The Fire Within

Prologue

La'zaiyah! La'zaiyah! La'zaiyah! Get your hip down stairs now before i come up there, I could hear my mom basically screaming from the kitchen. I could smell the fried bacon,egg and sausage invading my nostrils. Fully awake now i took a hot shower and then pinned my long curly red hair in one while i skipped down stairs with my favorite anti-social black tee and high waisted back shorts. Despite you thinking by now im a loner because of the whole shirt. Im far from it, im a social butterfly. Running to grab a piece of bacon from the pot and plopping it in my nouth while my mother scolds me.
You just cant wait can you, my mom said while shifting her weight from one foot to the next. My mom was beautiful but i looked nothing like her where as her hair was blonde mines was red, her eyes were blue but mines were brown. We had slight similarities like our skin and height. I wasnt short but I wasn't freakishly tall either. My mother name is Elle short for Emelia. She would always say how i look like my father but i hated him. I hated him for leaving my mom and even worse getting married to my mom's best friend. It gets worse he has a step son and a child with that traitor. I try not to think of it but its hard. I have zero communication with him since i turned twelve and when my mom would ask me to speak with him i would refuse after my 14th Birthday the calls eventually stopped. Snapping me out of my gaze my mom slowly takes out deliciously looking chocolate cake from the oven whie singing me happy birthday.

Zaiyah im so proud of you and made me the best mother i can be. I love you babydoll, the smile on her face didn't reach far for some reason and i was worried but ignored. Recently she has been going to the doctor alot but refused to tell me why exactly. I love her and dont want to push her. So it is always dismissed.

I kissed my mom goodbye before i headed off to my best friend car to drop us to school. Unlike me Danni is shy but when you actually know her she's a non stop talking gossiping machine. Anything you want to know about anyone she got it.

When we got to school everybody was staring because of what my dare bestie on the side of me is wearing or the fact her and her boyfriend stiles are trying to get in each others throat. I walked away leaving the teo to probably make a baby right in the hallway. Classes past like a blur. When  lunch arrived i received a message from my mom....

Dear zaiyah,
I want you again to know how much I love you and Im doing this for the best. I dont have much time and im glad i got to see you grow up but its time. I love you soo much. Bye babydoll.

I stared at the phone in shock.

Hey Zai are you ok? You look like your about to vomit danni said, with her fingers lightly brushing my face when a loud speaker boomed through the school asking that i come to the office immediately. As i neared the office door i saw my father and two police officers stand along with my principal. Hands shaky and voice broken i demanded to know whats going on.

Im sorry but, your mothers dead. Those were the only words i heard before darkness engulfed me.