My Happy Little Pill

Chapter 1\\ A Troubled Girl

Jayla Marshal POV

Complicated
Angry
Criminal
Mysterious
Druggie
Bad

Are just the few names i pick out as i walk down the hall of North Greenpoint High. But do i care.... not at all.

Everyone in this dump are either too stupid to graduate or so stuckup they have silver spoons shoved up their a**es and i couldn't give a dam about any of them....
My motto is "Life's too short to care about what stupid pricks think about you. So be just that.... you"

And thats exactly what I've always done. I say what i want, do what i want and wear what i want. Like today i have my black ripped skinny jeans on paired with my black nike sneekers. A white singlet and my signature cropped leather jacket.
My hair is also so beautifully styled by the wind from my black and silver ducati diavel power cruiser (thats a type motorbike for thoes who don't know)

And there's that stupid bell......

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Two hours later after my first classes are over its break.

And let me tell you i have been dying for a cigarette all morning!!!

I head straight for the doors to the bleachers where all the "Druggies" hang. But as soon as i'm about to push the door open i hear an annoying voice call my name.

"Jayla!" Oh how i wanna slap him for using my full name. No one calls me that anymore....

"Levi how many times do i have to tell you its just Jay. Don't call me Jayla" i hiss as i turn to see his arrogant smirk plastered on his face.

Meet Levi (or Lee for short) everybody. He's the schools most popular boy who has girls lined up to even have a chance at touching the "holy ground" he walks on.

It makes me sick.

"Oh common Jay you know you want me. I can take you right now if you really want" he whispers into my ear making me shiver. And NOT in the good way.
"Hunter i would rather crash my bike than do that with you. So please run back to your stuped perfect life and leave me out of it." I say as i turn and head out the doors.

He is the most infuriating person i know and he sure knows how to push all the right buttons to get me wound up..... Now i really need that cigarette.

As i approach my small group i see Ash, Hayden and Jessie-lee all of which are halfway through their smoke.

"Oi Jessie light me up will ya?!" I call out as i approach.

"No worries girl what was the hold up anyway?" "Stupid F***ing Levi is my problem. He keeps popping his perfect little head in my face every chance he gets and its really starting to piss me off." I rant before taking a long drag of the cigarette Jessie gave me.

However i regret it straight after as i beging coughing.... "geez Jess what did you put in here. This is some strong stuff!" I swear she has a different mix of crap every time she re-stocks.

"Haha do you like it girl? cause theres plenty more where that came from. And yeah i had my guy up it a bit ya know. I wasnt gettin the same hit from the old stuff and this is what he gave me. I thought it was a nice surprise."

"Dont get me wrong this is good. But a bit of warning next time would be nice k? Cause i wouldn't have taken such a long drag ahaha"

We all then had a small laugh at my little incident before finishing break and heading back in to finish off the day.....

(AN: if you can't tell i don't smoke- sorry- no harsh judgement please)

***

After school and the short drive home. I had just put my bike round the back when i heard a smash come from inside the house.

You see i lived on the west side of town. An area not visited by others unless you had direct business, you lived here or you were really stupid.

I immediately knew mum was back on the meds and alcohol, and she had managed to go almost a week sober as well.......

I headed inside to look for her and to calm her down.

Even though she was an angry drunk she never hurt me unless she threw the odd bottle and it hit me or i cut myself cleaning it up. But it was very rare and when she was sober she always felt so bad so it didnt bother me too much.

But... as soon as i walked in the back door i felt a beer bottle smash against my right arm hurting like a B**ch!!!!!

The impact forced me to stagger back fallin over and down the few steps leading off the back porch.

I landed on my front wacking my face on the rough ground with dirt smearing over me.

It took me a second or two before i realised what had happened and for the pain to fully set in. And boy did it HURT!!!!

I then slowly made my way off the floor and inside to clean up my wounds in the bathroom.

I had bits of glass in my arm along with multiple cuts leading from my neck to my hand as i had taken my jacket off when i had put my bike away. I them looked in the mirror to see a large graze on my forhead and what looked like a black eye forming..... great.

After i was done i headed out to check on mum. And in her usual style was passed out on the couch with a bottle in her hand. Carefully i removed the bottle, put her in a comfy position and placed a light blanket over her.

I do love my mum. Then reason she's like this is beyond her and is most certainly not her fault, so i dont blame her. She was aiming for the door anyway..... That damn
stupid door...

Once she was ok. I made myself a cheese tostie for dinner and headed off to my room to do minimal homework and binge watch movies.

Monday night was my only homework night as everyone i know is to shattered from the weekend to want to go out and i have nothing better to do. And i do want to pass school so i can get outta here asap!

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Hi guys!!!

Thanks for giving this book a chance. I also just wanna say. I am writing this on my phone so i may use short hand or spell something wrong with auto correct or something like that. so if you could just point it out and i will go back and fix the mistakes later - that would be great ;)

Thanks for reading xx