Pen Pals ||Shelby and Toni||

Chapter 1: New School

(Happy anniversary!!!) Shelby sends a morning message to Toni.

(Anniversary?) Toni replys.

(We've been texting for four years today) Shelby says feeling a little sad Toni doesn't remember.

(Wow that's pretty long High school relationships have nothing on us) Shelby laughs at this. Although her and Andrew have been together for six years now.

(Yup have a good day today got to go Andrews waiting outside.)

Shelby hurries out the door to Andrews blue pick up truck. They usually wouldn't be going in the same car. Shelby likes to drive herself in the morning to get focused and start her day but her mom needed to use her car today because her father is going to work early. Shelby goes to school early every day because she leads the morning announcements. She has for the 3 years she's been in high school.

"Hey baby" Andrew says as she hops into the passenger seat. "Hi good morning" she's leans over and give him a peck on the cheek. They go to school in silence. Neither of them have been very talkative when it came to each other.

Once they arrive at school she's greeted by Dot and Fatin. Dot has been her best friend since little league soccer and Fatin moved next door to dot two years ago.

"Hey Shelby how's it hanging." Dot says and goes to give her a hug. Shelby rolls her eyes and hugs her back. "Why are you to here so early today?" Shelby says a little confused. "Well I came here to see the football players practice and dot tagged along" Fatin says. "We got some breakfast together and I came because you needed a ride." Dot says while looking at Fatin who is laughing. "Yep I did and your my chauffeur." Fatin teases. "Just because I drive you once. You wouldn't be able to drive if your life depended on it." Dot throws back. "Stop flirting come on I need to make sure everyone's got there lines." Shelby grabs their wrist waving bye to Andrew who went off to talk to his friends and isn't even paying attention.

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Toni woke up sore from moving boxes yesterday. Moving was so much harder with so much stuff. She has moved a lot of times but she only had so much. When Martha and her family said they would be moving she didn't think it would be this hard.Today she was going to her new school. Something she would be dreading if Martha wasn't going to be there with her.

Martha is like a sister; For a very long time it had just been Toni all alone but when she got put with her last foster family she met Martha at school. They had been friends for 2 years before she finally found out Toni was being beaten by her foster mom. When the situation got really bad Martha's parents took Toni in as there own. They were her chosen family. The people she trusted the most.

"Morning sleepy head." Martha peers through the door looking at Toni amused. "Hey you would be the same way if you did all that heavy lifting." Martha rolls her eyes and goes to the bathroom to get ready. Toni looks at her phone smiling when seeing a text from Shelby but looking at the time before reading it. 6:30 perfect school starts in a hour.

She text Shelby back she's talking about how long it's been since they met which Toni remember but pretends not to. Toni gets up from her bed. She's glad to finally have a room to herself. She doesn't want to sound ungrateful but Marty's snoring was really out of control.

Pulling on a hoodie over her basket ball jersey and pulling in some sweatpants she goes to the bathroom with Martha to brush her teeth and hair. She then walks out into the living room which is more of a empty mess of boxes with a couch in the middle right now.

"Good morning girls" Martha's mom greets. Kissing Martha and Toni on the head. Her dad is digging into some eggs and toast. "Come sit at our makeshift table and eat some breakfast." Martha laughs at her father eating using boxes as a table and a lawn chair. "That table is taking a long time to get here." He says to his wife when she brings him coffee.

Toni eats fast ready to get to school already. She thinks it won't be to bad. A fresh new start with people who don't know about her parents leaving her or her angry outburst or Reagan behind her.

Once Martha is finally done eating she drives both of them to there new school.
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Hi guys! This is my first ever fic so I'm testing the waters. I do want honest constructive criticism. I hope you enjoy this first chapter. Some things have changed from the description of the fic but hopefully I can change the description still. I'll be seeing how people like this if they really do I'll set a schedule to uploads if not I'll probably just update whenever so let me know if you like it!!