Laney

Laney was born in The South, Baton Rouge, and was neighbors with Jazz throughout her life. Because of this, they were both practically friends from the womb.

Laney is also currently working at the plant MoleQlr alongside Sam and Jazz. She lives alone, but also occasionally babysits Kyngston. Both her and Jazz are like sisters and would essentially do almost anything for each other. Laney also has always looked up to Jazz, as Jazz was more of an older sister type to her that she depended on her when times were rough.

Laney finds out that Sam, one of their shared friends from high school, has offered Jazz a job to deal drugs to make more money. Getting caught would ruin Jazz's future as well as Kyngston's, so Laney stands against her taking Sam up on the job. Laney reminisces in the past when they both had dreams of starting up their own salon together, But despite Laney's efforts, Jazz does it anyway, causing both of them to fight with each other and eventually stop speaking due to their difference in opinion.

Still being the loyal friend that she is, despite them not talking, Laney finds a way to attempt to keep Jazz away from selling drugs by asking Sonic for a favor, knowing that his cousin, Hungryman is responsible for drug runs. She asks him to not hurt Jazz, but to just take the drugs from her, knowing it would scare her and she wouldn't have money to re-up. Sonic agrees, as the two of them had a one-night stand in the past and Laney threatens to tell their friends that he lost his virginity to her when they were younger. She also knows Sonic is still in love with her, and is willing to do almost anything for her.

However, Hungryman went missing after the night of the run. Soon, news comes out that his corpse has been discovered. Laney wanted to reach out to Jazz, but she didn't want it to seem suspicious that she knew about Hungryman. Hungryman's best friend, Richie, approaches her and asks questions after Sam told him that Hungryman's last run was on her referral. Laney admits to the setup out of fear, but she insisted that Sheed and Jazz would never ever kill someone. This only makes Richie more suspicious, as Sheed and Jazz's alibi did not match up to her admitting that they were with Hungryman. Angry, Richie pistol whips Laney, leaving behind a black eye on her face.

She then attempts to be there for Sonic when he mourns his cousin's death. Sonic fights with her about his suspicions regarding Jazz and Sheed, but she defends them, despite Jazz cutting her off, which he finds ironic. But despite Jazz still not talking to Laney, Laney has gotten over it already and just wants to be there for her friend.

Laney reaches out to Sonic again and attempts to apologize. She understands that Hungryman was honestly his only family and that was gone. And despite Hungryman being the murderer he was, that's all Sonic had. He tells her it's okay and that it's not her fault.

When Sam asks for his favor from Jazz and Sheed which led to a shootout, Jazz was caught in the crossfire. Because Laney's contact was deleted from Jazz's phone but was still in the "Co-workers" group, Sheed did not know who was arriving when the random number replied that they were on their way to help when he reached out for help via a voice memo. Laney rushes over to help her, knowing that the hospitals would be all filled up, as she has done nursing classes in the past.

She nurses Jazz back to health, surprised that the shot didn't kill her because of what the bullet tore through. crying and sorry for everything she's done. She tells herself that once Jazz wakes up, she will tell her the truth.

Laney stays with Jazz in the house, praying for her recovery, unaware that Sonic is on his way to claim his own justice for Hungryman.