"Layla...Layla get up!" a voice rudely screams into my sensitive ears. It was quiet for a second, and I allowed the darkness to swallow me back whole again until someone had other ideas.
"Ok, you've left me no choice." Suddenly, my body feels cold, and I realize that she took away my damn covers.
"Rose, come on! I'm so tired, give me five more minutes." I asked, well more like begged, her. She looked at me and laughed.
"I told you to stop watching that stupid show. I told you that you were going to regret it the next morning, but no! You decided not to listen to me, and now you must face the consequences." She said while looking at me with disappointment. She then left my room to start getting ready for school herself.
I let out a scream into my pillow before dragging myself to the bathroom. When I get to there, I open the door and see that someone has beaten me to it.
"Close the door, idiot! Ever heard of knocking?" a very annoying voice says to me as he covers up his private parts with a magazine.
"I don't know, ever heard of locking a door?" I respond with the same tone. He was about to speak again until he was interrupted by another voice.
"Don't even think about it Hunter, if Rose hears you two fighting again she'll knock you both out and I'm not in the mood to deal with that so early in the morning." a man says as he leans against the door frame of the bathroom and stares at me with a look that I can't decipher.
"Morning Layla." He says with a bored look on his face.
"Hey, Aiden," I respond with a smile. I turn back walk to my room and decide to dress first today. I put on a pair of black leggings and a baggy white hoodie. I grab my bag and go back to the bathroom.
If you look into the mirror with me, you can see the bags under my dull gray eyes and my messy blond hair. I take care of my business with the toilet, and then I brush my teeth, wash my face, you know the essentials. I decided to leave my hair loose today and transcended my way down the stairs.
"Layla, I already spoke to Rose and Hunter, but if you had anything planned for after school, cancel it and come straight back here, ok?" A beautiful Lady who is also known as Katherine, also known as the one who raised me and everyone else I've interacted with today.
"Yes ma'am," I said and began to make my way to the kitchen for breakfast. I take out two slices of bread and put them in the toaster. I walk over to the refrigerator, and as I'm going to get the butter, someone snatches it before I can even blink.
"Ha, you fucking suck," Hunter says as he runs away with the butter in his hands.
"Hunter, I swear to god! Quit being an idiot!"
"You're the one who-"
"My beautiful friends, have we been fighting again?" a sickly sweet voice says, interrupting our little dispute.
"No, they weren't Hunter was just giving Layla back the butter now, isn't that right?" Katherine said without looking up from her phone. He rolled his eyes and nodded. Hunter walked back over to me and gave me back my butter. As I was eating the last of my toast, I hear Aiden come down the stairs.
"Aiden, whatever you have going on after school, cancel it and bring everyone straight back here," Katherine said as she started gathering her things for work.
"What?! But I was-"
"I don't care. Home after school. Don't argue with me." After that statement, she quickly left, leaving him no time to reply.
"Does she seem a little off today?" I questioned out loud while staring at the door.
"Just shut up," Aiden snarled as he walked outside to his car. Growing up without knowing our parents has affected us all differently as we've all grown up, but I'd say that Aiden is the one who struggles with it the most. Rose handles it by trying to be the strongest one; even when we're at our lowest points in life, she's always there. Hunter acts out a lot as a way to handle his emotions from what I can tell. He and I have never seen eye to eye on anything that causes us to fight a lot, but Rose is always there to stop us. Aiden shuts himself off and away from everyone; he may stand at 6'2, but he truly knows how to stay unknown. I like to see myself as the hope of the group. I know our parents are out there somewhere; they feel so close yet so far. I wish I could explain this feeling better, but I can't.
"Hey, fairy freak, move out of the way, trying to go through here!" Hunter says as he shoves me out of the way. I scoff and start walking to the car myself.
Hunter and I sit in the back while Aiden and Rose are in the front. Aiden starts driving away and straight for the school while I lay back, plug my earphones in, and start listening to music. I look away from the window and lock eyes with him for a second before looking back at the road. Hunter noticed this and started to gag out loud until I kicked him in the shin hard enough to shut him up. There was silence with just the hum of the radio playing in the background the rest of the way. Hunter and I get dropped off at a different section from Aiden and Rose because I'm a Junior in high school and Hunter is a sophomore, and they are Seniors. Seniors and Freshman go to one section, while Juniors and Sophomores go to another. Before we can walk away, Aiden stops us.
"Be here before three or else-"
"We'll be here asshole, you don't have to threaten us," Hunter says and begins to walk off with me following carefully behind. I turn around to see someone else dropping off their kid to school. I look back in front of me to see Hunter waiting for me by our school's exterior.
"Hey Layla, you think you can stop making lovey-dovey eyes with your boyfriend in the car all the time? It's pretty disgusting." He says with amusement in his eyes as he watches me turn into a blushing mess.
"S-Shut up!" I yelled at him as we walked to our first period together. He laughs, and then he gets quiet.
"I don't understand why you don't just tell him, even Rose sees how he looks at you, maybe you're the thing that can bring back the old Aiden." He says while looking at me hopefully. Aiden wasn't always so stuck up and scary, he used to be so carefree and full of life. When he started his sophomore year, he began to distance himself from us and getting in with the wrong crowd. He turned ice cold and did some stupid stuff that either got just him in trouble or we would take the blame because I- we couldn't let him destroy his future. He's a total book worm like me, but he's also the smartest person I know. It's one of the things I love most about him.
"Maybe one day," I said as I walked away from him and started my boring everyday life as I walked through the doors of my first period.
Little did I know that today was going to be a day that I would remember for the rest of my life.