Before "The Taylors"

Tami in High School

“Moe, I’m over it!” Tami Hayes yelled at her boyfriend. “All we do is fight and frankly it’s getting old.” She stormed out of the restaurant and started walking home.

“Oh hell no little lady you aren’t leaving like this.” Moe said following his girlfriend out the doors.

“It’s done! We’re done! You mean nothing to me anymore!” she yelled in-between tears. Moe grabbed her arm and pushed her to the ground.

“We’re done when I say we’re done, do you understand?”

“Put your hands on me again and this problem is going to be bigger than just a jackass acting tough, you hear?” she pushed him away and walked home.

“Sweet home alone, again” she sarcastically thought to herself. Tami made her way to her parents bar and poured herself a drink, vodka on ice. With her only being 16 this was the only way she could drink, most of her friends had fake id’s but she got hers taken away too many times to get another. Her parents were never home and her sister was always out and about so all Tami did was sit home and get drunk by herself.

Tami’s dad, Louis, was a lawyer. He worked mostly days and spent his nights fucking young gold diggers at the casinos, everyone knew what he was doing but no one could confront him about it. He knew they knew so every morning he would slip 50 dollar billions under her and her sister’s pillows before he went to work and he would put a 100 dollar bill under his wife. Tami kept her mouth shut and spent the 50 dollars on whatever drugs she could get her hands on that week.

Tami’s mom, Alana, was a stay at home mom, which was funny because she never actually stayed at home. She would go out to the bars and drink, or the clubs and drink, or the hotels and drink. If she was home she was either passed out on the floor or so wasted that she was falling down the stairs. She never wanted to be sober because when she was sober she thought about Louis and how he doesn’t love her anymore. Where do you think Tami got her alcoholism from?

Tami’s younger sister Shelly was 14, only two years younger than Tami. Shelly was smart, right when she found out her daddy was sleeping around she left, not officially but enough to never have to deal with her parents. She moved in with her best friend Kelly and only came home on holidays because that’s the only time her parents noticed she was gone.

Tami was a wild child, no rules, no parents, and a big house that no one was ever home in. She was the one who had the parties after every Friday night football game and she was the one who every football player wanted as their rally girl because she did everything, everything for them. That’s how she met Moe, star wide receiver of the Waco Wildcats located in Waco Texas. Moe is 18 and a senior at the high school and he met Tami when she was in 8th grade and he took her virginity like it was nothing, that’s when she became hard, and cynical she became a tough guy because she didn’t want to get hurt like the way he hurt her when she found him with her best friend the same night he took her innocence. Two years later they are still together, but not officially together. If you ask Moe they have been dating for the past two years but if you ask Tami they have been broken up since 8th grade and are just seeing each other.

“You think you’re tough shit?” Tami yelled at Moe through her window screen.

“Tam, you’ve been drinking I can tell, just let me in!”

“Fuck off, I said we we’re done, do you understand? WE ARE DONE!” She slammed the window shut and poured herself another drink. The phone rang. Waco High School read on the caller ID. “Shit” she thought.