Coming from Nothing

Kayla

-As Nate walked into the rec room, he started to hear music playing. There was a small stage to the right of the large rectangular gym. There were people on there dancing, on what looked like a dancing or singing type of a competition. He walked slowly over to the stage as the song “Thriller” by Michael Jackson ended.

Nate: “Hey, what is everyone doing?”

Anthony: “Hiya! I am Anthony, I am the music director here at the center. We are just dancing and karaoke to different songs. You do not have to be good at it to participate, this is all in good fun and to release some dopamine!”

Nate: “haha, yeah I think I will join.”

Kayla: “Hey, I am Kayla, I am next..you wanna do a duet with me?”

Nate: “Uh…I guess…I mean I might not know the song lyrics?”

Kayla: “The lyrics are there on the projector. Just wing it man! Show me what you f*****g got!!!”

-Kayla picks her song and starts to sing, “Be Kind” by Halsey and Marshmellow

Kayla: “Wanna believe, wanna believe, That you don't have a bad bone in your body…

But the bruises on your ego make you go wild, wild, wild, yeah”

Nate: “Wanna believe, wanna believe, That even when you're stone cold, you're sorry…

Tell me why you gotta be so out of your mind, yeah”

Kayla: “I know you're chokin' on your fears, Already told you I'm right here. I will stay by your side every night, I don't know why you hide from the one, And close your eyes to the one

Mess up and lie to the one that you love. When you know you can cry to the one

Always confide in the one, You can be kind to the one that you love…Ah”

Nate: “I know you need, I know you need,The upper hand even when we aren't fighting

'Cause in the past, you had to prepare every time, yeah”

Kayla: “Don't wanna leave, don't wanna leave, But if you're gonna fight then do it for me

I know you're built to love, but broken now, so just try, yeah”

Nate: “I know you're chokin' on your fears,Already told you, I'm right here

I will stay by your side every night”

Kayla: “I know you're chokin' on your fears, Already told you I'm right here. I will stay by your side every night, I don't know why you hide from the one, And close your eyes to the one

Mess up and lie to the one that you love. When you know you can cry to the one

Always confide in the one, You can be kind to the one that you love…Ah”

Nate: “I know it's hard for you, but it's not fair. Going sick in the head tryna get you there

And I know it's hard for you, but it's not fair,It's not fair”

Kayla: “I don't know why you hide from the one, And close your eyes to the one

Mess up and lie to the one that you love, When you know you can cry to the one

Always confide in the one, You can be kind to the one that you love,Ah”

Nate: “When you know you can cry to the one, Always confide in the one

You can be kind to the one that you love, Ah”

Kayla and Nate: ““I don't know why you hide from the one, And close your eyes to the one

Mess up and lie to the one that you love, When you know you can cry to the one

Always confide in the one, You can be kind to the one that you love,Ah”

Kayla: “Wow, you are not bad there kiddo. (chuckles and passes the microphone to someone else)”.

Nate: “Tha…(walks off stage and follows Kayla) Hey, wait a minute…don’t just walk away like that.”

Kayla: “Why? We sang our song and were done.”

Nate: “Well, maybe that was kinda hot of you and I want to get to know you a little more.”

Kayla: “haha, aren’t you like 16? 17 at best?”

Nate: “No, I  am 20…almost 21. Okay?”

Kayla: “Okay, so you’re not a minor but your not quite old enough to legally drink alcohol? I gotcha.”

Nate: “Well you don’t really look that much older there yourself to be shooting down my age.”

Kayla: “Listen, I just don’t wanna catch no f*****g underage minor bullshit charges again, okay?”

Nate: “Well, I am 3 years past that so what gives? How old are you?”

Kayla: “23 and you never even told me your name”

Nate: “Nathan but everyone calls me Nate”

Kayla: “Everyone calls you that? Do you like being called that?”

Nate: “Idk…that’s just what everyone calls me? I don’t care either way”

Kayla: “Kiss me”

Nate: “what????”

Kayla: “Just kidding there, don’t think you have a chance in hell with me.”

Nate: “I never did…I just said I wanted to get to know you. I guess I don’t.”

Kayla: “Good, because I f**k everything and everyone around me up. I am a tornado and you sir are in my f*****g way. (Kayla walks past him and leaves).”

-Nate smiles to himself, shakes his head in awe of what he just experienced. He walks over to the cafeteria to grab lunch where he finds Kayla sitting and reading a book. He grabs his lunch and decides to sit right across from her.

Nate: “Hey, Stranger. I forgot to tell you, I like watching tornadoes. They’re art in the form of a disaster.”

Kayla: “Oh, you think you’re real f*****g cute, dontcha ya? Like that pick-up line is gonna work on me?”

Nate: “(smiles) Ha, well, ha, yeah…”

Kayla: “Whatever. So watcha in this s**t show for?”

Nate: “Heroin. Oxycodones. Anything to numb the pain…basically. You?”

Kayla: “Alcohol mostly. I started taking Xanax and Ecstasy towards the last 5 months before I was forced to come here.”

Nate: “Court appointed? Mine is…and once I get out of this s**t show I will owe the court tons of f*****g money for being a dumbass. That is okay, I will just go back and get me some of the good-good.”

Kayla: “Wow, you’re going through this program and you’re just going to use again? Pathetic. No, I am not court mandated. Well, Kinda. My daughter Serina was taken from me but as long as I finish the program and get a job and an apartment, I can get her back. I am doing this for myself and for her. She is only 2 years old and she need her mom. Not some half-assed foster mom.”

Nate. “Wait, you’re here to really get sober?”

Kayla: “Yeah, what else is the f*****g point? I mean, why waste the money and time if you’re not going to take anything from it. If you’re just planning on going back to shooting up, please leave my f*****g table now.”

Nate: “Harsh much?”

Kayla: “Junkie much?”

Nate: “Alcoholic mother much?”

Kayla: (throws her water on him) “f**k you” (gets up and leaves).

-        Later that night, Nathan was back in his room and he couldn’t stop thinking about Kayla. He walked over and he started to write in his journal…

“ I went to find things I enjoyed and I did, I enjoyed singing. Then I met this woman who I cannot stop thinking about. She was a total b***h and hated it here but she wanted to be here to get better. That is weird to me, because I just want to get the f**k out of here to get back to my high…I am sick of feeling. Then I called her an alcoholic mother because she called me out on my bullshit…and I think I am…sorry?”