Sighing she looked down at Corey's sleeping face, her parents had left again, leaving her in Mrs. Riffin's care, she was at work all day and left so early in the morning you would hardly even notice here living in the house. Laney had woken up no less than two hours ago, and still sleep hadn't come to her, rolling back onto her side she glanced at the clocks blaring red numbers, 4:28. She mentally groaned, throwing her bare legs over the edge of the bed and shuffled through the dark room towards the bathroom at the end of the hall.
Flipping the light on and closing the door silently she sighed to herself, her head leaning against the door as she sunk down to the floor. Her mind was a buzz as her thoughts began to swarm and her nails dug into her skin; it was easy to keep her friends in the dark, it was when she was alone that she could feel herself coming apart. Laney was too tired to cry, it seemed like she could never sleep now, and on top of that her grades were near failing; to her astonishment she had managed to get through the first two terms without keeling over and having to repeat her Junior year.
She had become numb to her emotions, it was too hard to fight them, to suffer and struggle because of them; instead she let her body tell her when and what she needed, relief came to her in more than one form, whether she needed physical harm or she needed to escape from the usual drawl of her life, she had the answer. But it was when the house was quiet that she could get away with murder, nobody to act or lie to, there was still Corey, but he wasn't one to worry over, he could sleep like the dead during the week; not to mention his oblivious to her situation, Laney kept her wrists and hips covered from sight, Corey usually thought she was saving herself from the curious glances that were sure to come her way at school, but that was far from the case. She wanted to save herself from the same look he always gave her when he disapproved of her actions, not wanting to admit it to herself but Corey was the one person who could actually affect her.
Taking a breath Laney pushed her hair from her eyes and replaced the razor where she found it, replacing the gauze on her wrist and stumbling back towards Corey's room, her head emptied, and sleep beckoning to her.
She was sick, but boy did it feel good.
.oO0Oo.
It seemed like only seconds of darkness had passed before she was shaken awake, light splintering into the room through closed blinds, Corey's face hovering above her. "Lanes, it's time to wake up."
Groaning she knew it would only be worse if she fought him, if she was lucky she would be able to convince the school nurse that she needed to take herself home. Sitting up and rubbing her eyes she flinched as the newly made wounds screamed in protest at the sudden alien movement, but she ignored it. "I'm up." She whispered, pulling the long red hair back from her face and tying it into a sloppy bun, today was not going to be a good day.
Watching Corey shrug off her cold awakening and sling his bag over his shoulder, "I'll be downstairs, breakfast's on the table, we have to leave in 20."
Nodding Laney stood up, leaving the black shorts where they were she replaced the old t-shirt with one of Corey's hoodies, and stepping into her converse before slugging down stairs after the blue haired boy.
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