It's always been you (Shelby and Toni story)

Part 15

Toni pov

Me and mom have been very close lately, it's been like 1 and a half months and this the longest she's been here since her addiction

Maybe she's sticking to her promise

I pulled my bag out the closet and stuck a little money in there than putting it back in it's rightful place, I've been saving up for credit recovery, right now I've got $350 I'm almost at $400 dollars

I walked to the living room to see my mom sitting down watching tv

"Okay mom I'm finna head over to Shelby's for this project we have to do" I spoke

"Okay baby" she spoke smiling

I opened the door to walk out

"Be careful walking there, and don't walk back in the dark if it's dark when you're leaving tell her to bring you" my mom spoke

I nodded before walking out

Ian gone lie I had mixed feelings about her telling me what to do because she wasn't here for most of my life and now she came back and tryna act like a good mother and tryna tell me what to do, but and again it feels nice to have a mother who cares about you and tell you what to do

I walked to Shelby house, which was a fat walk

After I pay for these recovery classes ima start saving up for a car I thought to myself

Once I finally reached Shelby house I knocked on the door

Seconds later Shelby came to the door

"Shalifoe come in" she spoke causing me to do as she said

"Mom, dad this is Toni Shalifoe" Shelby spoke introducing me

"Hey Mr. and Ms. Goodkind" I spoke

"Hey how are you?" Ms. Goodkind asked

"Good, and what about yourself?" I asked

"I'm doing fine, thanks for asking". She responded

"Okay guys me and Toni going to go ahead and start on this project" Shelby spoke pulling my hand

"Okay may the good Lord be with y'all" Mr. Goodkind spoke

"Always" Shelby responded

We got into her room and she closed the door behind her

I took a seat on the floor causing her to do the same beside me

"Okay what do you want to do for this project? we could either make a book, make a song, do a slide presentation or do an drawing" Shelby spoke

"Let's do a song, how about I rap and you can sing" I responded

"You do know we have to present our project in front of the class?" She asked

"Okay you sing in front of 1000s of people all the time at your pageants and I play basketball in front of 100s of people, I think we can manage to do a song in front of like 24 people" I responded causing her to chuckle

"You're right" she spoke

After about 30 minutes we finally came up the a song for history class, and we like it

We played around singing it to see if it sounded good

"That was awesome" Shelby said after we finished the song

"I maybe had something to do with that" I said popping my imagery collar

"Please, I came up with most of the rhymes" she spoke