Chapter 1
Three years ago
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Kayla you never do anything you lazy brat” my mother scolds. “How many times do I have to tell you clean this house, I shouldn’t see a speck of dust I shouldn’t see a spoon or anything”. She got up and slapped me. “ Mother I cleaned everything You just put that spoon in the sink” I tried to explain to my mother, “ So now you wanna blame this on me?!” My mother screeched. Then she got up and slapped me, I tried to move but she just kept slapping and punching me. Then I realized there’s blood coming from my nose. She just laughs “ you should’ve cleaned when I told you to”. Then she spits on me.
She’s always hated me because she said I made dad leave us. I just took it and tried not to cry she hates when I cry she says I look even uglier than I normally do. I miss daddy
Present day
I wake up with a start. I’ve been having flashbacks and nightmares since I was 15. I finally moved out when I was 17 but I still can’t get rid of my nightmares. I guess I have to go get ready for my last first day of my shitty school. I walking in my bathroom, took off my clothes and turned on my shower. My favorite part of my new apartment is my shower. It’s a glass shower with the square shower head and gold exterior. It’s very pretty and it soothes all my problems. Anyways I step in and start to wash up. After I’m done rinsing off the soap from my body I just stand there. Taking in all the hot water relaxing my mussels and just admiring the pressure of my shower head. It literally feels like I’m getting a massage. Once I turn off the water I grab my towel and head to my bed. I put all my skin care products on and grab my underwear and bra. I decided on a black cute lace matching pair today. I go back to my bathroom and brush my teeth and wash my face. I go to my closet and grab a graphic tee, some black biker shorts and my black and white dunks. Because I also work two jobs I have at dream car too. She’s so beautiful. All white Jeep Wrangler. I grab an apple my bag, phone, keys, sunglasses, some lipgloss, and my AirPods. I get in my car and go to this horrid place, I mean it’s not that bad the teachers are pretty cool but being that I’m black and half the students are white it kinda sucks. Once I park my car I see my annoying ass best friends. There’s Jayda a really pretty, feisty, crazy, and smart Puerto Rican girl who’s been my best friend since freshman year. Then there’s Tyreek, my annoying evil gay best friend. I met him sophomore year when he transferred from New Jersey to New York. I start to walk towards them once they see me they start acting silly screaming “yessss work it girl” I ended up walking to my friends as I’m about to get to them I bump into this fine brownskin he smelled great. He had these nice lips and straight white teeth. Not to mention he had the sneakers I’ve been saving half my paycheck to buy for the past month on his feet. “Watch it, and can you stop staring at me” his delicious voice spoke out. Once I stoped staring at him i quickly said my bad and kept it pushing to my friends. “Ooo girl I seen you staring at that fione man right there” Jayda started, “ Right you looked at him like I look at A Boogie” Tyreek joked. “Can y’all shut up damn all up in my business”. We walked to first period, we all had English with Ms. Brown. She was like the only black teacher here so we all liked her and she was like our school mom. We took our seats when Ms. Brown said “ Hello guys welcome to the first day of senior year, congrats on moving up a grade im proud of you guys. Now we have a new student I want you guys to be nice to him, this is Bryson. He transferred from Chicago. Now Bryson you can sit right by Kayla, now let’s get to class guys”. I looked shocked, it was that fine boy from earlier. I hear Tyreek and Jayda snickering beside me, I gave them the stank eye before I focused on Ms.Brown. I managed to get a smell of that cologne Bryson had on and it made me dizzy. I just put my AirPods on and opened my textbook ready to get this class over with.
