All My Days

more fluffy moments with cheryl and toni

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"I have one more thing for you," Cheryl smiled, closing the front door behind her.

"Babe, you already brought me on a picnic and got me a new helmet. All I did was get you a necklace and some flowers. You're kinda makin' me look bad," Toni chuckled as she shed her jacket and hung it on the hook by the door, letting Cheryl lead her by the hand upstairs.

"I'm allowed to spoil you, TT. Besides, it's really not much."

Toni followed her to their bedroom and sat down on the bed at her command while she fished a wrapped gift out of her desk. It was wrapped in red paper with a pink bow on top, not too big, not too small. It piqued Toni's interest, wondering what Cheryl could have possibly gotten her.

"Like I said, it's not much, but..." the redhead trailed off, handing her the gift.

Toni locked eyes with her as she took the gift carefully from her hands, only breaking contact to look at what she was unwrapping. It was a book, spine a bit stretched out from the things that were taped and glued to the pages.

Our First Year was written in neat calligraphy on the first page, followed by a swarm of memories on each one that followed. There were photos, notes, tons of little mementos that filled the book. Each page was littered with little things that were just so...them.

"Cher..."

"I was collecting all the notes you leave in my locker," Cheryl interrupted, feeling the need to explain, "And as I started putting them all together, I realized I had so many more things saved like photos, love letters...I just wanted to put them all together to show you that every little thing means the world to me, Toni. From the shortest little note you write on a piece of scrap paper to a five page letter that you wrote after we got into a stupid fight."

Toni glanced down at the book, smiling as she ran her fingers over a pressed flower from the bouquet she'd gotten Cheryl for her birthday last summer. There were movie stubs from The Bijou, receipts from Pop's, wristbands from a concert they'd gone to. She knew that Cheryl was sentimental, but it still amazed her how thorough she was. And it amazed her even more how full the book was after only a year of dating.

"I don't even know what to say," Toni's lips curled up into a smile as she looked down at the photo on the page she was on. She was riding on Fangs's back while Cheryl was piggy-backed on Sweet Pea at a bonfire, giant grins on all their faces.

"You don't have to say anything," she sat beside her, "Because I'm certain you feel the same way about me that I do about you. We don't always need words. I don't even think I could put how I feel about you into words, Toni."

The pink haired girl leaned over to kiss her, closing the book in her lap and setting it aside. "I love you, Cheryl," she whispered, giggling with her as they fell back against the mattress. Her girlfriend was right. Whatever it was that she felt for her, it couldn't be put into words. As hard as she tried, she couldn't come up with what those words were. But whenever they looked at one another, they felt it. Whatever the feeling was, they felt it throughout their entire bodies. It was love, for sure, but something much stronger than that.

"Happy anniversary, TT."

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"Shh, don't wake her up," Cheryl hushed the girls as the three of them crept into her and Toni's bedroom. Her wife had been working every day for the past two weeks without a day off. But today was her birthday and Cheryl had already turned off her alarms. She'd already contacted her boss last week to give her a heads up that Toni wouldn't be going into work today. Not that Toni knew any of this.