Childhood

18

TONI POV:

I walk into the kitchen from the garage after fixing my bike. "Jason." He looks at me. "Where's mom and Sarah?" I ask quietly. "I don't know they went out to do something really girly. Something about their nails." I smile. "I have something for you. Come on." He gets up and we talk into the garage. "What it's just your bike." He say shrugging. I hand him a blue helmet and a leather jacket that matches. No, it's not a serpent jacket I'm not letting him anywhere near those. "You always wanted to ride this." I smile. "Mom isn't home." He smiles. "I'll get it out and we can go for a ride." We get the bike out and Jason hesitantly gets on with my help. "I'm nervous." He whispers. "It's ok bud, we don't have to go if you're not ready." He gets off and thinks for a minute. "It's ok." I whisper. I start the bike and he smiles at the revving of the engine. "Do you want to get on?" He nods, gets on and raps his arm around me. "Ready?" I ask. "Yeah." He says nervously. I kick off and drive out of the driveway. I just take him to Pops, I don't want to take him to far. I help him off and we go to

I take off my helmet and help Jason off the bike. "Come on lets get something to eat." We walk into the house. Cheryl is in her office. "Keep yourself busy." I whisper to Jason. I go into her office. "Cheryl." I whisper. "I hate that bike." I nod. "I know, he just really wanted to go for a ride so I let him." I whisper. She stands up and walks over to me. "He's to young." She whispers. "I didn't let him drive the thing!" I insist. She looks me right in the eyes. "He's my baby, I don't want to get him to get hurt." I hold her cheeks. "Trust me, we were safe." I tell her. "So what? Some people aren't safe on the read and what if someone hit you guys?" I smile sadly. "We're alive." I walk out. I go upstairs to my office and get some work done until I get a call from Veronica. "V. What's up?" I ask closing the door to my office. "I miss Betty." My heart drops. Before everything happened between us, I was the only person she goes to. "We all do." I whisper.