When I Met You | CHONI |

Chapter 11

Toni
Cheryl where did you go? Are you ok? I'm sorry.
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Toni
Cheryl please answer me I just want to know you're safe.
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Cheryl
I'm at home.
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Toni
Why did you run?
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Cheryl didn't reply to that text instead she put her phone on the night stand and tried to sleep.

The next morning she was awoken by a light knock on the door and the door slowly creeping open it was Jason.
'Hey' he whispered. Cheryl just sadly smiled back, she felt ashamed that people knew her secret. Jason sat on the end of the bed. 'So you and Toni huh?'
'She's just a friend'
'It looked a little more than friends Cheryl, I'm a little surprised but that's all I still love you, so you like her?'. Cheryl just cried, Jason quickly sat next to her to comfort her. Cheryl just cried for what seemed like forever, all the feelings she had been suppressing flowing out. Jason just patiently held her until she quietened down.
'You should talk to her, she was really worried after you bolted last night'.
'I can't if mom and dad find out I'll never see the light of day again'.
'Don't worry about them, this is about you, I want you to be happy'.
With that Jason stood up to leave before turning around 'talk to her' he said as he shut her door.

Veronica
Cheryl what happened last night with Toni? I'm coming over!
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Cheryl
Nothing happened.
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Veronica
I'm coming over, see you in 10
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Cheryl laid back hoping the bed would swallow her, she couldn't deal with this.

Toni
Can we talk?
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Cheryl ignored the message from Toni and tried to prepare herself for when Veronica arrived. Her bedroom door opened and her stomach dropped as Veronica came in without a word and sat across from Cheryl on her bed.

'Toni was pretty devastated that you ran off last night, I had no idea you guys were a thing'.
'We're not a thing' Cheryl said looking down at her hands.
'Cheryl why didn't you tell me?'
'Tell you what?'
'That you're gay? We are friends nothing would ever change that, I could see the way you look at Toni'.
Cheryl wanted to deny it, she wanted it to be a lie, but she couldn't lie anymore. She was fed up, so fed up she just looks up at her friend.
'I don't know what to do' Cheryl said tears in her eyes.
'Come here' Veronica said pulling her into a hug.

'WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!' Cheryl and Veronica pull out of the hug as Clifford and Penelope burst through her door phone in hand. They shove it in Cheryl's face, on the screen is a photo taken at the party.
'Where did you get that?' Veronica asks looking at the photo of Cheryl and Toni kissing under the tree.
'This is none of your business you need to leave!' Veronica looks at Cheryl but doesn't budge.
Clifford grabs Cheryl by the scruff of her neck throwing her hard against the door.
'WHAT THE HELL!' Veronica yells, Jason burst into the room to find Cheryl on the floor. He helps her up. 'Dad what the fuck!' Jason eyes his father.
'Your sister is deviant, a devil child and I will not accept it!'.
Cheryl turned to the door and she ran, throughout her life all she had done was run away. She had enough of it, she wasn't ever going to be happy, she could only see one escape.
She ran to a place, where she went when she needed to be alone, Sweetwater River.

She pulled out her phone and sent a text to her friend.

Cheryl
I'm sorry I can't do this anymore, thank you for being such a good friend, tell Toni I'm sorry.
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