Sensational~Choni~

32. {I Need Her}

Cheryl-

I woke up with a banging pain in my head. I slowly opened my eyes and sat up quickly when I didn't realize where I was. It wasn't an unfamiliar place... just a place I haven't been in a while. I rubbed my temple and slowly got up from the couch. Why was I at Veronica's? I thought for a minute. Then a small bit hit me.

Flashback
School just let out and I was walking to the parking lot. I was just gonna go straight home to Toni... I felt bad about earlier because of how I acted. She didn't deserve that and I mean I was the one to promise her it was okay to go slow. Just sometimes I crave her, I crave her more than I should. And when I have those feelings and she pulls away I feel hurt. I feel as if she doesn't want me in that way. I know that's not it, but in those moments it's hard to tell.

I almost made it to my car when I heard a familiar voice calling out to me... it was familiar but I haven't heard it in such a long time. Other than at school.

"Cheryl?" Was all the said. I snapped my head around to see the raven-haired girl walking towards me.

I rolled my eyes and I just stood there. "Yes, Veronica?" I say with attitude.

"So I get that you're still mad at me. I get it, but we were such good friends, isn't it time to move on?" She looks down at her shoes.

"It's kinda hard to Veronica. You hurt me, my girlfriend, my relationship. And you never made it easy for us to 'move on'. You really can't blame me for not wanting to."

"No. I know. I just miss you, Cheryl, In a friend way." She corrected herself.

"You'll get over it eventually." I rolled my eyes and then awkward silence filled over.

We just stood there and neither of us said anything... I mean what could we say. But then I was just about to walk away, and of course, she had to speak up before I could leave.

"I found this the other day." She says reaching into a pocket of her book bag.

I gave her a confused look until she pulled out a picture. She handed me it and I took a deep look at it. It was a picture of me, her, and Betty.. a somewhat younger version of us. I knew exactly when this was. It was her birthday party a while back.

"This was taken at your birthday," I say as I stared at the picture.

"Just before an almost tragedy happened" she laughed softly.

"Oh yeah! You almost burned your hair off 'cause of the candle from your cake." I join in with her laughter.

"I miss those times. Times where there was zero drama, and where kids were just kids." She slid the comment in there.

"Those days were somewhat easier... can't disagree with you there." A half smile formed on my face.

"Things can still be easy. We just have to give another shot at friendship." She sighed.

"It's not that simple... but," I say meeting her eyes. She had a look of hope in them, and I guess I kinda did too. "Maybe we can start off as acquaintances and see how that goes. We can't just jump into 'friendship' again, but there's always a start somewhere" I let the full smile form on my face, as she did as well.