Parents

The treehouse

They arrive at Nyla's during the journey there she set down some rules to ensure Tamara knew she couldn't mess around.

They went inside and headed straight through the house into the garden, Lila showed them her treehouse. It was so cute, it had little windows and beanbags inside. They climbed up the unsteady ladder and pushed their way through the rickety door. Tamara slouched down into one of the beanbags, the other two copied.

Tamara hauled her backpack off her shoulders and set it down in front of her, unzipping the front compartment and pulling out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter.

"U guys ever smoked?" She asked grinning.

"Erm no." Lila looked at Tamara

"Nope, wait tam is that what's in ur hand?" Jack questioned

"Yeah do u want one?" Tam said while grabbing her lighter.

"No tam stop, my mum will kill u if she sees." Lila begged.

"Lila it's fine she won't see me,"

Tamara lit her cigarette and moved closer to the window, unaware how much smoke there was.

"Jack do u want a puff?"

"Tam I shouldn't , my parents would ground me if they found out,"

"Don't be a baby"

Jack really wanted to give it a try, he knew he shouldn't but he caved. Lila just sat there scrolling on TikTok not wanting to get involved with what they were up too.

Tamara stood by the treehouse window, blowing the smoke out, not wanting to hotbox the room. Just as she blew out another cloud of smoke Nyla came storming into the garden, she had been watching out the kitchen window.

"Crap, no Tam if she sees me she will tell my parents!"

"Jack just give it to me, I'll cover for u,"

They all got up and climbed down the ladder to see Nyla stood face filled with anger. She was beyond angry.

"Tamara what the hell do u think ur doing, smoking in my daughters treehouse, I knew u were badly behaved but not this bad!"

"Nyla I'm sorry I didn't mean to!"

"How do u not mean to! Jack was u smoking up there too ?"

"No I wasn't,it was just Tam!"

"Tamara is that right?"

"Yes they both said no so I didn't pressure them , I'm not like that."

They went inside and Nyla grabbed Tamara's bag and took the rest of the cigarettes and her lighter out of her bag,she searched through the rest, that's when she found a small plastic bag filled with white powder. her face dropped.

"Tamara go sit in the living room."

Tamara knew what she had found, she considered running out the house but knew that would just make matters worse.

Nyla decided to call Angela, she knew Lucy would be so upset to find out her daughter had been smoking and quite possibly doing drugs.

On the phone:

"Hey Ange."

"Nyla is everything alright?"

"No not at all,"

"What's going on?"

"They decided to go up to Lila's treehouse and Tamara thought I wouldn't notice her smoking."

"Are u kidding?"

"That's not even the worst part..."

"Nyla?"

"I searched her bag and found what looks to be cocaine."

"Oh my god! Have u told Lucy?"

"No I thought I would call u first, I don't know how to tell her,"

"Do u want me to tell her, I'm near her apartment now?"

"If u don't mind u know her better and I don't know how she will react,"

"Of course, please tell me Jack didn't smoke?"

"He said he didn't so do what u will with that,"

"I'll go talk to Lucy now, bye Nyla,"

"Bye Angela,"

They hang up.

Angela made her way to Lucy's apartment complex dreading having to tell her what her daughters been up to. She was hesitant to knock. But she did, Tim was the one to answer the door.

"Angela? Is everything ok?" Tim asked worriedly.

"Can I come in?"

Lucy was in the kitchen washing up when she saw Angela.

"Ange what's going on?"

"Let's sit down,"

"Is it Tam! Is she ok?" Lucy's face dropped

"She's fine she's still at Nyla's."

They sit down on the couch, Angela looks them both dead in the eye,

"Did u know Tamara smokes?"

"WHAT!" Tim jumped up.

"Ange what do u mean?" Lucy asked

"Lucy was smoking in Lila's treehouse and Nyla caught her."

"Oh my god, what the hell is wrong with her?" Lucy's voice began to break.

"That's not the worse part.."

"Angela?" Tim raised an eyebrow

"Nyla found what looked to be cocaine in her bag,"

"Ur lying." Lucy shook her head in disbelief.

"Luce I'm sorry, it's true."