She walks to school with the lunch she packed
Nobody knows what she's holdin' back
Wearin' the same dress she wore yesterday
She hides the bruises with linen and lace
Layla smiled as she boarded the bus behind Will. "Didn't you wear that outfit yesterday?" he asked looking at her.
"Um, yeah, I fell a sleep in my cloths and I had to rush this morning; so I had no time to change," she answered, happy that she had found a good excuse.
The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask
Miss Coles- the health- teacher looked up at Layla. She saw a large bruise on her face, that she was trying to hide with makeup. She didn't question her about it figuring she took a nasty fall.
It's hard to see the pain behind the mask
Layla laughed at the jokes that Zach was telling her and Magenta. But all the happiness was a mask. She was dead inside and could never really laugh again.
Bearing the burden of a secret storm
Sometimes she wishes she was never born
She winced as Warren put his arm around her. She had turned in her beating last night; it had gotten her hit many times in the shoulder. Warren was asking her something about if she was coming to the Paper Lantern. She loved her friends, really, she did; but sometimes she wished, that she'd never existed.
Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where she's loved
Concrete angel
Layla smiled as Will flew her and Warren to Italy, for eat lunch. With them, she was loved and never in danger.
Somebody cries in the middle of the night
Tears slid down Layla's face as her father walked into her room at 11:00 that night. She knew what was coming and squeezed her eyes shut; waiting for the first blow.
The neighbors hear, but they turn out the light
"What's that?" Warren asked as screams filled the air from a house not far.
"Probably some kid that doesn't want to go to bed," Josie said walking in. "Go to sleep you two" she said giving Will a kiss, then turning off the light as she left.
A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate
Tears fell down Layla's cheeks, as her father hit her across the face.
When morning comes it'll be too late
Layla lay in a pool of her own blood as her heart... stopped beating.
Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
Warren and Will woke to sirens. "What the hell?" Warren questioned as they both walked down stairs. Steve and Josie followed close behind.
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where she's loved
They saw the ambulance was in front of Layla's house. The boys looked at each other then raced foward.
"LAYLA" Will yelled as a man was carrying her bridle style out of the house.
A cop was behind the man escorting Layla's father in hand cuffs saying "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you saw can and will be used against you. You have the right to an attorney, if you can not afford one, one will be provided for you..." He continued but Warren and Will stopped listening.
"She's dead" a young female medic said sadly.
"LAYLA!" Warren and Will cried.
Concrete angel
A statue stands in a shaded place
Will, Warren, Magenta, Ethan, Zach, her relatives, mother, the gangs parents, the teachers, as well as at lest half the students at Sky High were there, at her funeral.
An angel girl with an upturned face
Finally it was only the gang that stood looking up at her grave mark. Will's parents had paid for it, though Will and Warren picked it. It was an angel that was made to look like Layla. She was carved wearing the dress she'd worn to homecoming, she had wings, and her arms were scared, with patches of her face stained to look like bruises.
Tears were running down there faces.
A name is written on a polished rock
Warren fingered her name engraved into the stone as he cried.
A broken heart that the world forgot
"We're sorry Layla," they whispered.
Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
Even as a statue she was not invincible. She could stand through the wind, rain, snow, or hail. She was their angle. But there were thing that could destroy her.
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings
They all looked over to the pond that was in the center of the grave yard. Layla stood smiling at them. She waved, then almost out of no were a boy with shaggy brown hair stood behind her. He waved to them and took Layla's hand.
And she flies to a place where she's loved
Someone going to see another grave walked past them, and they were gone.
"Who was the boy?" Warren asked.
"It was her brother whose name was also Will" Will said turning. The group started to walk away into the setting sun.
Concrete angel A/N I know most of my storys are about abuse. But I can't say enough that child abuse is out there. It can even be your best friend. I know because MY best friend was hit at home, but I didn't see it. She was hit and when I started to notice something was wrong it was to late. She was dead. Her parents are in jail but I COULD have have done something about it if I'd seen it. Please if you think someone's being abused DO SOMETHING. Because it's to late for my friend but mabye not for yours. And it may seem unreal to you. It was to me but my eyes really opened that day. I lived two streets down from her. I ran in my PJ's to her house when I heard the sierens. There was an inch of snow on the ground and it was snowing, but I stood there and watched them take her body out and like in this story I heard the medic say she was dead. My other friend who was her boyfriend was staying with us to because his mom was out of town. I hate that he saw her like that, knowone should have to see that. YOU CAN SAVE SOMEONE