Layla Sorabella

**Layla Sorabella** is a side character in Season 1 and has yet to make another appearance. She is the mother of Delilah Sorabella.

## Biographical Information

### Age

* 43 (Season 1)
* 44 (Season 2)

### Occupation

* Dentist
* Hygienist (former)
* Secretary (former)

## Biography

### Early life

Layla was born to a rather ordinary family who were decently well off and had one older brother. The grades she had wasn't anything stellar by any means at first nor were her parents of anything note worthy. Most of her life was spent waiting for something spectacular to happen. When she was 16 and her brother was 18, he left to join the military which left her with her parents. At that time it had been the most exciting thing that happened in her life. She felt like she had something to fill so she joined the schools student council. It provided something special for her to do as school seemed to pass her by. Once she graduated High School was when she began working as a secretary for a dentist office. During that time, it made her realize what she had wanted to do so she went to school to become a hygienist with her bachelor's towards dentistry.

Once she completed that, she moved onto the next part of her school. Working diligently towards her goal as it wasn't until half way through dental school that her parents informed her that they had arranged her to marry a boy a bit younger then her. A boy who was from a wealthy family that could take care of her but she had insisted that she was going to continue school and working. The arranged marriage didn't bother her as long as she could work. Truth be told, she had been pretty awful at picking out boyfriends and most of the time she wasn't really interested in relationships. Whether she ended up married or peacefully alone for the rest of her life didn't really matter at the end of the day.

When she met Nathan, he wasn't anything spectacular or the kind of boy that left her reeling. For the most part he seemed rather average and a rather boring type of person. That was what it seemed like on surface level. Their first meeting had been awkward as well as their time after. Due to their conflicting schedules, they didn't really get to spend too much time together. During their wedding was the most time they spent together in one sitting as most of their times meeting previously had been brief. When they went on honeymoon, it had proven to be more awkward as the two struggled to find something to talk about. Nathan had been in the process of taking over his families hotel business which is something he seemed mostly into or at least good at and occasionally he went to parties. Layla rarely went to parties as she focused primarily on work and school in the line of dentistry.

During one of the nights where Layla did what wives did, she found herself pregnant afterwards. It hadn't been something intentional nor had it ever been something they talked about. Pregnancy had never came up in conversation between the two albeit Layla had found that odd. She had figured that he would have wanted a son who could take his place once he grew old enough to retire but it never seemed to be a topic for him. When she went to him to share what she thought was good news, she was met with an unhappy reaction. Immediately he had gotten very upset and almost agitated. Restlessly he had paced back and forth in their bedroom as Layla had sat there confused until he turned to her to dare utter the words he did. Those words had been abort it which had sent her reeling so hard that she slapped him across the face.

It had led into an ongoing argument where it resulted in her refusal to abort her child. Whether that meant that he would divorce her or not didn't matter to her because she would not give up this child growing in her. This had led to him begrudgingly accept it. Divorce papers never came to her and she was pleased at this as she felt she had over come their first argument in their marriage. Nine months came and went where she was carrying this child that she had found herself growing to love. Once she gave birth to a baby girl, it was settled. This little girl had become a huge part of her life in such short moments. They named her Delilah Sorabella and she wanted another child but knew it would not be what her husband had wanted. Delilah was already more kids then he had wanted, after all.

Being a mother had been something that she enjoyed a lot more than she expected. There were a lot of little rewards that she had once laughed at people for calling rewards. Things like watching Delilah take her first steps, say her first words, have her first day of school, moving on to middle school, entering high school, watching her daughter fall in love, and graduating high school as well as all the things in the middle. Nathan remained cautiously distant but Layla threw herself into it. Being a parent and a wife had been two things she never cared about but now it meant a lot to her. Of course she had kept her job as it had been the one thing she refused to give up.

When Sam Blackmore had went missing, Layla knew he had been apart of her daughters friend group so she was worried. While she might not know how close they were, they hung around occasionally. Checking up on her was the least that she could do as a mother. College time came though and without a second thought was when she watched her daughter head off to school. During the time without her daughter hadn't been too awful as it meant that her parents went to dinner as well as other dates and she just put more time in the dentistry office that she worked at. When summers would come, she'd take her daughter on shopping sprees and spend however much time Delilah wanted together.

### Season 1

Layla had noticed that her daughter was spending a particular amount of time with her friends but she hadn't thought too much of it. They were important to her daughter and she knew that; even in the time that they didn't talk. That summer was the summer that Layla simply decide to take more hours at work again as she focused on that. Life resumed as normal like Delilah had still been at College other then the passing moments that they saw each other. It wasn't until she got the phone call from the hospital that had left her breathless and realize her mistake of just letting it be. Apparently her daughter had been shot by one of her friends in a misfire from a gun during the finding of Sam.

Arriving at the hospital had meant she was greeted with the worst of news; it had hit a vital point in her. At that point she was on life support and it wasn't sure if the surgery would help. Her husband had already knew though as he had apparently spoken to the doctor on the phone. Not just that but he had also already decided that the best option would be to take her off of life support and see if she can pull through it on her own. Numb at those words, her husband stopped her before they entered to see all of their friends. A long conversation was had in which Nathan explained why he thought this was the best move to go through. It had all been medical jumbo to Layla even if she knew some of the words meaning. Putting on her best face, she went in to face Delilah's friends who had all been waiting. Doing her best to not show the anger and only the sadness that came with it.

Once it was over, she apologized to her daughter for not being the best mother that she could have been. A mess of tears in that one moment before they left. The two of them driving home as she vowed to do her best to never see any of those kids again. It was something she didn't think she could stomach or handle again. Unsure to what happened exactly and truth be told, she wasn't sure she wanted to know. Some things had hurt far too much. Some things were better to scab over so that you could forget about it.

### Season 2

Of course, she couldn't help herself from attending Mason's trial to see out his sentencing. Making sure that she wore clothes that covered her up as she sat in the back. Watching them go through the trial and his sentencing as she hoped that it would've helped her feel even a least bit better. It hadn't though and she left as silently as she showed up. The funeral had been a closed casket one as per the order of her husband and then the following years began. Time seemed to be like an illusion as Layla has spent most of her time working and navigating grief. She does her best to avoid all of Delilah's friends. When she had read the book that came out about it, it only fostered that anger she had more.