Layla goes to the restaurant to check on Coco, aunt Zoe and grandma Stella. Layla tells Zoe that she has been thinking of buying a small family car for easy movement and transportation especially for grandma Stella and Coco.
" If the money you're going to use to buy a car will be stolen then we don't need it!" Grandma Coco scolds Layla while granny Stella and Zoe chuckle at this grandma and granddaughter argument.
Zoe then asks Layla to join them in the kitchen but she comes up with an excuse not to join them,
" Hold on aunt...uh.. I have some work to do so I'm leaving but I promise that I'll help next time bye!" She quickly runs out of the restaurant.
Before she goes to her tunnel, Layla decides to call Alexander to find out where he is and she finds out he's available,
" It's good that you called on time Layla...I have some very good news for you so come soon I'll be at the coffee shop"
Layla decides to go and see Jade at her work place. When she gets there,she is amazed by what she sees. Jade's workplace is so huge and clean. As Layla is busy walking around admiring the place not paying attention to where she's going, Layla bumps into her cousin,
" Oh hey couz! I didn't know you had such a big and wonderful work place. Had I known it was this beautiful I would be coming to visit you everyday so as to get free food!" Layla imagines.
Jade laughs at her cousins wild imagination and asks her how the meeting with the bully. Layla doesn't hold anything back so she tells her cousin the whole truth,
" Look couz,I tried okay I talked to him politely in a nice way but then he pushed me to wall so I beat him up" She explains.
When she hears this,Jade starts to panic,
" What? Are you crazy? Because of your foolish act you'll probably get Nicole into trouble with the school authorities and then when grandma Coco finds out...well you know what next"
Layla goes silent for a while and thinks about what Coco will do to her, " Coco will either hit me with a leather belt or chase me out of the house" Layla thinks to herself.
She soon snaps out of her thoughts and asks Jade for some treats. Despite being angry at Layla's behavior she gives her cousin some chocolate cookies and then asks her to pay. Layla is surprised by this behavior, " Are you kidding me right now? Fine, I'll pay. But let me tell you that I'm planning on buying a car and you'll pay for the lifts" Layla walks out feeling slightly mad.
When her cousin walks out of the cafe,Jade worries for and what Coco might do when she finds out about her deed. Layla gets to a cafe where she meets up with Alex. When she settles down, Alexander starts to talk to her about a fighting opportunity but he notices that Layla is worried about something,
" Excuse me Tigress,what's bothering you"
Layla tells Alex all that happened in the morning and what Jade told her, " You know I think she might be right, granny will kill me today" She concludes.
Instead of sticking to the conversation, Alexander starts to ask about Jade, " By the way how is the love of my life uh?"
" First of all she's not the love of your life okay? Now tell me why you called me here or beat you up right here!" Layla gets angry.
Alexander calms her down quickly and tells her there's a fighting opportunity in a certain tavern and there's lots of money that's a bet. Layla's mood suddenly lightens up and she agrees to do so. Nicole arrives at the restaurant and Zoe questions her. Nicole tells Coco what made the Principal send her back home and request for her guardians presence. Coco gets so upset but she controls her anger. She calls Layla asking her to get home before 7pm. Before, Layla could say or ask anything,Coco ends the call making Layla wonder if she found out about the fight. At her knocking off time,Jade calls Layla and so she can go and pick her up. Layla does just that. When the girls get home and enter the house,there is this awkward silence and it worries them both. Layla tries to lighten Coco's mood by telling her about the fight,
" Why did you ask me to be home by 7 grandma? Am sorry but I have a fight tonight so I can't afford losing so much money"
Coco walks towards Layla and at this moment and time, Layla freezes,her heart beat increases and she is having mixed thoughts when she sees that angry expression on her granny's face.
Smack! Goes the slap on Layla's face. Layla didn't see that one coming. She tilts her head to one side with her hand covering her slapped cheek. The family is astonished by this surprise smack.
" Why are you so disobedient Layla! Every single time you make me angry! Because of your stupid actions Nicole has been given a suspension!" Coco explains to Layla the effects of her actions.
" I don't blame you Layla I blame myself for for being so soft on you. You can't get a job you're useless. You act like a man when you're a lady! You'll never make me proud because you care about the streets more than you do about your family you good for nothing!" Coco starts to hit Layla with a belt all of her body but Layla stands still with her eyes closed.
" Why do you trouble me you foolish girl? At least for once try to act like your cousins and not like a street kid! Get a job and make this family proud just for once and stop being useless and good for nothing! You'll never achieve anything in life because you're cursed for all the bad things you do everyday!" Coco continues to hit her granddaughter until Stella intervenes and she stops. Coco stops hitting Layla but throws her out of the house,
" You care about your thug life and ego more than this family's reputation and betterment of your cousins so leave this house and don't come back or I'll get you arrested! Got that?" Coco drags Layla to the doorstep and locks her outside.
Layla doesn't cry after receiving a beating or after been thrown out of the house but instead she is angered.