Cheryl Blossom Imagines (GxG)

Chapter 17 | The aftermath

Your P.O.V.
"What happened?" My head felt heavy. Rubbing my tear-stained eyes I held out my hand for her to take. "I need to go home." Toni noticed my slurring and quickly helped me up. "Let me drive you." I firmly held onto her as we walked over to her motorcycle. All I wanted was to sleep, forget this whole day even happened. "Here you go." My eyes were sore from crying, but the worst thing of all was the feeling in my chest. I had cheated on Cheryl, the girl I loved, with Veronica, one of my best friends. I felt horrible. "Thanks." I took the helmet from her and quickly put it on wanting to get out of there as fast as possible. "Hold on tight." It felt like a 2-minute drive when we arrived at my house and I jumped off the motorcycle again. "Wait, y/n." I turned around to face Toni, visibally worn out. "Let me join you." Whatever, I nodded and we walked inside. The first thing I wanted to do was go to my room and fall asleep forever. Toni stayed downstairs to make me a snack in the kitchen. I plopped on my bed, took off my clothes and quickly settled myself under my blanket. Sighing I traveled off to sleep.

A few hours later I woke up. Still being half asleep I reached for my phone on the bedside table. It felt weird to wake up at 6 p.m when half the day was already over. That reminded me: I kissed Veronica. "I cheated on Cheryl." I still couldn't believe it...tears slowly filled my eyes again, when- "You're up!"
Toni came walking in with a tray full of, I didn't know what it was, but it smelled so good. The thought of making dinner hadn't even crossed my mind yet. "Here, eat." She demanded. "Wow my favorite." I was very impressed with Toni and how she remembered what my favorite food was. I dove right in and stuffed my face with the comfort food. "This is so good, thank you." My mouth was full, but she somehow understood what I was trying to say and waved it off. "It's nothing." She said trying to be modest about it. I really appreciated Toni for not asking me about what happened at all so far. It must have been scary, and not to mention frightening, to find your best friend crying all alone in a parking lot. I didn't want to talk about it just yet and was hoping she'd give me a little more time. "I'll be downstairs if you need me." Did I need Toni to always take care of me from now on? The thought of it wasn't so bad actually. Smiling to myself, I finished my meal and made my way downstairs to thank her once more. But as I walked down the stairs, I heard 2 voices. It was Toni and Cheryl talking to each other in my kitchen. I freaked out and tried to go back to my room as silently as possible. That's when I changed my mind though, I had to face this head-on. But was I ready to be confronted with it yet? The last person I wanted to see right now was Cheryl, but she probably wanted to check on me for skipping school. Then, footsteps suddenly came my way making me run up the stairs again. "I'll text you when she gets better." I heard a 'thank you' before the door came to a close again. "What was she doing here." Toni looked up at me as she walked up a few steps. "She wanted to know how you were doing." I shook my head. "Why can't she just call like a normal person would."

"Because she's your girlfriend." Toni suddenly realised what she said, apologising right away. "It's ok." We went back to my room and sat on my bed. "I have no clue what happened to you this morning, but I just need to know that you're ok now." She said before taking my hand. I knew Toni was one of the few people in my life that I could really trust, with anything. Fuck it. 

"I kissed Veronica."
I closed my eyes, scared of Toni's reaction. Especially because she and Cheryl had become pretty good friends lately.
"Well, she kissed me but I definitely didn't push her away." I said talking to myself at this point.  Toni didn't seem surprised though. Instead, she looked like she felt guilty about something. 
"Please say something." She looked up at me with eyes full of regret. I furrowed my eyebrows as she scooted closer to me. Toni took in a deep breath of air before she revealed the plan she whispered in Veronica's ear.
"You told her what? How could you do this to me." Toni tried to keep me calm, but I was so fucking done. I jumped off my bed and went to stand on the other side of the room. 
"Why would you tell Veronica to kiss me!" For a moment it was silent, neither of us saying anything when Toni spoke up again.
"Because I thought you loved Cheryl."
"I do." I cut her off right away. 
"Then why did you kiss Veronica?" 
"I don't know! Ok, I don't know why I kissed her." It felt like my bedroom walls were closing in on me.
"I gotta go." Toni made a b-line for my bedroom door but I didn't want her to leave me. The last thing I wanted right now, was to be alone. 
"What the hell y/l/n." Toni crossed her arms as I was now suddenly standing in front of her, blocking the doorway. 
"Look, I understand why you did what you did. But you had no right to tell Veronica to kiss me, not with Cheryl still being my girlfriend. Even if I didn't kissed her back, I would have been mad at you either way." I knew she felt bad about it and I was willing to forgive her, but the effects of what had happened that morning would be undeniable.
"And truth is...I'm scared Toni. I don't want to lose Cheryl. She's the best thing that has happened to me in this miserable whole world." 
"We both expected this situation to have a total different outcome. But now you have to tell both of them how you really feel." Was really not looking forward to doing that. 
"I know this is hard. And I'm so sorry for putting you in this situation, but you must know that this whole time I had your best interest in mind." I then hugged her very tight and cried into her shoulder. Everything has seemed to have fallen apart; I just wanted for everything to get better. I wanted that the day before had never happened. But it did and nothing could change that now. Grow some balls, y/n. It was in that moment that I decided to take consequences for my actions and talk to both Cheryl and Veronica. Something that I had found out the day before, when I kissed Veronica's lips: I liked both of them. One more than the other, but it was undeniable. I didn't know what the hell I was gonna do, but one thing was for sure. I had to stop crying about this.