My Heart Only Beats For You

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📆: September 13th, 2025
📍: Toni's apartment, Hudson squares, Manhattan NY
🎶: Peaked(Fed up)- RAAHIIM, All Coming Back To Me- Celion Dion

Toni quickly moves around her apartment as she mumbles something to herself, her mind set on finding what she has been looking for.

Her best friend's present.

The brunette is clad in blue ripped jeans with a black t-shirt along with her leather jacket. Her sock-clad feet slam against the wood of her floor while she powers through the hallway of her apartment.

She is on the way to Betty's birthday bash the next neighborhood over, but she can not remember where she left the blonde's birthday gift.

"Think, Toni, think. If I was a twenty-six thousand dollar bracelet, where would I be?" she whispers to herself, playing with the charm bracelet on her wrist.

The same charm bracelet that Cheryl gifted her years ago.

Sighing, she plops down on her couch in defeat. She could always go buy another bracelet for her best friend, but this one was customized to her choice. She engraved Betty's name onto the diamonds to make it more special.

She mentally scolds herself for misplacing it while she tries to defile every memory molecule in her brain to figure out where she placed it. She thinks back to the day she purchased it.

Mikayla had dropped off the keys to her rolls-Royce after taking it to get an oil change, that's when she went out to buy it.

"Oh!" she suddenly jumps up to run into the bathroom. Her fingers grip the door to the medicine cabinet to open it and low and behold, there rests the box to the bracelet. "Thank sweet, Elaine." Toni releases a sigh of relief.

She checks her apple watch adorning her wrist for the time only to find that she has fifteen more minutes until she is picking up Cheryl.

It was the beauty's idea since Toni only lived a few neighborhoods away from her. The brunette informed her about her motorcycle of course, and the redhead insisted that Toni picks her up.

The athlete pulls on her boots before grabbing her helmet, and keys, along with her phone. She pockets Betty's gift as she exits her home, locking the door behind her.

She hears a soft rustling sound behind her and turns to see her neighbor and the guy's kid. Mallory.

The five-year-old's face lights up at the sight of the brunette beauty causing Toni to smile. "Heya Toni!" the girl shouts through her missing teeth.

Toni sometimes babysits Mallory while her father and mother are away at work or have to run a quick errand. Mallory sometimes comes to practice with her as well.

"Hey, Mal. Hey Henry." she smiles at the two of them, tucking her helmet under her arm to retrieve her gloves. "How are you?" she then inquires.

"Good! Daddy took me to the library! I got some books." the smaller girl then holds up the small hello kitty backpack. Toni chuckles slightly at Mallory's adorableness.

"That's awesome, Mal. Maybe the next time I babysit, we can read them, yeah?"

"I'd love that!" her ruby-colored eyes light up. She looks over at her dad who smiles softly. "Daddy, can you and mommy go on a date so Toni can watch me?!"

The two adults laugh at her words. Of course, the man nods gently. "Sure, honey. Maybe tomorrow, okay?" he ruffles her hair before twisting the key into the lock of his apartment door. "Have a nice night, Toni." he bids.

"You too. Bye, Mal." the athlete waves and ambles past them once they're in the apartment.

Toni calls for the elevator and then pulls on her leather gloves. She reaches the ground level where the garage is located. "Hey." the security guard nods at her in greeting, his eyes following her as she treads over to her bike.