Choni one shots

166: The One Where Toni Has A Brother

TONI POV:

Cheryl pulls me into the pool. "Really Cher?" I say coming back up. I splash her with water. She laughs. I pull her closer. She pulls me into a kiss. "I love you." She whispers. I look at her. "Was that to soon?" She ask quietly. "I don't know." I say quietly. "I love you too I just wasn't ready to hear those words-." I cut myself off by kissing her. "I suck at my words." I say quietly. She smiles. "I've noticed." She whispers. "I suck at relationships. I'm sorry." She shakes her head. "You're amazing." She says quietly. "Do you want to come over tonight? My dad is dying to meet you." I say quietly. She smiles. "What about your mom?" She ask. "Ahh... my parents got a divorce and I haven't really seen my mom is a few years and not because my dad is crazy and doesn't want to me realize! It's m-more the other way around." She nods. "How do you not know your father is the controlling and crazy?" She ask quietly. "My mom threw a chair at me when she found out I was Bi. I never really got along with her anyways. Especially after everything with my brother." I say quietly. "I don't want to talk about that right now." She nods. I get out of the pool. "So you coming?" I ask. "What time?" She ask quietly. "7 ish. We eat late. My brother has some stuff and he usually goes after his classes and it goes until about 6:30." I explain more than I should have. "I might be a little bit late but I'll be there by 7:20. I need to meet Betty for something at the Blue and Gold." I smile. I help her out of the pool. "Why did you insist on jumping into the pool?" I ask. She shrugs. "Because it's funny." She says before kissing me. "I have to head home. My dad is gonna kill me if I'm even a minute late." She nods. "I'll see you later tonight." I say before going to my car. I quickly change my clothes, luckily Cheryl lives kinda in the middle of nothing so no one is really gonna see. The closest neighbor is half a mile away down the street. There's woods between Cheryl and her neighbors, it's kinda nice. I get in my car and go home. I walk into the house. "Hey dad!" I say going into the living room. "Hey kiddo! How was Cheryl's?" He ask looking up from his work. "Good! She's coming over for dinner tonight, she might be a little late she has to do something with Betty." I say quietly. "What time?" He ask. "Like 7:20." I answer. "Ok, we can push it back a bit." I nod. "Dad, can we not talk about everything with Danny tonight?" I ask him. He looks at me. "You haven't..?" I shake my head. "We've only been together for a few months now." I say quietly. "Yeah, 6 months to tell her Toni."
I sigh. "She just found out you and mom are divorced. Like 10 minutes ago." I say quietly. "We don't really talk about our baggage, not with great detail." I explain. "You're gonna have to talk about it." I nod. "I just really love her dad, I can't lose her because of Danny's stupid decisions!" I say before going to into my room.

We had dinner with my dad and it went better than I thought, my brother wasn't being his usual self. "Your dad is kinda scary." Cheryl say sitting on my bed. "Yeah, he was a drill sergeant for almost 30 years." I say. She nods. "But he's pretty chill now. Well, with me. He doesn't trust my brother at all." I whisper. "I don't really trust him either." I add. "Why?" She ask quietly. "He's a drug addict. I few years ago, before my parents got a divorce, he overdosed and I had to be the one to find him." I say quietly. She looks at me. "My parents got a divorce shortly after that." I say quietly. "Do you have any shit I don't know about?" I ask quietly. "Everything I've been through has been pretty public." She says quietly. I look at her. "Some of it is true, some of it is false. Most is true." She says sadly. "Your dad actually killed your brother?" She nods. "I'm sorry." I say quietly. She shrugs. "It happened, it sucks but it happened." She says quietly.

I walk out to the kitchen and see Danny. "Hey Toni." He says. "Why are you just standing there?" I ask quietly. "Because dad is testing my piss." He says quietly. "You did that to yourself so I'm not gonna feel bad for you." I say quietly. "You think I want to be a drug addict?" He ask pissed. "I think you got pressured into taking some kind of drug and didn't want to stop the fun. And when you did want to stop, you couldn't." I whisper. "Am I wrong?" I ask quietly. Dad walks out. "You're clean." He says. I look at Danny. "Is that really your piss?" I ask. "Yeah." He nods. "You really don't trust me, do you?" I shake my head. "No, not after I was the one to find you passed out overdosed on god knows what!" I yell. "You can't know what I'm going through!" He yells back. "You weren't the one finding you, thinking you were dead! You aren't the one who still has a nightmares because of you! You aren't the one who doesn't trust your girlfriend because you're afraid that she's gonna do the same thing that you did, even though she has no history with drugs! You're not the one who panics every time you're passed out on the couch!" I explain to him. "Daniel. You single handedly are the reason I have trust issues." I say quietly. "Not mom, you." I add. "Now if you would excuse me, I need to get to the fridge and get a soda before I pass out and traumatize you." I grab my god damn soda and go back into the bedroom. "Leave the door open!" Dad yells. I open the door as little as possible. "He never clarified." I say quietly. Cheryl looks at me. "You heard me fight with my brother, didn't you?" She nods. "I'm sorry." I whisper. "I get it. If you were in my house you would hear the same just not about drugs and about murder instead." She says quietly. "We both have fucked up families." She adds. "No shit."