The Darkness In Disguise

Chapter 1

Awakening today was like living in the past all over again. The dark room brings back old memories. The memories of leaving him there. I feel awful that we had to leave him. I bet by now he hates me for not taking him with. But today is my first day of high school. So better get a cute outfit or whatever. New year, hopefully new memories. So I crawl out of my warm, cosy bed and I pick out an outfit for today. So I am gonna wear something casual but cute. I pick out a tank top with a pair of jeans and sneakers. I tie up my hair and I walk out of my room.

"Mom? You awake?" I shout from the top of the stairs. I heard nothing. So I guess my mom is still sleeping. Slowly, I walk downstairs to find my  mom on the kitchen counter making out with some random guy. "MOM!!!!! What are you doing?!" I shouted while feeling slightly embarrassed and 100 percent disgusted. "Oh? Honey, what are you doing awake?!" Mom said in surprise. The guy slowly climbed off of my mom and headed out the front door. "Mom... WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH YOU!!!!!" I shouted at my mom while nudging her. "Don't you dare talk to me like that!!! I am your MOTHER!" She shouted and slapped me in the face. "Owww!!!" I said in pain and ran to my room.

I know what happens now. My mom chases me and I have to lock myself in my room and hear my mom shouting at me from the other side. And I thought today was going to be different. I take out my phone which contains my headphones and I begin to listen to some music. Music always calms me down after my mom has her episodes. I don't mean like seizures but more like her being abusive and drunk. She isn't always like this but if I ever disrespect her then she has her episode. I remove the headphones off of my head to hear if my mom has stopped screaming and banning on the door. I heard nothing which was a good thing, I hoped.

Slowly I walk towards the door. Feeling a little scared I slowly open the door. The moment I look outside the door is when I see that my mom had left. Good thing she did. Carefully, I look around to see if my mom isn't hiding somewhere. She does that too and when she sees me, she pounces on me. But instead of investigating I ran down the stairs and out of the front door. I can probably walk to school from my house. On the way I saw a bunch of school bullies.

"Hey, Layla. How was your morning?" One of the bullies, Elana said with a smile spread across her face. At this school I am very popular. I never wanted to be but they just decided that I was cool or something like that. "Oh, my morning was amazing! How was yours, Elana?" I asked her while returning a smile. "My morning? Well my mom kept on telling me that I should take more responsibility for my actions. Meaning she's talking about me bullying kids." She said looking a little disappointed. How could it be a bad thing? At least her mom doesn't sleep around with guys and is abusive.

"Yeah, but don't you think it's a little mean when you attack another person? Do you think that it would be cool or nice if someone started hurting you and they didn't even tell you why?" I said looking into her dark brown eyes. "Oh, I never thought of it like that. But I guess your right." She said looking at me while smiling. "Well, See ya later. My mom dropping me off today. Bye!" She said while walking away. "Bye!" I said while smiling.

After that I went back to walking and looking normal. Even though on the inside I was crying for an eternity. As I continued walking I kept on walking past Elana's car. I kept on waving as I pasted the car. Waving and smiling, that's my way of showing people to not worry about me. I can't stand it when people worry about me. It makes me feel like I am the centre of attention. And that I don't like. So I smile and pretend that I am okay but I'm not. Sometimes I wish I could start my life all over again. Start fresh, I don't think that I would mind being the bullied nerd of the school just as long as I have a normal family. But not all our wishes come true.

Eventually, Elana's car drove past me and I was glad. I was kind of sick of faking. You know that not everyone can pull off lying. But I can only pull it off for that long and then I need a break. So what am I going to do about my mom? Hmmm? I don't know if I should take action or not. My mom is emotional unstable about my dad's death and I don't know what to do. Oh to fill you in, my dad was murdered by a young man during summer break. My mom and I went out to go eat when my dad had a late shift at work. It was then that the killer went to my house and trashed it.

Then when dad got home the man thought that he was a witness so he killed him. And got rid of all the evidence. That night mom couldn't stop crying until a few days later. She went on a dating site. She is a very beautiful women and she got a lot of dates with lots of men. But they are all just a distraction to what really is the matter. She lost her true love. The only one for her. And deep down she knows that she can never replace him. But anyway I should probably stop talking because I am already at school. I saw a bunch of students making out, some of them were half naked and one couple was nude, which was worrying.

Anyway, my best friend is Lily. She is kind of my only friend here, well true friend. Me and her share all our secrets with each other. She is just so amazing. She has brown eyes with long chestnut hair and she is really tall. Her beauty can get her any guy that she would like. Of course she doesn't do that often only when she really and I mean REALLY likes someone. But I think this year will be different for us both. I hope.

But I should stop boring you with my background and get back to the story. So I walk around for a while looking for Lily. After a few minutes I found her sitting under a tree, crying? Why is she of all people crying? "Lily? Why are you crying?" I asked sitting down next to her. "S-she c-called me a... S-slut." She said while stuttering. "Who? Who told you that shit?" I asked her infuriated. "Elana..." She said and I saw that the floor was wet? She cried so much that the floor around her was damp. "I'll be right back." I started running through the corrider. Eventually I found Elana beating up some random kid.

"Elana!!! Why did you call Lily a Slut!" I shouted walking towards her. She turned to look at me. "Just calling her-" Her lips were at the entrance of my ear. "What she is." She whispered in my ear and started to walk away.

Hey Guys!!!! I hope that you guys are enjoying the book as much as I LOVVVEEEE WRITING IT!!! I would like to ask you guys a question: Who Do You Think The Mysterious Man Is Who Killed Her Dad?       SPOILER!!!! It is someone..... SORRYYYY!!!! I can't tell you but you'll have to wait and see.