choni

Chapter 81

Sunlight streamed through the half-closed curtains of their bedroom, landing across tangled limbs. Cheryl's morning alarm went off, loudly blasting from somewhere in the room. The redhead rubbed her eyes and got up to turn off her alarm. She shivered when her feet hit the cold hardwood floor and the cold air from the room left goosebumps on her bare arms and legs. Cheryl scurried over to the dresser where her phone was charging and shut off the alarm finally.

"Get back under these covers, baby," Toni said, her voice muffled by the pillow her head was rested on. "It's freezing in this bed without your warm body in it with me." Toni added with a slight pout.

"TT, as much as I want to stay here with you, I have to get ready," Cheryl explained to her husband as she wrapped a sheet around her body and started to get up, but Toni grabbed her hand to stop her.

"It's Saturday, Cher." Toni chuckled. "Now come back to bed with me."

"Oh, I must have forgotten to shut off me alarm last night," Cheryl mumbled to herself, laying back down and pulling the sheets back over herself. The redhead snuggled closer to her husband and wrapped her arm around his waist, resting her head where Toni's neck meets her shoulder.

"Good morning," Cheryl whispered into Toni's ear.

"Morning, baby," Toni replied, kissing Cheryl's forehead and wrapping her arm around her shoulders.

They laid like that in a comfortable silence for a while, enjoying the silence in the quiet room. With Alex getting older and more active silence was a rare thing in this house. And Toni and Cheryl always made sure to enjoy every minute of it as much as possible. Cheryl began to trace the loin tattoo on Toni's left upper arm, it was a habit she fell into whenever they were cuddling.

"You know, sometimes I only think you're dating me for my ink, Cher" Toni chuckled looking down at his girlfriend.

"Of course I'm not," Cheryl laughed. "How many do you have again?"

"Three," Toni replied. "Are you going to make me do the thing again, where you go through all of my tattoos and have me explain what each one means?"

"I wasn't going to, but now that you mention it, I might as well," Cheryl said, smiling from ear to ear. Toni sighed, which made Cheryl giggle.

"You don't have to explain me what your 'stay strong' and your 'believe in yourself' tattoo are both in your mothers hand writing. And those two things your mothers always says to you whenever you felt down or still feel down today. Your mom always said this whenever things seemed to get harder at the beginning or whenever you came home frustrated because someone was an asshole again that day. And when you finally got the chance to be your true self you ask your mom if it was okay with her if you get those two things tattooed on your chest over your heart. Like this you could always look at it every morning when you wake up and have a great start to your day or whenever you felt down but your mom wasn't around." Cheryl said silently, a slight blush covering her cheeks. Toni looked down at her with surprise covering his facial expression. If Toni was honest he knew that Cheryl listened to everything he told her, but he never imagined that Cheryl would know the exact reason for those tattoos without having to think about it to long. In moments like these Toni fell in love with Cheryl all over again.

"You know you truly the best person to ever be in my life." Toni said and leaned down to kiss Cheryl slightly.

"I love you so much Toni" Cheryl whispered as she broke the kiss for a small moment.

"I love you more baby" Toni whispered before connecting their lips again. They only broke the kiss as the need to breath got too much but Toni still had the need to be close to Cheryl, so he pulled her as close as possible and held her. Cheryl knew that in this moment Toni just needed to be close to her and know that she will never leave her. Which is something that Cheryl would never to in her life because that would break her as much as it would break Toni. So Cheryl decided to let Toni pull her closer and started to trace the lion tattoo again. They stayed like this for a little until Cheryl knew that Toni was calm again.