Cheryl's POV
I wake up and remember I have practice so I pack my bags, grab a granola bar and head out the door since it's close to 6 already.
I get to the gym and see everyone sitting down "Hey" I say and they all wave "Why does everyone look so dead?" I ask "It's 6 a.m no one wants to be up" Veronica says "Just wait until Toni comes in, its a whole different Toni" Veronica says and the girls laugh. We're all sitting there waiting and To I comes through the doors, her bag gets caught on the door so she pushes and kicks the door aggressively. She walks towards everyone like a zombie and sits down drinking her energy drink "Watch this" Peaches whispers "Hey Toni!!" Peaches says cheerfully "Shut the fuck up Peaches before I shove that basketball down your throat!!" Toni says aggressively and I gasp "She will get over it at like 7" Veronica tells me and I nod "Good morning everyone!!" The coach says jumped up and down "Come on let's get moving" she tells us and we stand up "Toni you too baby. I know you're tired but you have to get moving" Coach Zoe says "Fine" Toni mumbles and stands up with everyone else. We do some warm ups and run a few laps. We start practicing some drills and plays and stuff like that.
It's around 8 o'clock and Toni has chilled a lot, she's not getting aggravated by everything anymore and she stopped walking and running like a zombie. "Hey babe" Toni comes up to me and kisses my cheek, the team awes behind us "Hi grouchy" I smile giving her a kiss on the lips, the team ooohs and awes behind us again "Hey everyone" Betty says coming through the gym doors with coffee in one hand and some clothes in the other "Thanks beautiful" Veronica says running up to her and grabbing the clothes "Why are you here?" I ask Betty "She left her clothes at my house and I won't be back home until tomorrow so I brought them" Betty told me and the team ooohs again "Shhh" Veronica told them "You stayed over Betty's house?" Toni asks V "Yea" V says smiling and the two of them do their handshake "Well I have to go but I'll see you guys later. Have fun" Betty says walking to the doors "Wait!!" I say running to her and taking a sip of her coffee "Thanks" I say running back to the bleachers "Bye" she laughs leaving.
"Someone hook their phone up to the aux" Coach Zoe says and three girls fight over it but Peaches ends up getting the aux. She plays good music and we are all dancing around together "You want to go to the dance with me next week?" Toni shyly asks me, I smile and kiss her lips "Of course" I say and she smiles back.
"Hey Cheryl I have never seen you without your glasses" Peaches tells me and all the girls stop "Yea me either" they all say "Well I have to wear them to see" I laugh "Take them off" Veronica chants and everyone joins in "And take the hair out of the ponytail" Peaches says. No one but Betty, Kevin and Jughead have seen me without my glass, it's not that I look weird without them but I just don't take them off often. I grab the sides of my glasses and slide them off and take my hair out the ponytail it's always in "Damn!!" Peaches yells "You're fucking hot" Some of the girls said "You look good with your hair down" Veronica says "Your even hotter...didn't know that was possible" Toni says "So y'all are saying I'm ugly with my hair up and glasses on" I say and they all start rambling about how they didn't say that and I laugh "You just look like a little nerd with your glasses on" Veronica says "Fuck you" I say to her "That's Toni's job" V says putting her hands up in surrender, Toni smirks but hits Veronica in the stomach "Don't hit her stomach you know she's trying to get abs" Peaches teases "Oh shut up Peaches" Veronica whines "You don't have abs either!" Veronica adds "I have abs!!" Toni brags taking off her shirt "Yes we know" Veronica says hitting her stomach "Cheryl has baby abs" Toni laughs "Do not" I protest "Take off the shirt then" Toni says "You just want her shirt off" Veronica laughs "Maybe" Toni smirks but I take my shirt off anyways "See she has more abs then you" Toni laughs "How!?" Veronica asks offended "I workout" I say laughing at Veronica who is now pouting "It's okay one day you will be a big girl" Peaches teases poking V's stomach "Why does no one ever have clothes on!!" Coach Zoe laughs coming back in the gym with food for everyone "Because it's hot and so are we" Toni says high-fiving people "I see Veronica still has her little bird chest" Coach laughs "I'm quitting" Veronica pouts "No you're not" Toni says jumping on the girls back, for Toni to be only 5'3 she can jump pretty high. "Cheryl get your girlfriend" Veronica says trying to get Toni off of her "Shes not my girlfriend" I tell her "Not yet" Toni says and I blush "We get it y'all like each other" Peaches says laughing "We get it you like Galette" Toni teases "Shut up" Peaches says grabbing Toni and tackling her to the ground "Girls this is basketball not wrestling get up and stop getting naked in my gym" Coach Zoe says "Go eat" she adds and everyone runs to the cafeteria where they set up breakfast for us. They made pancakes, waffles, sausage and juice for everyone. We all say thank you and start eating. This food is good "This is actually made not that nasty school food" Peaches says to me "We heard that Peaches" a cafeteria woman says "People have allergies so we can't cook regular food but with the sports teams and clubs we can since it's less people" the lady tells me and I nod "Well thank you this is delicious" I smile and she smiles back.
Practice is over and everyone is walking to their cars, I'm holding hands with Toni when I feel a rush cold water being pour over me. I start to freak out, the first thing I think of is the river where my father and brother drowned, the day we all almost drowned but I got caught on a tree branch and managed to climb up it, I screamed at the top of my lungs as I watched my brother and father's lifeless bodies float to the top of the river. I remember crying for weeks and having nightmares and flashbacks, I almost couldn't go to their funeral because it became too much to deal with.
I scream with terror as all the memories of that day come back as they keep dumping water on us. "Girls!!" I heard coach Zoe say strictly, I froze and tears ran down my face, my eyes are red and my face is pale "Cheryl? Cheryl! Are you okay!?" The coach runs up to me "Breath" she says and I start breathing again, I take a deep breath and start shaking "Cheryl do we need to go get help" I hear, I shake my head slowly "I-I'm fine" I say shakily "Girls go get a chair" she says and I hear girls running to the gym door and running back, I sit down and they wrap a towel around me and give one to Toni too. I finally catch my breath and stop shaking, I'm staring at my car "Hey" Toni says "Hi" I say softly "Are you feeling better?" She asks and I nod my head yes "We're sorry Cheryl" Peaches and some other girls say, I'm guessing they're the one who poured water on us "It's fine" I tell them "What happened?" Toni asks grabbing my hands, I look at the girls surrounding me. Betty gets out her car, runs up to me and starts holding me "It's okay. V told me what happened and I came immediately, you're safe" Betty said and I hold her tight not wanting to let go. She let's go of me and kisses the top of my head "Who the hell did this?!" Betty says angrily "We didn't think she would freak out" A girl says "What did you expect to hap-" I interrupted Betty "They didn't know, I'll tell them so it doesn't happen again okay?" I say and she nods her head glaring at the girl "When my brother and father drowned that day at the river...I was with them. I went under the water too but my clothes got caught on a branch and I managed to climb on top of it. I haven't been fully immersed underwater like that since and it freaked me out" I tell them "I'm sorry, I should of thought of that" Peaches says "Well you never think" Betty defends "Betty" I say calmly and she sighs "Sorry" she mumbles "It's fine. You didn't know" I say "Never again" coach says and they nod their heads "Do you need someone to drive you home?" Toni asks me "I can leave my car here and come back to get it" Veronica suggests "No it's fine, I can drive" I say "I'm driving her" Betty says and I look at her "You're not driving alone. So either I drive you or I follow you home" she says "Then get in your car" I say getting up. We all get into our cars and I drive off with Betty following close behind me, I look behind me to see Toni and Veronica following me too. I'm seriously fine, they don't have to follow me home but I let them do what they want.
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Into the unknown (Choni)
FanfictionCheryl is a "broken" teen, who has been through hell and back. She is accepted by her mother but picked on at school because of her father and brother's death. They died from a boating accident. She's also very smart and wears glasses. Toni is the...
