Striptease

Destined

[Everleigh]

"This night is sparklin', don't you let it go. I'm wonder struck, blushin' all the way home. I'll spend forever, wondering if you knew. I was enchanted to meet you…."

"Ooh, somebody's in a good mood today!"

Mikayla commented as my bubblier than usual attitude as I rolled my eyes at her, my hips swaying along to the music playing on the speakers that was anonymously requested, it was me who requested it but I just wouldn't say that since it would make me seem like I was going soft in my hard line of work, and I tried to simply brush my best friend off with a shrug and a nonchalant wave of my hand.

"Nah, I just felt like hearing some TS today, that ludacris music they're always playing in here can be a bit grating on the ears."

The confidence wavered in my voice for a moment, could she tell that it was more than me just wanting to listen to something other than loud, obnoxiously vulgar music?

That the reason behind my specific choice in this upbeat music genre also correlated to my current mood as well?

At my tone and odd choice of words, Kayla's dark eyebrows shot so far up into her forehead, I wondered if they had disappeared altogether.

"Seriously? Now you're referring to the music as it being ludacris? What the hell is up with you? Next thing you know, you're gonna be tellin' me that I should dress a bit more conservatively and consider switching out my heels for flats because a real woman should never show off her body as my mother would put it in a nice way."

Kayla sarcastically mentioned as she smoothed down the flyaway black strands of hair but she wasn't too far off from the truth, in all honesty here.

As much as I didn't like talking about my mother, Mikayla's mom was one of the bitchiest, conniving people that I've ever had the pleasure, or rather displeasure, of meeting before in my youth.

I had only met her a few times before but she made Elodie look like a goddamn saint, mainly from how much she berated Kayla on a daily basis.

If it wasn't about her terrible choices with employment, then it was about how much money she should be bringing in or how she should be searching for the next eligible bachelors or how she'd never land said next eligible bachelors if she didn't try harder.

Elodie may be a bitch and possibly the worst person alive for taking advantage of me and never giving a shit about anyone or anything but Mikayla's mom was just an asshole, plain and simple.

So much for that advice the world gives you when you're a kid about how your mother will be the only one who truly loves you.

Tabloids and social media have to stop selling us that shit and start tellin' everybody just how it fucking is with mothers.

That some of them just fucking suck and you just have to deal with it because they gave birth to you and all of that stupid shit that comes with it.

"Nothing's up with me, I just don't like the music they play here a lot of the time…."

I trailed off as I pulled a few items out of my locker such as my sneakers and the necessary essential items like my phone and wallet which I needed on me almost 24/7, especially when I was going to be driving to the bakery soon for my apprenticeship and I needed to have such items in case of emergencies.

Like say, if I was in a hit-and-run car accident and I didn't have my phone on me, what would I do then?

Find the nearest payphone that didn't exist anymore so I could call for some help?