or lulu sighing over and over again

It was like living in two separate worlds. On one end, Lulu was starting to get an immense amount of attention in the movie industry —meaning she was being called in for auditions left and right, her performance in « Godly » had gotten her nominations in some of the most prestigious award ceremonies and, for the first time since the beginning of her career, Lulu was seeing it all pay off. For real.

But on the other hand, Lulu was now in charge at home. Meaning she had to pay the bills, do every chores around the house and be there for her little sister ever since their mother had walked right out. And it wasn't easy every day.

Obviously, Zahia was helping around a lot but Lulu had made it clear that she should focus on school and her therapy sessions —too frightened at the idea of something bad happening to her little sister because they had no parents at home anymore.

And Lulu couldn't shake off the idea of not being able to manage everything once school would start again. She knew she was strong enough to make it work but she also knew —deep down in the abyss of denial, that she would probably have to prioritize certain things and say goodbye to others at some point.

Maybe it was selfish but Lulu wasn't ready to face any life changing decisions yet.

She looked at her reflection one last time in the mirror before walking out of the bathroom, all dressed for the New Year's Eve party. Tonight, she didn't want to think about choosing between her family or her own life. She wanted to celebrate making it this far and not losing her mind.

Zahia and Max were laughing at something on their phones when Lulu appeared in the living room. As always, Zahia whistled at her sister's look.

"Well, that's one way to celebrate the new year, sis."

Lulu snorted, "Thanks."

"Yeah, looks amazing," Max added with a soft smile.

Lulu brushed off the compliments with a quick head shake, "So... you guys have a party tonight or you planning on laughing at your phones until tomorrow?"

Max and Zahia shared an equally scared glance, causing Lulu to frown, as the younger sister scratched her throat, "Actually..."

"Oh god, I already hate where this is going, Z."

"Hm... we had a party planned at Lola's but her parents decided to stay at home so..." Zahia started with a shaky voice, "I... kinda told everyone to come here."

Lulu stared at her sister, dumbfounded, "What was that?"

Zahia rose on her feet, a panic expression slowly creeping on her features, "I... it's... I'm sorry I should've told you but I was scared you'd say no and it's only eight people—"

"Including you two?" Lulu interrupted with a cold gaze.

Caught off guard, Zahia looked over at Max before slowly making eye contact with her sister, "No..."

Lulu sighed, scanning the whole room, "Where's the booze?"

Max and Zahia came back five minutes later with enough alcohol for a bachelorette's party. Whenever Lulu thought they were done putting bottles on the kitchen counter, they would magically appear with more in their arms.

She stared at them in disbelief, "Ten people? Seriously?"

"Yes I fucking swear," Zahia said, "Lola, Casey, Penelope, Melo—"

"I don't need the fucking list," Lulu snapped, "Even though I still don't get why you talk to Casey, he's a fucking douche."

Lulu's phone started vibrating uncontrollably in her purse right when she heard Max chuckle at her comment. These were texts from Fezco.

mamas

rue's here

she cant be around

"Fuck," she whispered before snapping her head at the two lovebirds in front of her, "The bedrooms are off limit. So I guess I'll sleepover at Fez's. Meaning, if I see or hear anything suspicious... the party's off and you're both dead."

"Oh my god, thank you so much!" Zahia said as she gave a hug to her sister, "I swear we'll be extra careful. I promise!"

Lulu was about to walk out the house but spun around and grabbed an empty grocery bag, stacking as many alcohol bottles inside, "I'm taking these with me. Y'all won't need that much."

Next thing she knew, she was in the back seat of Fezco's car with Rue, as high as she had probably ever seen her in her whole entire life.

"You're really hot," Rue slurred as she motioned to the outfit she had on, "Damn, you know I've kinda always been in love with ya?"

Lulu looked over at Ashtray through the rear view mirror, as they exchanged an annoyed glance.

The brunette faced Rue, "You're high, shut up now."

Rue lifted both of her hands in the air, "Okay, rejection time! Yo, Fez, you treat her good, alright?"

Lulu bit her lip as she tried her best not to slap her best friend across the head and pulled a cigarette out of her purse. She barely had the time to lit up the stick that Rue had snatched it away from her mouth and was smoking as if her life depended on it.

Lulu sighed in despair and that was when Rue starting singing along the 2Pac track currently playing in the car. She snorted some squashed pills and kept on singing as Ashtray was getting more and more agitated.

"Yo, can you tell her to shut the fuck up?" the kid let out.

"Yeah, Rue, you gotta chill out back there for real," Fezco said calmly, "Me and Ash gotta handle some serious business right now, so."

"Yeah, for sure. No, I can do that," Rue replied, unimpressed, "I can just stay back here. It's real comfy."

Even though she was sitting behind him, Lulu could tell Fezco was tense. So, she slided her hands over his seat and placed them on his shoulders, slightly rubbing him to remind him she was there. And Fezco responded by placing his left hand over his right shoulder, grabbing her hand and giving it a light squeeze before intertwining their fingers.

And Fezco couldn't help but love knowing she was still there for him, even after he had confessed what had happened that night with Mouse and Custer, during winter formal.

They stopped the car in a dark alley, where Lulu recognized Custer who was standing there with a girl she had never seen before. Fezco got out of the car and got into a conversation with Custer but Rue blabbering nonsense made it impossible for Lulu to decipher what they were talking about.

Then, the blonde opened the car door and gestured for Lulu to move so she pushed Rue to the right and found herself standing in the middle as Fezco sat back in the front seat, turning around to look at the three girls.

"Ten, twenty minutes tops, all right?" he said, "Y'all just please stay in the car. No fuckin' funny business."

Lulu nodded sternly as Fezco stared deep down in her eyes for a second before leaning in and placing both of his hands on each side of her face, planting a longing kiss on her lips, as chills covered their bodies.

It was like they couldn't get bored of each other.

Fezco gently pulled away, letting his fingers linger on her flushed skin for a moment before vanishing outside.

"You guys are fucking cute," the blonde said, "I'm Faye."

"Lulu."

"Yo, fam, uh... Rue," she said with a sniff, "How's your New Year's going?"

"What?" Faye asked.

"New Year's," Rue repeated.

"It's fucking New Year's?" Faye asked, confused.

"Well, you're dressed like it," Lulu pointed out.

"I swear my boyfriend doesn't tell me anything."

To kill time, Lulu pulled out her phone as she decided to check Instagram —wondering if Zahia's friends had posted some stories or pictures. She still didn't want to believe only ten people would be showing up. Not after seeing all the alcohol they had bought.

"Um... I don't think... I wouldn't do that here," Rue said, trembling.

"It's just heroin."

Lulu snapped her head to the left, discovering Faye with a needle and a spoon, popping a lighter out of nowhere.

"No, I, I see that. But, maybe, like, I don't know. I just feel like it isn't... the best place to do that."

"Why?"

Lulu frowned, "Are you a fucking idiot? Not in here."

Faye ignored Lulu's comment to look at Rue, "Listen, I fucking know what you are. You're just a fuckin' junkie-ass bitch and you're probably eating that bitch's pussy and that ginger's ass for fuckin' oxys or whatever the fuck you're into."

"Says the addict," Lulu snapped back.

"If I didn't want it so much, I'd plant it in your neck," Faye responded, earning a chuckle from Lulu.

But the brunette didn't expect the girl to lift her leg as she shot the needle inside her thigh.

"Yo, what the fuck are you doing? What, what the fuck?" Rue asked with her eyes wide open, "Jesus, that's your whole fucking crotch."

Faye grimaced, causing Lulu to replicate the same facial expression, still not believing what she was watching.

"Ow, that looks like it hurt, ow," Rue commented painfully.

Lulu was so focused on trying to read Faye's facial expressions slowly drifting from pain to pleasure that she didn't see three men coming their way. But a loud shriek escaped her lips when the car doors were abruptly opened, as she was forcefully grabbed by a man and pulled out of the vehicle.

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, here we gooooo guys! first of all, the love i've been receiving on this story the past two week has been enormous, you guys are CRAZY! i gained like over 70k reads in two weeks like wtffff

and, also, i decided to jump into season 2 straight up! you'll get some more infos about whats going on behind the scenes at lulu's soon enough anyways!

but what did you guys think?? and what are you expecting in the upcoming chapters?? seriously keep feeding me with your comments cause i LIVE for them