Marie ended up spending the night at Jamal's house after they had left Red Lobster. The night went pretty well, just as any first date would go. You would think that since the first date was good, that means that Jamal and Marie would be on their way to having a good relationship right? Well not if Layla has anything to do with it.
"I'm on my way Layla." Jamal said to Layla over the phone as he hopped in the car, starting it up.
"Okay, don't keep me waiting too long," Layla replied playfully.
"Ya cousin not gonna be around is she?"
"She shouldn't, she get off at 7 and she comes around around 9, so we have time to do what we want and she'll never know a thing." Layla explained.
"Oh ighh, can't wait to see you sexy!" Jamal said hanging up the phone. The time was 4:45 when Jamal left his house to drive to Layla's house.
"I wonder why Layla not answering her phone." Marie thought as she called Layla many times and her phone kept going to voicemail. "Maybe her phone dead and she sleeping." Little does she know, Layla blocked Marie's number for the night.
Marie pulled up to Layla's house around 7, she had gotten off early today and she had decided to surprise her cousin, she had went and bought a big platter of wings from the wing spot down the street and some sodas, she had planned for her and Layla to have a girls night.
"That looks like Jamal's car, but it could be one of Layla's friends." Marie thought as she got out of the car and bought the food into Layla's house and let herself in. There was a male voice and a female voice coming from upstairs, so Marie being her usual nosey self went up the stairs to see what was going on. From Layla's doorway you could see a brown skin man with dreads on top of her cousin. "Oh hell no!" Marie thought as she hurried down the stairs, grabbed a knife, and ran back up. She bust open the door.
"SO WHAT IS THIS!?" Marie exclaimed startling both Layla and Jamal.
"Oh, Marie," Layla and Jamal gasped, jumping up and wrapping the covers around themselves.
"So this what we doing now Layla!? Stealing peoples boyfriends!?"
"It's nothing like that Marie. Listen," Layla tried to explain.
"No! And you Jamal, you are something else, so this what you do. Is this because I didn't wanna have sex with you last night? UNBELIEVABLE!" Marie scoffed, as she proceeded to stab Jamal in his back.
Jamal and Layla screamed, as Layla began to call the police. By the time the police had came, Marie had stabbed Layla in her chest.
"Let's go young lady!" The cop yelled as he handcuffed Marie, and two paramedics ran in and started to ask Jamal and Layla questions.
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My First Crime (a short story)
Підліткова літератураLayla and Marie were best friends as well as cousins. Everything Marie had Layla had to have better, it was always a competition between them. But what happens when Layla can't find better than what Marie has?