Us: The Novel Of Friends

Third Introduction

Layla POV

Picture this, a girl in a small town, with pictures on her wall of big cities, and took any opportunity to escape the small town, even If I had to come back.  

I grew up in Texas, my parents weren't together, I didn't talk to my drunk of a father. I was content without him.

High school was alright, I was in plays, and very theatrical and artsy, or so I liked to think of myself, but my friends did too.

I wasn't that "Queen bee", I didn't date the football captain, or the entire football team for that matter. I mainly kept to my journaling and to my art. My freshman year, I met a wonderful girl, brand new, Adalyn Lancor, She had cute style, kind of 70's 80's chic. She was very into theater, thanks to me, and introduced me to Karlee, who was a super talented singer. We kind of started to conquer the hallowed halls Junior and Senior year. We were even in a band, The Pretty Reckless (yes I know that's already a band), It kind of faded because Karlee was picked up on her own solo career after high school, but during high school we were basically the "bad ass chicks", and were treated like royalty.

I dated a guy in high school, he was a dreamy fine arts kid, who also was captain of the soccer and swim team. We met through art, and he helped me a lot with anything I needed (music or art related). We eventually started dating, around my junior year, and it was amazing, I fell for him. He was my best friend. The only thing was he was a senior then, and went off to college, and the distance got hard, he escaped this small town. and never turned around.

In some ways I did the same after high school. I headed to a school in Austin, Majored in Music, which wasn't the intention at all, and minored in art. I went on to teach Music Therapy at a hospital in Seattle. and also ran into Adalyn, and helped her with her coffee shop.

As for the question I avoid at christmas time when I go back home, My dreaded love life. I was single, and had been for some time. Besides my relationship in high school, I had been in one other which was in college, he was on a full ride scholarship for Lacrosse, and was studying to be a pediatrician. We met in a biology class my sophomore year. I wondered why I was in a bio class too, when my major was music. We started studying together, and eventually fell and love. We dated for three years, and he proposed to me the day after we graduated our four year college. We had a date set and everything, and then med school consumed him, and he went through a lot of hard times, where the drinks got stronger, and he didn't come home as much.

Now I was on my own, sure I got the occasional phone number from guys at the coffee shop. I really wasn't interested.