Choni One Shots

It's Like My Golden Ticket

Here's a short one shot for you all. At least short for me. It's just short of 3k words.

As a little back story, Cheryl lives with Nana Rose and her parents died she was little...or something. Idk...she lives with Nana and her parents aren't around. Who knows why? Not me CHONISTANN lol

Alsoooo this is very loosely based off the song 'Johnny Run Away' by Tones and I which I've posted at the top.

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Cheryl was eight years old when her Nana Rose took her to Triangle Park, a few blocks from their house. She was pushed on the swings for a while before she decided she wanted to play on the jungle gym while her Nana sat on a bench, reading a book. Cheryl climbed across the monkey bars and went down the slides multiples times. She even walked up them and slid down a few times along the way.

The young redhead climbed onto the top of the tube slide, sitting down. It was the highest part of the jungle gym she could find to look around at the park, finding kids playing with other kids and kids laughing with their parents. She wished she had someone to play with. Her Nana could only play for so long before she started to get tired and her muscles ached.

Cheryl wasn't sure how long she was sitting there when she heard a beautiful voice from behind her. "Hey, what's your name?"

She turned around to find a girl who looked close to her age, with dark curly hair and dark skin. "Cheryl. What's your name?"

The other girl smiled at her, showing the dimple on her left cheek. "My name's Toni. Do you want to play with me?"

Cheryl quickly nodded her head, excited to have someone to play with. She hopped down from the slide and the girls decided to run around, playing tag. They did this for quite a few minutes, until they were both out of breath.

They both stopped, hunched over trying to catch their breaths. "Do you want to color with me? I think my cousin brought some juice." Toni offered.

"Your cousin?" Cheryl wondered why Toni's cousin wasn't playing with them.

"Yeah, she's over there." Toni pointed to an older girl sitting at a table with headphones on. "She's supposed to be babysitting me."

Cheryl nodded her head slowly, "Um, I just need to ask my Nana if it's okay. You can come with me." The redhead held out her hand for her new friend to take as they walked over to Nana, who was engulfed in her mystery book. "Nana. This is Toni. Can I go color with her? We'll just be right over there, with her cousin." Cheryl pointed to the table that Toni had previously pointed to.

"That's fine, dear. I'll come get you when we need to leave." Nana told her with a kind smile. "And it's nice to meet you, Toni."

"You too, ma'am." The tanned girl politely responded. The two girls turned around, still hand in hand, and ran towards Toni's cousin.

The older girl looked up from what Cheryl could see was a sketchbook, as she slid her headphones off. "Hey, Tone's. Who's your friend?"

"This is Cheryl. We wanted to color. Did you bring juice today?" Toni asked her cousin as they both sat down across from her.

"Don't I always?" She grinned, pulling two juice boxes from her bag, along with some chips. "It's nice to meet you, Cheryl. My name's Jane. Or Janey. Whichever you prefer."

"Like in Tarzan?!"

Jane let out a laugh. "Yeah, like in Tarzan." She grabbed her bag again, searching for Toni's coloring books and crayons. "Here ya go."