual for her

my eyes to her bed, where I can see her covering her naked body with a flimsy sheet.

wasn’t clean shaven and he was obviously a man who you’d not

mom didn’t get the

This wasn’t the first time inom brought someone over. She usually did this so she can get

you not hear me calling you?” I asked, nervously removing

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out.

asked, turning to stare at the man she just gave her body to and then back to me before she giggled. “I was busy,

She asked nudging her head to the

biting the inside of my cheek before responding. “It’s nothing. Just a

“Oh.” She nodded.

through me. His stare is uncomfortable and has me shifting on my

judge him, but he looked like a guy who had just come out of jail. And knowing my mom’s taste in men, he probably

room if you need me,” I told her softly, wanting

Mom could’ve done better, been better

leave but her voice stops

month, Neymar has promised to

wanted to know. He wouldn’t be here by tomorrow morning. None

if I’d ever

to get a job and will

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