Cupid's Crooked Bow | COMPLETE

Chapter | 04

Wasted hard
When you left me, you left me with no choice
I'm looking for a boy to fill this empty void
Kiss the old me goodbye she's dead and gone
(Dead and gone, oh)
Wasted hard
You took the the last bit of love I've ever had
Took a good girl and you turned me oh so bad
Kiss the old me goodbye she's dead and gone
(Dead and gone, oh)

All Hands On Deck- Tinashe

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Tonaya stumbled into the house with the help of Chris and August while Willow followed with Tonaya's clutch bag and one of her shoes. Her mission was accomplished: Tonaya was out of it. While some people may have questioned her for getting drunk over her emotions, Willow knew that this was exactly what her best friend needed.

"I got her." Chris said, now lifting Tonaya into his arms as she squealed and giggled.

"You sure?" Willow checked.

"Yeah, just help me open the doors so I can get her to bed."

Willow started off with the doors that led to the back patio then she hurried across to unlock the two french doors of the cottage and Chris followed with an intoxicated Tonaya who was speaking in riddles.

"You know where the bedroom is, right?" Willow asked Chris as he walked into the cottage.

"Yeah." Chris turned left and made it right to the bedroom where some of Tonaya's belongings were on the bed.

He placed her on the bed as gently as he could before getting her shoe off her foot. Willow watched from the door, feeling sorry for Tonaya.

"I'm not feeling well." Tonaya grumbled as she ran her hand over her face.

"What's wrong?" Chris asked her.

"I'm gon--" she gagged and sat up, "I need to throw up."

"Ooh, not on my white linen." Willow went to open the bathroom door while Chris helped Tonaya off the bed and to the bathroom. He would've liked to be by her side at that point in time but Tonaya slammed the door in his face, locked it, and sat in front of the toilet, waiting for the alcohol to bring itself up the pipe it had traveled down.

Willow and Chris listened as Tonaya threw up and Willow could see the guilt written all over Chris' face as he went to sit back down on the bed.

"Don't beat yourself up, Chris." Willow told him. "She's bottled up a lot. This has nothing to do with you."

"You know that's not 100% correct. She hates me."

"Yeah but, if she wanted to drink herself to sleep over what you and her went through, she'd have done that ages ago. This is about Rakim."

"She took it hard, huh?"

"The worst." Willow frowned.

The bathroom door opened and Tonaya stepped out looking real bad. Without a care, she crawled back into bed and buried herself beneath the covers.