He Saved Her Life

My Parents Are Fools

It was December 15th 2017, a young girl named Layla was sitting on her bed finishing up some homework from the day she had. As she was finishing up her last page she paused for a second. "WHAT THE HELL?! YOU WENT AND CHEATED ON ME WITH YOUR CO-WOKRER?! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU" her mother yelled. Layla put her headphones on as her eyes started slowly dripping out with tears. She slowly fell asleep listening to deep calming music to ignore the fact of her parents. The next day was a final test for the last day before winter break. Layla woke up to the sun shinning in her face from the wide open window infront of her. As she got up she checked her phone for any notifications. She sighed as there was nothing but a blank phone. She set her phone down on her desk as she went into her closet to get clothes for the day. Since it was the last day until break there was a winter dance after so she found her dress. She went into her bathroom locking the door behind her as she slowly took of her clothes facing away from the mirror. She slowly put on her dress and turned around to look in the mirror. Sleeveless, chest showing, thighs out, she started tearing up and ripped it off right away and put a hoodie and jeans on. As she brushed her hair you could hear her stomach rumbling as she hasn't eaten in days. As she left the bathroom she got a text from a boy at her school. " Hello Layla! My name is Brooks, I am a new student at the school I was wondering if you could show me around!' he sent her. She responded " Of course new kid" as she smiled and put her phone in her back pocket. She went down stairs and grabbed her book bag and left the house, as she walked out she saw her dad sleeping on the lawn as if her mother kicked him out. She put her earbuds in as she walked to her school. As she got there you can see all the different groups of friends, yet she couldn't make it into any of those. She saw the new kid Brooks waving at her. He had short brown hair, blue eyes, a football player body, and a twinkle in his smile. She walked up to him" Are you Brooks?" she asked while looking down at the ground. " Thats me!" Brooks smiled as he hugged her tightly like he's never had someone to hug. She was shocked with the hug but enjoyed it while she could. She put her arm around Brooks and lead him to his first class. As she left his classroom she took off her hoodie revealing a crop top with straps showing her belly button piercing that she did herself. After the first couple classes it was now lunch time, her friend Sawyer was already sitting at a small table in the corner of the room his with goth style.  Layla looked around for Brooks as he was nowhere to be found. She went and sat with Sawyer "I think my parents are splitting up" she said in a low voice. "Oh no! what happened lay!" Sawyer said in a shocked joking voice looking up at Layla since she was short. As they kept talking a school staff member walked up to them "Layla, your needed at home pack your things and walk home right away" they said. Layla got up as fast as she could and ran home forgetting all her stuff at school. She busted in the door" MOM? DAD? WHATS GOING ON!?" she yelled through out the house. She saw her parents sitting in the family room, her mom was doing a sitting motion next to her on a chair near them. Layla sat crossing her legs and picking the skin off her fingers" what is it?" she asked. Her mom looked at her with tears coming out of her eyes" I know this is going to be hard for all of us but me and your father are getting a divorce" she said. Layla ran up the stairs into her room slamming the door behind her as she fell onto the floor crying.  "how could you do this to me" she said to herself. She grabbed her laptop and looked up types of self harm as she Scratched the hell out of her arm as blood as coming out. Sawyer came running into her room as you could hear the police sirens outside " YOUR PARENTS ARE DEAD!!!" he yelled picking her up and running her downstairs to see that her mom had been stabbed and then her dad shot himself.  Layla starting breaking down into Sawyers chest as he held her and comforted her.  After all the emergency services left it was just Layla and Sawyer left. Layla looked up at the 6'1 male from her 5'3 point of view. "thank you for being her Sawyer" she said smiling up at him. Sawyer responded" its no problem".