𝐌𝐫𝐬. 𝐌𝐚𝐣𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐲 | Choni

Thirty seven

Cheryl had managed to sleep on her own the night before. Other than not being in Toni’s arms, the morning went much like the day before.

After their breakfast Anton was invited to help out with the reindeer herding for the morning. Cheryl and Toni chose to take the day to explore the forest around them and no one else seemed to mind as Alice and F.P. watched them disappear through the trees brushing hands together.

Toni had a topic on her mind she’d being thinking of since it had occurred to her yesterday. She had racked her brain on a way to bring it up to the Princess next to her. The pair had been walking in silence seemingly lost in their own mind spaces for some time until Toni found the courage to open her mouth, “Cher, there’s something I wanted to talk to you about.”

“Actually, there’s something I’ve been meaning to say since yesterday.” Cheryl looked to the brunette with a lip between her teeth with nervous energy making her wring her hands.

Toni stilled the hands in her own and brought them to a stop in the middle of the woods, “you can say anything to me love.”

Cheryl took a breath before looking into the brown eyes in front of her, “I know we only ever planned to pass through here. But, I’ve been thinking. You have Anton to think of and you both have F.P. here. I even have Alice here, and she’s got no other blood relatives alive in the forest. Why are you nodding at me like that?” Cheryl trailed off seeing the wide smile on the Serpent’s lips and her head nodding enthusiastically.

“Because this was exactly what I wanted to talk with you about!” Toni was almost jumping up and down as she held on to the redhead’s hands, “we are free to be with each other here. It’s like you said yesterday, I never thought that that would ever be possible. Here, in this forest, I can hold your hand and leave a kiss to your cheek. One day I could even marry you; you could be my wife.”

“And you could be mine.” Cheryl felt giddy as the smile grew across her face.

“So we’re staying?”

Cheryl nodded, “if Anton agrees, and I can’t see him not, then yes!”

She let out a squeal as Toni scooped her up in her arms and turned in a complete full circle.

Toni brought Cheryl back down to the ground with a contented sigh, “I could die happy right now.”

“I’d rather you didn’t.” Cheryl caressed her cheeks as she still stood in her arms.

“I still can’t believe we found a way to have each other without compromises. Are you sure you want to do this with me?” Toni found herself searching the redhead’s eyes for any hint of negative feelings.

Cheryl nodded slowly as she spoke, “only two things have ever made sense and felt right to me in my life, you can guess the first one." She placed her palm over Toni’s heart, “but this is the second.” She whispered the last part and pressed her lips to the Serpent’s.

The pair stood in the woods together, lips moving together in their familiar dance, until they had no choice but to release one another. Cheryl took a step back and offered her hand out to the brunette, which she took in seconds and they began their walk through the trees once again.

The couple came to an abrupt stop as they heard falling water and the trees opened up to a large body of water that was continually being fed by a waterfall. They stood in awe, taking in the sheer power of the water as gravity claimed it. It was breath taking and like nothing they’d seen before. Cheryl had seen the waterfall in Riverdale, but really only in passing and never this close up. As they stood on the shoreline Toni shyly turned to the Princess, “do you want to go for a swim?”