Layla

It was now Friday, and we all agreed that Kaitlin and I would go to school today, and put the plan to work. The plan to get Zander out of the school. I have already talked to Jasper, Brent, and Chris about the plan. Alex, Lisa, and Jack just dropped Kaitlin and I off at school. We both had our backpacks slung over our shoulders as we walked into the building. We were greeted by three boys as soon as we shut the entrance behind us.

“Hey guys.” Kaitlin said first. I waved and gave them a small smile. I was really for when school ends today.

“You look nervous.” Jasper spoke looking at me.

“I am nervous.” I said with a small laugh. “But let’s not waste anytime. We have to get to class.” I spoke, time to put the plan in action. They all nodded in agreement and Jasper and Brent went to their class, as Kaitlin, Chris, and I all went the opposite way to our class. I tried to cover up my black eye as best as I could, with make-up, this morning, but it didn’t work out so I just gave up and took all the make-up I was wearing, off. We walked into the classroom and I was the last one to enter, we were walking to our seating and I saw a few people looking at me.

“Hey Layla, what happened to your face?” One boy, Josh, in the back of the room asked.

“None of your business.” Chris shot at him. We sat in our seats and I gave a smile to Chris that said thank you. When I put my backpack down, the kicking on my chair started. I turned around and gave him the death glare.

“Damn, didn’t know I did such a amazing job on that pretty little face of yours.” Zander chuckled.

“Fuck off prick.” I growled at him.

“Calm down babe, it was just a little trick I use to get all my girls to stay in line.” He said with a smirk on his face.

“Sorry, but I’m not one of your girls.” I spoke with venom. Come on, say something so I can insult you and make you pissed the fuck off.

“Trust me, you will be screaming my name when my dick is inside of you.” He said with pure evil in his eyes. Perfect thing to say Zander, just perfect.

“Oh, you mean that microscopic centipede you call a penis? I might scream, but with laughter. Now, leave me the fuck alone.” I said as I turned around and gave Kaitlin and Chris a wink as they tried to hold back their laughter.

“Okay then, I’ll be seeing you after school.” Zander spoke, I could hear the smirk on his face. And I have to admit, it sent a shiver down my spine when he said those words, I’m pretty freaked out.

The rest of my morning classes went by pretty quickly, which I was hoping wouldn’t happen. I don’t think I’m ready for after school to happen. Chris, Kaitlin, Jasper, Brent, and I were all sitting in the lunch room talking and eating our food.

“So Layla, are you sure this is going to work?” Brent asked.

“Pretty sure. The only thing they might mess up is he catches up to me before I can get to the alleyway.” I replied.

“Well, he is on the football team. Plus I know for sure he is pretty fast.” Chris said.

“Layla is pretty fast as well. She was on the cross country team at our old school.” Kaitlin spoke. I nodded my head, telling them that this was, in fact, true.

“I love a athletic girl!” Jasper said with a smile. I blushed when he said that.

“And you said that why?” Brent asked Jasper.

“Uh..n-no reason..” Jasper stuttered out and then looked down at his food as he began eating again. The rest of lunch was pretty quiet from there on out. When the bell rang we all went to our classes, Jasper and Chris going to art, Brent to music, and Kaitlin and I to gym. At my old school I hated gym, but hear they let us do basically anything was wanted to do. Kaitlin and I went to the girls locker room and changed into shorts and tank-tops, as we also had to put on our sports bra’s.

“What do you think is up with Jasper?” I asked Kaitlin as we were tying our hair up.

“He likes you. Duh.” Kaitlin said, like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

“I don’t think that’s true. But if it is, I just want to get things straight. I don’t like him, I like Jack.”

“I know.” She said with a laugh. “Now come on. We need to go make sure the teacher does not mark us as late.” I nodded in agreement and we walked out of the girls locker room, and into the huge gym. We walked over to the line of people just as soon as Kaitlin’s name was called. She said ‘here’ and then my name was called next. Me replying with a ‘here’ as well. I looked around the room at all the other kids standing up. I guess I never really noticed till now that there is a lot of boys in the class, and only a few girls. I noted that there were only five girls in the class, including Kaitlin and I. I also noted that there is about sixteen boys.

“Okay everyone. You can go do whatever you want. Just want sure you are doing something active.” Our gym teacher, Mrs. James, said to us. We all started making our way around the gym. Some people going to play basketball, some people going to jump rope, others just walking around the gym and talking to their friends. Then there was Kaitlin and I, lacing up our shoes so we can do what we always do in gym class, speed-jog around, not jogging and not really running. Just kinda in the middle We both stood up at the same time after we made sure our shoes are laced.

“Got your headphones?” I asked Kaitlin.

“Shit. I forgot them in my backpack, do you have a extra pair in your pockets?” She asked. Luckily for her, I always carry a extra pair. I pulled out my extra pair of headphones and handed them to her with a smile. “Thanks babe.”

“No problem.” I said with a laugh as I pulled out my ipod and headphones for myself. Kaitlin and I both had these workout bands on our upper arm, were we lace our ipods to, so we can listen to music as we are working out. I switched on my running play listen, which consists of basically everything All Time Low ever made. I pressed play on my ipod and put it in my workout band. I looked over Kaitlin’s shoulder as she put on her workout playlist, which is mostly Pierce The Veil, Black Veil Brides, and Sleeping With Sirens. She copied my actions and put her ipod in her workout band and we gave each other a smile as we started our daily gym workout. We ran around the gym a few minutes, listening to our music, till we noticed the basketball plays staring at our asses as we ran. They tend to do that everyday, but today it was really annoying me.

“Please tell me I’m not the only one who is getting annoyed by them staring at us.” I spoke to Kaitlin.

“You are not. It really pisses me off.” Kaitlin spoke. We both slowed our jogging till we came to a full stop.

“Shall we take care of it then?” I asked with a smirk.

“We shall.” Kaitlin said with a laugh. We walked our way over to the basketball players, and they stopped their game when they saw us approaching, and they approached us as well. I have to admit, I love basketball.

“Can we help you ladies?” One of them asked with a smile, as they all grouped around us.

“You can do us a favor and stop staring at our asses.” I said as I crossed my arms over my chest.

“Sorry, but I’m going to continue to do that.” He said with a laugh.

“Hm, how about we make a little bet.” I said with a smirk. I looked over to Kaitlin and she knew what I was about to say.

“What type of bet?” He asked.

“One v One. You and me.” I spoke.

“Sorry Layla, but this is a man’s game.” He said with a laugh. “You wouldn’t last a minute on the court with me.”

“Then try me. If I win, you guys keep your fucking eyes off of us. It you win, you guys can watch us as much as you want.” I said.

“Fine. Bring it on little girl.” He said with a tone that made me want to just slap him across the face.

“Okay. I’ll go tell Mrs. James to set it up for us. I’ll be back.” I replied, lacing Kaitlin’s arm with mine as I turned us around and we walked away from them. I took my headphones out of my ears as we walked, and pulled my ipod out of my workout band as well. I handed them both to Kaitlin and she put them in her pocket.

“Are you sure you want to do this, Layla?” She asked me.

“Are we already forgetting about who I was in California?” I asked with a smirk

“Forget?! I could never forget! You’re too much of a badass.” Kaitlin replied with a laugh. I laughed as well as we reached Mrs. James.

“Hey girls. What can I do for ya?” Mrs. James asked as she stood up.

“Cameron and I want to have a little one on one basketball game. Can you set it up for us?” I asked.

“You play basketball?” She asked me.

“I sure do. And when I win, I’ll tell the class about how awesome I am.” I said with a laugh.

“You are so cocky.” Kaitlin said with a laugh.

“It’s competition. Of course I’m cocky.” I said looking over to her with a smile.

“Well, I want to let you know that Cameron is the best player on the boys basketball team. So just a little heads up. He’s pretty good.” Mrs. James said as she grabbed her whistle off her seat.

“I understand.” I said as I nodded my head.

“Okay.” She said, nodding her head as well. She brought the whistle to her mouth and blew on it, getting everyone to quiet down and look. “Everyone take a seat on the bleachers. Cameron and Layla. Take to the court.” Kaitlin gave me a good luck hug and I started making my way out the court, where Cameron was already waiting with the ball. Once everyone was sat on the bleachers, Mrs. James came out to the side of the court, so she can be the referee.

Cameron reached his hand out to me, as a show of good sportsmanship. I shook his hand and we both told each other good-luck. Because let’s be real, he’s going to need it.

“Heads or tails? To see who gets the ball first.” Mrs. James said.

“No need. I’ll let Cameron have it first.” I spoke as I waved it off.

“Are you sure? I don’t want a advantage.” Cameron said. Yes, him and his friends were staring at Kaitlin’s and my asses, but he was still a nice guy.

“I’m sure. Not let’s play before class is over.” I said as I checked the ball to him. Mrs. James walked back a few steps, as we started the game I have watched him play before, and I knew his favorite play, was to fake left and break right. Which turned out, to be the first play he made. I am pretty short compared to him, fuck, I’m pretty short compared to everyone. But I still managed to block his shot. Once I blocked the shot, I heard Kaitlin and the others girls cheer for me. Cameron nodded his head with a look of impressiveness. It was my turn for the ball, and I juked him and got a point. I looked back at him and he had a surprised face. I sent him a smirk and we continued the game.

We just finished the game, score ending up at 25 - 12. Me taking home the win. Kaitlin ran up to me as soon as the game finished and she hugged me.

“You did it!” She said with excitement.

“Did you really doubt me?” I asked, taking the towel, she brought for me, and wiping the sweat off my head.

“No. But still!” She said with a laugh. Mrs. James and Cameron both approached us, and we were soon being surrounded by everyone in the class.

“How the hell did you beat me?” Cameron asked, still having a very shocked look on his face.

“Well, I don’t like to brag.” I said.

“So I’ll brag for her.” Kaitlin said. I let out a laugh and let her talk. “Layla was the captain of the girls basketball team at our old school. She was basically the number one player in our whole school, even out of all the boys. She was also the basketball coach for both the Freshmen teams, being boys and girls. So yeah, you can go ahead and be jealous.” She finished. Once she ended I broke out in a fit of laughs as I saw everyone's shocked faces, even Mrs. James looked shocked.

“Have you ever thought of joining the team here?” Mrs. James asked after a minute.

“I have. But I decided not to.” I said.

“Why not? You’re amazing.” Cameron asked.

“Thanks. And I decided not to because everyone that happened in California, is not my life anymore. I have moved on. There is only one thing from California that I am keeping in my life. And that’s this idiot next to me.” I said pointing at Kaitlin.

“Love ya too, Layla.” Kaitlin said as she stuck her tongue out at me.

“Are you forgetting? Everyone loves me.” I said sarcastically.

“Yeah, pretty sure that’s not true.” Kaitlin said laughing.

“Yeah. I know. But just think about what it would be like. To have everyone just falling over for you.” I said with a laugh, as we carried on with our conversation, not even caring that everyone is still around us, well, everyone but Mrs. James.

“You mean like they do for our Dad?” Kaitlin asked.

“Yes! We have to ask Alex to bring us on stage one day. Even if I’m scared shitless about being the center of attention, it just gives me a chance to see what it’s like.”

“Who’s your Dad?” Cameron spoke, breaking Kaitlin and I our of our little world that involved just the two of us. Making us see that everyone’s eyes were on us.

“You haven’t heard yet?” I asked confused. I thought everyone knew already, with Alex posting it on Twitter, him rushing into the school to get me, and Zander saying it to my class.

“Uh, no?” Cameron asked sounding confused. Kaitlin and I looked at everyone else and they all shook their heads, telling us that they didn’t know.

“Do you guys know the band, All Time Low?” Kaitlin asked. Mostly everyone nodded their heads, having huge smiles on their faces.

“That’s my favorite band.” Cameron said with a smile.

“Awesome. Well, Alex, the singer, him and Lisa are our parents.” I said.

“No way.” Cameron said, not believing us. I sighed and pulled my phone out of my pocket, pulling up Twitter. I went to Alex’s Twitter and saw the post he made with the picture of him, Lisa, Kaitlin, and I. I held my phone up to Cameron and let him read it. “Holy shit.”

“Yep.” I said with a laugh. Everyone else looked shocked again. I grabbed Kaitlin’s arm and pushed people out of our way. I was starting to get pretty freaked out in the middle of everyone. Kaitlin and I walked over to the bleachers and she handed me back my ipod and headphones, even the pair she was using. We talked for a few minutes until Cameron came over to us.

“Hey guys.” He said with a smile, as he had a basketball under his arm.

“Hey.” Kaitlin and I said at the same time.

“So Layla, I was wondering if you wanted to go out on a date tomorrow?” He asked, sounding very confident. I heard my phone start ringing next to me, but saw as Kaitlin picked up the phone and looked at the screen.

“Who is it?” I asked her.

“It’s your boyfriend.” She said handing the phone to me. I smirked at her and took it from her hand. I answered the phone, not even answering Cameron’s question.

“Hello?” I asked into the phone.

“Hey beautiful!” Jack’s voice came.

“Haha, Hey Jacky.” I replied with a smile on my face.

“We have everything set up in the alleyway. We just need you to make your ass get here pretty fast. We have thought about it, and we have decided that we are not going to hurt him. The cops are with us already anyways. Oh, and tell Kaitlin that Rian will be there to pick her up after school, and he will drive her to where we are.” He said.

“Kaitlin, Rian is picking you up after school.” I said to the girl next to me.

“Okay.” She said with a smile.

“Okay, told her. How’s your day going?” I asked Jack.

“My day will be much better when I see you!” He said with a chuckle.

“Awe Jack. I miss you.” I complained.

“I miss you, too. What class are you in?”

“I’m in gym right now. Just got done kicking ass at a one v one basketball game. But, gym should be ending in a few minutes. Then I got to go to music, and then I’ll be done for the day.”

“Sounds fun. Did you piss Zander off, yet?”

“Yes Jack. I pissed Zander off.” I said laughing.

“Ah, what did you say?” He asked, I could hear the smirk on his lips.

“Well, he said I would be screaming his name once his dick is inside me. I insulted the size of it, and now he is most likely going to murder me.” I said, trying to hold back my laughter.

“Well, that’s nice.” He said, not even trying to hold back his laughter. “Anyways, I’ll let you get back to doing what you were doing. I’ll see you later beautiful.”

“Okay, bye babe.” I said with a smile, even if he couldn’t see it.

“Bye.” He replied. With those words being said we both hung up the phone, and I put my phone in my pocket. And looked up to see that Cameron was still standing there, looking pretty awkward.

“Boyfriend?” He asked awkwardly.

“Well, he’s not really my boyfriend. But we act like a couple. Somewhat.” I replied.

“So, the date?” He asked, still continuing awkwardly.

“I’m going to have to say no. Sorry.” I said with a sad, small smile.”

“It’s fine. I understand. See ya guys later.” He said and walked away. The bell rang a few minutes later, telling us we can go to our last class of the day. Kaitlin and I were always a few minutes late to music, because we had to change from our gym clothes and take showers, because let’s be real. There is no way in hell we are going to class as sweaty as we are. Once we were finished in the girls locker room, we blow dried our hair and grabbed our backpacks, and walked into the hallway, being met by Mrs. James, as she handed us our late passes, so that we can get into music without getting in trouble. We thanked her and we made our way to music, which just so happened to be on the other side of the building. We walked and walked till we finally got there. We opened the music room door, since it was closed due to the bell ringing about five minutes ago. Kaitlin and I walked to the front of the room and handed out slips to the teacher. He nodded his head and we went to the back of the room. Doing what we normally do, ignoring the rest of the class and doing our of thing, well, we normally pay attention, it just happens to be a free day today. Kaitlin grabbed an acoustic guitar and a guitar pick. I took my lyric book out of my bag and showed what I had written down, to Kaitlin.

“So I was thinking, we can start off with maybe having a slow guitar riff at the start, and pick it up when I get to the chorus.” I spoke.

“Sounds good. Go ahead and sing the from the chorus, that way I can get a little idea of how we should put it together.” Kaitlin said. I nodded my head and started from the chorus of the song. Once I finished singing the chorus Kaitlin said she had a good idea of how the song should go, so I started singing from the start of the song and she brought it in with a low riff.
We finished one run through on the song and I looked around and saw people were looking at us, and the teacher was walking over to us.

“I didn’t know you could play Kaitlin. Layla, your voice is amazing.” He said with a smile.

“Thanks.” I replied.

“Would you like me to put you two in the talent show for the end of the year? You guys sound perfect together.” He spoke to us.

“No thank-” I started, but was cut off by Kaitlin.

“Yes! Put us down as a band! Once we come up with a name, we will talk to you!” Kaitlin said with a huge smile on her face. The teacher nodded, returning her smile, and walked away.

“Kaitlin! You know I can’t sing in front of people! I would have freaked out if I knew everyone was watching us!” I whisper yelled. “Plus, we can’t perform a song, as a band, without having a band!”

“Chris plays guitar, Jasper plays drums, and Brent plays bass.” Kaitlin stated.

“How do you know?” I questioned, confused.

“Chris told me when we were texting the other day.” She said. “Please! Just try! It would be amazing to get your voice out there! Please!” She begged, dragging out the ‘e’ sound. I let out a sigh, giving up.

“Fine.” I said, just when the bell rang. It was time for the plan to happen. Kaitlin and I grabbed our backpacks and walked out of the classroom, and started down the halls. We reached the front doors, where Jasper, Chris, and Brent were all waiting for us.

“Hey. You ready?” Chris asked me once we got to them. I nodded my head and we walked out the doors together, the first person I saw was Zander at the bottom of the stairs. I tried to make it as I didn’t notice him, and talked to my friends once we got to the bottom of the stairs as well.

“Hey Kaitlin, there’s Rian right over there. Go on and head home. Oh, and talk to these three about the whole talent show thing. I think I’m just going to walk home. Tell Alex and Lisa I’ll be home in about an hour.” I said. I really hope this plan works.

“Okay. Be safe. See ya at home.” Kaitlin said giving me a hug.

“Okay, I’ll see ya guys later.” I said hugging her back and sending them all a wave as I walked the other way that they were going. I walked about ten seconds, meeting with Zander’s eyes. I sent him a dirty look and he just smirked at me. I kept walking and walking, till I was out of the school zone. I could hear footsteps behind me. I knew they were Zander’s. I got this really scared feeling, like something bad was going to happen before we even got to the alleyway. But I just pushed it to the side. I continued to walk, not letting Zander know I can hear him. I was about ten feets from the alleyway, when I finally turned around and saw him standing a few feet behind me.

“May I ask why you are following me?” I asked with venom.

“I told you I would see you after school.” He said with a dark, low chuckle as he walked closer to me. I turned around quickly and started running. “Hey! You can’t get away from me!” He shouted, me hearing his footsteps pick up as well. I looked behind me and saw he was only about a foot away from me. I reached the alleyway and turned in, running to the middle of it and turning around to see Zander with a evil glare. “Really? You had to corner yourself in a alley? How stupid can you be? But I must admit, you are pretty fucking quick. Also lost me before you turned into here.”

“W-what are you g-going to do to m-me?” I fake stuttered, as he pushed me up against the wall.

“Same thing I did to the head cheerleader. You will fear me.” He said with dark eyes, that happened to really freak me out.

“A-and what did y-you do to h-her?”

“Oh, you know. A little bit of this, a little bit of that. Oh, and a lot of fucking.” He said with a laugh that made me want to crawl under a rock and just die. I tried to push him off of me and he put his hand around my neck, cutting off my breathing.

“Freeze! Put your hands up!” I heard someone shout from the end of the alley. Zander let go of my neck and turned to see who it was. Well, who they were. Three cops, Alex, Zack, Lisa, Jack, Rian, and Kaitlin.

“You set me up.” He shot at me.

“I sure did.” I said glaring back at him. He huffed and ran the other way, only to be cut off by more cops.

“I don’t think so kid. You’re under arrest.” One of them said as he pointed a gun a Zander. “On the ground. Hand behind your head. Now!” He shouted. Zander did as told and he was cuffed and put into the back of a police car that pulled up. Everyone came over to me, everyone but the cops that is.

“Are you okay, Layla?” Jack asked softly.

“I’m fine. But I believe I’m going to have bruising on my neck by tomorrow morning.” I spoke as I rubbed my neck. Jack put his arms around me and brought me into a hug.

“I still think we should have kicked his ass.” Jack muttered.

“I agree.” Alex also muttered.

“He’s going to jail. Can’t that be enough?” Rian asked.

“Nope.” Alex, Jack, Zack, Kaitlin, and Lisa all said at the same time. Making me laugh. We got everything sorted out with the police and then we walked to the cars.

“I’ll meet you guys back at the house. I’m going to ride with Jack.” I said. Making Kaitlin gasp.

“But, our promise!” She said.

“I know. I know. But I just wanna spend a little bit of time with him.” I said with a laugh.

“Jack, I swear to god man, if you get in a crash with her in the car, if you don’t die. I will kill you myself.” Alex said.

“We’ll be fine. Come on, Layla.” Jack said with a grin as he took my hand and led me to his car. We reached his car and we both got in. Once I saw Alex and Lisa’s car pull out, as well as Rian’s car, I lend over and placed my lips to Jack’s. He took it by surprise, but soon started kissing me back. I smiled into the kiss and pulled away. “Only one more month and we can do that everyday.”

“Can’t wait.” I said with a giggle as I put my seatbelt on. Jack started up the car and pulled out of the parking lot. I put in a random Blink-182 CD, and let the music fill the car, on full blast.

Notes

Next chapter will be a time skip of a month, making it to Layla's birthday.

Anyways!
Zander is taken care of now :)

This was the longest chapter I wrote so far, being 12 pages long. You're welcome. It took me three hours because I kept getting distracted.


I was getting distracted by looking a pictures like this. Don't judge me.

Hope you enjoyed!