Talk Me Down (Discontinued)

Two- Great To Sleep With

As students flooded the school halls, rushing to get out of the hell hole as quickly as possible, I took my time, walking side by side with Lauren and Maddi.

"Alright I'll drive you Maddi cause Elena has her car and so do you Chlo, so you two can just follow us to my house." Lauren explained as we reached the carpark. Maddi was the only one in our group without her license.

"Yeah, but I am actually going to rush home first. Just remembered that Layla is coming home today." I said happily.

Layla is my housemate. You see, I live in my parents house but they don't live there. They only come home for four weeks every year and that's generally around Christmas time. They live over in London. My father is a business man and my mother can do her work from anywhere in the world. My little brother, Jackson, lives with them. He's ten years old now. I haven't seen him in over eight months and I miss him so much. You're probably wondering why I stayed her in Australia right? Well, it's simple really, I didn't want to leave everything I knew and loved. My parents told me they were moving over three years ago. At that time, I was in year nine in high school. I didn't want to move and leave my friends behind. So instead, my parents said I could live with my Uncle Peter. I lived with him up until the beginning of this year. At the beginning of this year, my parents told me that I would be able to live in our family home by myself and learn to be more independent. Except my parents would still pay for everything I needed really. That's the benefit of having rich parents. So I accepted and moved back into my family home. Then one day, I met this girl at one of my bands gigs. She told me how she had just been kicked out of her home and she didn't have a place to stay. Her name was Layla and I offered her to crash at my house for a few nights. Then eventually, she moved in. We discussed it and it was perfect, she needed a place to stay, I was always lonely in a big house by myself, Layla is 18 and already finished high school so she works full time and can support herself. Ever since, she's lived with me. We actually became really good friends. She's been away on a holiday for the past three weeks so I haven't seen her and she's returning today so id love to go home and welcome her back.

"Layla's back already? I thought she wasn't coming back until next week?" Maddi said confusedly.

"She was but the trip got shortened." I said simply.

"Oh okay. Well, we'll see you after then." Lauren said with a smile.

"Yeah, tell Layla we said hi!" Maddi said.

"Will do. See you in a bit."

...

The drive back to my house was only short, I was thankful there wasn't much traffic for once. Once I arrived at my home I pulled into the driveway and parked. Layla should be home already.

I walked inside and called out her name, immediately grinning when I saw the older girl standing there with a smile on her face.

"Chlo! It's so good to see you!" Layla said, opening her arms, inviting me over to hug her.

"It's good to see you too, Lay. How was New Zealand?"

"There were so many hot guys holy shit." Layla said holding her hand over her heart.

"Home for two minutes and already talking about boys, good to know you haven't changed." I chuckled.

"Of course not! But I really need to shower, I stink. We'll catch up after okay?"

"I'm actually spending the night at Lauren's. I just wanted to duck home and welcome you back." I said.

"Oh yeah, that actually works for me cause I'm totally exhausted and I feel like I'm gonna pass out." Layla laughed.