" Ma, did you check the voicemail " I asked while getting my little brother and myself ready for school.
"Yes Coco, I have three interviews this week"
" Good, that's real good mama" I said sliding my shoes on.
My name is Chanel, nickname Coco. I'm eighteen but way beyond my years, my mother has been on and off drugs since I was fourteen so I've been the women of the house and a mother to my five year old brother Chase. Despite working everything I'm still a honor student and not all some boys face.
" Coco can I have twenty dollars for bus fare"
" yes ma, in my top drawer only take twenty two please"
" Gurl I'm not gone steal yo money"
I laughed softly
I went into the bathroom putting my long thick black hair into a ponytail. After fixing my hair I helped Chase put his coat on then mine.
" Chase you know mommy coming to get you after, right"
" Yes. You have to go to work " he said kinda sad
We walked through the cold Memphis streets hand in hand. We were half way down the block when I heard my best friend call my name.
" I said wait on me Chanel" Shauntelle said with a attitude.
" I told you to hurry up, you didn't see me text your phone "
" No! I forgot to charge it, me and Brac was up all night making movies" she said rotating her hips while sticking her tongue out. I shook my head.
" What about Tone" I asked
" What about him, that's my dude when we together and when we not I hope he do him cause I fasho do me " I couldn't help but laugh. The whole birds of a feather together is a lie because Shauntelle and I are like night and day, we've been friends since seventh grade - best friends- she was getting jumped and I was the only one to jump in to help her"
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Teen FictionChanel Ross hasn't had one of the easiest lives, from tender age 14 she had to become women of the house. Her mother was a drug attic junkie. Chanel looses it all but her best friend Shauntelle has a way to get it all back and more but Chanel finds...
