Cheryl and Tre: Goodbye Means Hello

Part 40

It was safe to say that Cheryl screaming in her sleep was enough to deeply concern and slightly terrify Tre, as sleeping peacefully was pretty much out of the question after that. At regular intervals throughout the night, he kept waking up to check on her, and had even had to stroke her arm at some point and calm her down as she'd been mumbling something in her sleep about 'not wanting to' and telling whoever was bothering her in her dream to 'leave her alone'. Tre was deeply concerned as to what was plaguing Cheryl's dreams, but he didn't know if she even wanted to talk about it or anything like that.

When the alarm finally did go off at 7:00am, with Cheryl's favorite Monica song playing, Tre still felt quite tired but obviously woke up anyway while Cheryl simply whimpered to herself before rolling over and turning it off. She hadn't had much of a good sleep anyway, as every dream had consisted of horrible things from her teenage years that she hadn't thought about in the longest time. She yawned and looked over at Tre, who was staring back at her, a soft and caring look in his eyes.

"Morning you; are you okay?" he asked. She nodded, sighing out to herself as she remembered very clearly waking up and bursting into tears at some point in the night.

"I'm sorry about last night; it was just a nightmare." She said. Tre nodded, giving her a smile and stroking some hair behind her ear.

"You don't have to apologize, we all have nightmares at some point, baby," he reassured her before continuing, "Are you sure you're okay?"

"I'll be fine; I just need to go to work and not think about it." She brushed it off as she climbed out of bed. She grabbed her essentials and went off to her en suite, leaving Tre to stare at her as she wandered off. A look of concern was etched across his face, her voice screaming for Jason to stop hurting her in her sleep still ringing in his head. Something wasn't right, and there was more to this than what Cheryl was letting on.

He was definitely staying with her and by her side all day – whether she liked it or not...

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Cheryl was pretty quiet through breakfast, even her mind still thinking back to the nightmares she'd been plagued with throughout her sleep the night before. Her extremely quiet nature was even concerning Garry as the three of them had a light breakfast together, Garry obviously being used to Cheryl childishly joking on or hurling abuse at him or something. When the car horn sounded, Cheryl rushed outside to the car while Garry and Tre got their hoodies on.

"What the hell is going on with her? She usually shouts abuse at me or smacks me across the head on the morning. I practically had a heart attack when she just waved at me and got her coffee and sat down." Garry asked, a concern look etched across his face.

"She had a nightmare last night, and I think she had some throughout the night as I had to calm her down one time after the initial nightmare – but basically, she was just screaming in her sleep about Jason not hurting her or something like that. Literally scared the shit out of me, bro." he explained. Garry's eyes went wide; he knew that Cheryl used to have some crazy nightmares about Jason, but she would never tell him why she was having them. He didn't even really knew if she knew.

"Shit bro; that's crazy," he breathed out as they headed outside, "She used to have nightmares about him but I thought they stopped; I don't even know why she had them – she never told me anyway." He locked the door behind them before they began walking to the car.

"It was just scary because I've never seen her do that, then she started crying – it was crazy, that's why I'm with you guys today, really to keep an eye on her." Tre explained. Garry nodded, clapping him on the back before the two of them finally got into the car. As soon as Tre slipped in, Cheryl cuddled into his side and rest her head on his shoulder, yawning slightly. Tre simply kissed the top of her head as Lee began driving the car out of the gates.