Shelby’s mother, Karly Dickinson, got pregnant at 17 with a beautiful baby girl. When Karly discovered she was pregnant, she was no longer dating Shelby’s dad, Ernie Chaission. They dated for only a few months. It was just a high school fling at least that’s what Ernie thought. When Ernie found out about Karly being pregnant he did not believe it. He even made accusations towards Karly saying she was sleeping around and just trying to pin the baby on him. He was young and irresponsible. Ernie didn’t want anything to …show more content…
He wasn’t ready to be a father and raise a child yet. Maybe he was still just a kid himself.” When Shelby’s family moved back to Louisiana, Shelby realized the lifestyle for teenage children was way different in Louisiana than Oklahoma. She started attending South Terrebonne High as a freshman. Shelby’s first impression was these are some bad kids. It was a lot different then what she was used to but she eventually started making friends. Shelby stated, “I didn’t choose the best group of people to hang out with. A lot of my friends were whores and did a lot of drugs. I also hung out with a lot of boys who were always up to no good.” She started liking this guy who was a year older then her named Keith Meyers. Shelby eventually fell in love with him. He was no good from the day she met him. He always did drugs and was in trouble a lot at school. He influenced Shelby to start smoking marijuana and skipping school. Shelby’s mother started noticing Shelby was forming some bad habits and was hanging out with the wrong kind of people. Karly started being stricter on Shelby and it caused their relationship to go downhill. Shelby now could only hangout with certain people and couldn’t go sleep places on the weekends. Shelby felt trapped and started rebelling against her mother’s