layla and karina got to the just a house mansion coming inside after goose invited them in, layla coming straight to sab's bedroom opening the door seeing sab talking to cooper on facetime, "boo!"
she said jumping on top of the girl, sab showing layla's face to cooper who smiles, "hey layla," layla smiles waving her hand to cooper, "hey coop," the said boy smiles when sab wraps her arms around layla's waist, "it's already been seven days,"
layla nods her head, "yep.. time flies when we aren't together," cooper chuckles, "hey don't steal my girlfriend, layla," layla playfully smirks, "i won't, don't worry,"
she said wrapping her arm around sab's shoulders, kissing the side of her head, "is anna in her bedroom?" she asked, sab nodding her head, "i think eva, connor, brad and dev are in there too,"
layla nods her head coming away from sab opening the door coming out of the girl's bedroom coming to anna's bedroom at the end of the hall knocking on it seeing karina come beside her, "come in,"
her and karina hear opening the door to anna's bedroom coming around the corner seeing dev squeal coming towards layla who chuckles as brad comes towards his best friend, "you're here!"
layla chuckles in dev's arms looking over her shoulder at anna who half smiles getting off of her bed, "yeah.. seven days fly past," she said to dev, who hugged her tighter.
dev lets go of layla who hugs anna in her arms, her arms coming around anna's waist bringing anna's body closer to hers, "hey," layla said into anna's shoulder smiling, "hey, you're back,"
layla pulls away from anna with a small chuckle, "i'm back, we're back," she said motioning to her and karina, looking down at her iphone seeing oscar and noah messaging her telling her to come to the sway house.
layla clears her throat, "noah and oscar wants me to go and see them at sway," she said to her friends who all frowned, "i'll be back later," she looks down at her apple watch seeing it was 1pm, "the latest i'll be is 12am," she said to her friends coming out of anna's bedroom door.
as goose drives layla to the sway house, dropping the girl off at the front of the locked driveway, "call me or anna when you need to be picked up," layla nods her head smiling at goose looking towards the driveway after getting accepted in.
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she sat on noah's bed watching a movie with her twin brother who kissed his twin sister's head, "i missed you, you know," he said clarifying it to his sister, "mhm, i know,"
she said smiling hearing noah playfully scoff, "hey," he pushes her shoulder making her lean forwards, "be careful, remember i have a photoshoot tomorrow with vogue magazine," she said to noah.
layla looks at her brother, "i missed you too," she said furrowing her eyebrows seeing noah standing up, "come on," he said holding his hand out for his twin sister, "where are we going?"
she asked wanting to know, noah smiles, "the sway boys are gonna go to a soccer field," he said to layla who smiles, "we can teach them, how it's done," he said to layla who smiles, "okay, let's go then.."
layla comes downstairs with noah beside her, jumping onto oscar's back who's hands immediately come to layla's thigh making her smile.
"bestie vibes only," she said looking around the sway boys who were talking, "bestie vibes only," kio smiled at layla who clears her throat getting off of oscar's back walking to her brother's car as this time around she didn't bring her tesla with her.
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layla puts her hand onto her hips looking at the sway boys, as she was in a pair of nike shorts with a soccer top on, over her sports bra.
"oh come on,"
layla steals the soccer ball from kio's feet smirking, slowing her running down knowing the boys aren't good at soccer expect for noah, layla turns back to see josh and kio coming towards her.
she kick flips the ball around the both of them dodging both of them coming to get the soccer ball shooting the soccer ball into the top right hand corner with a smirk.
kio sighed, "okay, how is this fair? you two are both good at soccer," he said looking at his friends who have played soccer basically their whole life, "it's fun,"
layla gets the soccer ball onto her feet doing some soccer tricks, with the sway boys watching in amazement whilst noah smiles at his sister, as she then gets her phone from her shorts recording a tiktok for her spam account.
"how is it being someone's intern, layla?"
josh asked, layla losing her focus from the ball as it comes away from her, finishing her tiktok looking at josh, "it's great, they don't treat me like how a intern is supposed to be treated you know,"
oscar then said, "well, you do have more followers then the three of them combined," layla turned to her best friend furrowing her eyebrows, "huh," the sway boys nod their heads, "that's so true,"
they agreed with what oscar said, making layla look at them with a scoff, "what?" josh looked at layla, "they probably only got you to be their intern because of your following,"
and with that layla was upset at how her friends think that the society las vegas girls only wanted her to be their intern because of her followers, "but—" josh looked at his friend, "it probably is kinda true, i mean do they post videos with you on the house account?"
layla nods her head, "yeah, but just a house do the same with their intern," josh puts his hand to layla's shoulders, "we're not saying it's true or not, we're just saying be careful layla,"
layla moved josh's hand off of her shoulder looking at her twin brother upset with the sway boys and her best friend, "i wanna go home," she said to noah who cleared his throat.
"layla,"
oscar frowned, "we didn't mean anything by it," layla shakes her head, "you know, i thought you guys were okay when i first moved here, but now i know how you guys really feel—" she starts to walk away from them, oscar holding onto his best friend's arm, "wait layla,"
she moves her arm out of his grip, "don't talk to me, just leave me alone," she said tears brimming her eyes, when she turns to oscar, "you knew how excited i was to be wanted by people and not used for something that i am good at or—"
she chokes up feeling her tears come down her face, "layla, i didn't mean it.." she shakes her head at josh and oscar, "you're just like the rest of them, you only want me for things you don't have,"
she looks at him, "people only started following you more after we started hanging out, right?" she asked wanting the answer, "yeah but.." she frowns at oscar's answer, "is that why every time i'm down here, you always hang out with me cause your account not getting enough views?"
she didn't even want to know the answer, walking away from them with her brother beside her who tried to cheer her up, "noah, do you think it's true?"
noah turns to his sister after getting into the driver's seat, "i think what they were saying was kinda true but i don't know, you know them more better than us lay," he said to his sister starting his car up as layla feels more tears fill her eyes looking out of the window.
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"layla?"
karina asked, her eyebrows furrowed seeing the said girl walk straight where everyone was in the kitchen having canes, walking upstairs into the guest bedroom where her and karina's stuff was.
closing the door behind her, her knees buckling making her falling straight to the floor, her knees up to her chest breathing heavily feeling herself start to have a panic attack.
thinking about when she joined society las vegas she didn't have that many followers compared to anna's tiktok account.
she didn't even hear anna and karina knocking on the bedroom door wanting layla to open the door up, "layla?" karina asked wanting to hear her best friend, "is everything okay in there?"
layla looks down to her hand after she goes into her duffel bag getting herself her panic attack medication, swallowing one of them slowly feeling herself start to become more calmer.
"layla," she then hears anna's voice from outside the door, "can you talk to us? what happened?" layla stands up, looking at herself in the bedroom mirror seeing her eyes puffy from all the crying.
she unlocks the bedroom door before feeling anna and karina hug the girl in their arms, pulling back seeing the girl's face puffy and red, "oh layla, what happened?"
karina asked layla who looks at her, gulping, "did you only want me to be your guy's intern because of my following?" layla asked wanting to know the answer, "what?"
karina said, layla clears her throat, "did you only want me to be your guy's intern because of how many followers i have or—" karina frowns hearing layla say that, "layla,"
the girl moved away from karina, "is it true or not?" the girl opened and closed her mouth, anna watching the interaction between them, "who said this?"
karina asked wanting to know who said to her best friend, "oscar and the sway boys, but it doesn't matter, is it true or not?" karina looked at anna then to layla, "if it was true what would you say?"
layla scoffs, "oh wow— you guys done a good job at making me believe that you actually wanted me, needed me with you guys," she said to karina, "you guys are just like everyone, you only want me when you need something or want something—"
"layla, that's not true—"
she shakes her head feeling herself start to get overloaded with angry, "i need to go," karina frowned, "layla, i—"
the said girl closes her eyes not wanting tears to come down her face again, "i just need space," she doesn't look at anna coming out of the guest bedroom downstairs before dev and sab come to her.
"hey layla—"
the two of them stop, seeing their friend with tears streaming down her face, "wait, what happened?" dev asked layla who starts to cry, "everyone always uses me when they need something or want something,"
she shakes her head, "i can't be that person anymore," dev was about to hug layla when layla moves past them coming out of the front door, going down the residence calling the one person who she needed at the moment, "zack, hey.. where are you?"
she asked wiping at her tears, "can you come and pick me up?"
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author's note:
continue reading to see what happens. will layla go back to talk to karina? or will she leave society Las Vegas? stay tuned everyone 😏