Friend bout Jesus

bills and new beginnings

My mother had finally left. She went to visit a friend who was sick. This was my chance! I couldn't wait....
My sister's were all sleep. I arrived at my mom's room.
Nothing was there.....
I remember there was this bright white envelope in her hand when I saw her crying. THE DRAWERS!! I immediately thought to myself! My mother always puts important mails and paper in her drawer. I opened the big drawer on the left and wasn't prepared for what I saw......

I opened the envelope and saw a whole bunch of bills. ALL of them said OVERDUE!Then there was a very strict message at the end which stated **you have three more days to pay the bills or else you will be removed from this property or as we prefer premises.**
I couldn't believe it. Our brand new apartment. Only four days to pay up. How could this happen? We already don't have enough money. I had to help out. I got my butt off my mother's bed. Rushed to fix my sister's macaroni for dinner. And went straight to work.
"It's not your shift." Said my manager.
"Well today it is. Please let me work, please." I pleaded with tears coming out of my eyes.

"Okay. Since your working night shift today I'll x5 your payment." Said the manager.

I usually only get $4 an hour. And I worked for 7 hours. I got  $140 today which was amazing and was a huge deal. But yet that still wasn't enough. My work had closed. There was only one decision left.....
Selling my sisters car. I had to it was my only option. She cherished her car so much but not as much as I cherished it. It was gonna be a sad thing to do but at the end of the day that car is temporary and my family is more important.

"Hey beautiful sister!!" I said nervously
"Hey sis." She said poorly.
"You know? Don't you." I stated.
"The bill...yeah." she said.
"About that....let's sell your car. We have to sis. I know its gonna be hard but think about our sister's and mom." I said.
"WOW! Great idea! I never thought of selling my car. I don't care about a car right now. Yall are my family and yall gotta be straight." She stated with much hope.

We went on instagram and texted my friend back in Chicago who is a famous tiktok influencer. She would get THOUSANDS of likes on her post. This would be the perfect opportunity to sell our car. We told her about the situation. And she donated $1,000. And agreed to sharing our car on her page. We took pretty pictures of the car and sent it to my friend. She posted it! And in 8 minutes we had a buyer!!

He was eighteen years old. And lived in the new york area which was perfect!! We agreed to meet  tommorow at times Square at a local McDonald's. My older sister and I decided to get our rest for tonight. My mom was finally back from visiting her friend. She went on her bed looking at the envelope and started crying. I saw my mom hugged her and said "don't worry mama, it's gone get payed. I love you."
"What do you mean kayla? Get paid? Girl what you talking bout? Love you too baby but what do you mean?". She said
I smirked and rushed at the room.

Next day 3pm

It was finally time to sell our car. We arrived at times Square were it was so busy. We met at the local McDonald's and got coffee. Then went back to the parking lot where we met the guy. "He's fine!!" Said my older sister. "To bad I'm 27." She said.
"Lil sis he is around your age..only one year aparttt." She teased me.
"Girl stop." I said laughing.
He was lightskin and tall.
"Dang this car fye but pink ain't my color shawty." Said the boy.
"Well you can dye it you know lol."
"You speak properly huh lol." He said.
"How else you want me to talk? Unproperly??" I stated.
"Hmm never mind lol." He said smirking.
I was mad. What's wrong with talking properly in New York. I don't use slang all the time but come in. I'm great in English language arts by the way. So probably just an effect.
"How much this car." He asked.
"40,000." Stated my sister.
"40,000 stacked." He said.
He went to the trunk of his car. And had 40,000 in CASH!

"DANGGG! how you got 40,000 like that?? And in cash?? What you do man! I'm kinda worried lol." Said my sister.

"Dang why you playing with me like that lol. I can't be a successful youtuber? Yall women always hating on man bro." He said laughing

"Sorry man, just making sure. Its new york fool lol." Stated my sister.

"Nah you good I don't blame you." The buyer stated.

"Thank you so much for buying this car!! It's a huge deal!!" I said with tears and hugged him.

"Oh wow I mean of course." He said while hugging me.

"Yall some cool people. Wanna hang some time?" He said.

"Sure!" We both stated.

We gave him our numbers. His mom came to drive the other car and we got a Uber back home. Wow I just couldn't believe it 40,000!! My mom probably don't ever have to worry about paying bills lol. We arrived home safe and sound. I spent a minute thanking God.

Me and my older sister rushed to our mom's room. "Mom here is $40,000 plus $1,000 plus $180. It's for the bills..." I said.

"Girls....yall did this all for me. No way...wow!! Where did yall get all this money! How! I don't care where you got it right now thank youu!!" My mother said

"Also how did you know about this makayla?"

"Your welcome mom. We got this from work, donations, and we sold mari's car. Mom I knew something wasn't right so I went to the room I'm sorry." I said.

"At this point sweeties. It doesn't matter. Thank you guys so much yall dont know how much this is going to help. I can finally take a breath. Jeez Thank you LORD for everything." Said my mom.

"Thanking him through the good and bad!!" I stated.
"Of course mom. We'll get going." Said my older sister.

"WAIT! Call your sisters. We need to have a family meeting." Said my mom.

"Family meeting?! We NEVER had a family meeting. What's wrong this time? Why does she want a family meeting?" I said to myself.

Me and mari called all of our sister's. There we all rushed back into our mother's room. Waiting for what she had to say.

"Me and your dad have came to the decision to get back together again. He hasn't been doing well and so haven't we. But this money that you guys have can change the both of our lives. And it's best to have it together. So I'm going to forgive him for his past mistakes. I bought plane tickets and he's coming to New York today." Stated my mom with tears of joy.

"no way mom!! Daddy is coming back!! Yay!! And yall are together again! Yasssss. I knew yall were meant to be!!" Shouted teetee.

My sister's were so happy! Squealing and jumping around the room! Making stuff for our parents. And so much more. Me on the other hands was confused. My MOM and DAD are back together? They always faught when we were little. I was just so nervous. But to see my parents together again meant everything to me I finally had the two of them. So I hoped for the best and waited patiently for my dad to come with mixed emotions!

**KNOCK KNOCK**