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I’m running mad where the hell is she I haven’t seen Cheryl since yesterday at school she never misses school she’s got Hell to run here, in fact if you ask some of, well most of, well okay all of the student body Cheryl is the devil herself and this is her kingdom. I go to Vixen practice and right up to Veronica and Betty, “Have you guys seen Cheryl?!” They both look at me, “we were actually about to ask you the same thing” Veronica says. “I haven’t seen her since yesterday she won’t answer her phone to calls for texts and that’s not Cheryl.” Betty speaks up, “Well maybe she’s sick” I start to get a bit angry, “Even if she was sick she wouldn’t ignore me or leave Vixen practice without a back up captain nor would she let her perfect GPA fall!” Betty looks taken back by my sudden anger, “I was just trying to help” she whispers. Veroncia steps between us with her hands between us, “let’s just calm down, Toni me and you will go to Thislehouse after school and see if Cheryl is there.”
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Veronica knocks on the door only to have Penelope herself open the door. “What do you want?” She glares. But luckily for me I’m more pissed than her fake attitude ever will be, “Where’s Cheryl? she wasn’t at school," Only to find this bitch smiles. "I don’t know where my defiant sad of a daughter is now, ran away for all I care. she’ll come back she always does." She goes to close the door but before she closes the door I come up and slam it open and walk into the house, "listen I don’t care how shit your life is right now with your son gone and husband out of the way all I care about is where your daughter fucking is." I dangerously get closer to the devil herself pointing my finger at her, "I swear to hell if you gave one damn about her-” before I could go on Veronica pulls me back with Penelope releasing her breathe as me getting closer to her scared her. Good. “Look we don’t mean to cause you harm, you say she ran away you wouldn’t know where would you?” Penelope glares holes into my head before slowly turning to Veronica smiling again forcefully. “Like I said don’t know and frankly don’t care, now you two better leave unless you want me to call down the sheriff to escort you and your little tyrant of a friend there.” I wanted to say something else but Veronica is pulling me away until I feel another hand grab my arm. I turn to see it’s Nana Rose Cheryl talks about her all the time adoringly, she pulls me down and slowly whispers, “Black Hood ha-” before she could finish talking Penelope pushes Nana Rose away glaring at us. “I said get out.”
“She said black Hood what does that mean??! I’m more scared and worried than before. Black hood kills people she can’t be-” I feel tears in my eyes starting to form so I close my eyes, no ones seen me cry except Cheryl. “Toni she’s not dead, Nana Rose said Black Hood maybe Cheryl left to go figure out who he is in secret.” A light bulb went on in my head. That’s it.
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“Who told you I thought my dad was the black Hood??!!” Betty screeches in surprise.
“Well to be fair me and Jughead are in the same gang not to mention you and Cheryl aka my girlfriend broke into your dad’s motel together.” I angrily cross my arms, wasn't to happy when Cheryl went to go do that with her damn cousin.
“I feel you really tell anyone who listens.” Veronica chimes.
“Coming from someone who’s got daddy issues herself there” Betty Retorts.
I grit my teeth and lower my voice to say, “were getting off track I don’t care about either of your issues at the moment it’s been TWO days and my baby is still missing, now Betty when you two were in there was there anything you found that could lead to the Black Hood stashing people somewhere or a secret spot they have for hiding things.” I plead.
Betty stops and thinks, “Well nothing to unusual.”
I sigh, “Think of money like bank statements, checks anything.” I desperately plead at this point.
“Actually I found it odd my father donated a lot of money to the sisters of quite mercy when we don’t even go to church.” Betty scrunches her eyebrows in thought.
I furrow my brows, “Well isn’t the black Hood about getting rid of sin or some shit like that?”
“Yes but I don’t think the sister’s do gay conversion.” Veronica states. “But I know someone who does.”
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“Yes it absolutely could be them, they still do it under the books” Kevin retorts, “but if she is there I know how to get in. Meet me at my house at 7.”
“Wait.” Veronica puts her hands up, uhm excuse me wait? “We really think the Black Hood kidnapped Cheryl and took her to some gay conversion camp to fix her instead of killing her?!”
“Well he does seem soft or creepily nice to Betty considering she’s talked to him multiple times. And Cheryl is her cousin” Kevin retorts.
“Wait how do you know about that?! Can’t anyone keep a secret around here?!” Betty yells.
“Veronica meet me at Kevin’s at 7 this is the best lead I have right now and it’s better than nothing.” i say irritated.
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We reach the tunnel as i bust it open with the door leaver thing. We go down the ladder quietly as possible and walk down the tunnel till we reach the building. “Now what?” I look over to Veronica “We search this whole damn place till we find her.” We nod and run off knowing the nuns will find us soon. I’m knocking every door open not so quietly just so maybe Cheryl could hear hoping she was here. I run into this one door except it didn’t budge like the others. So I try again and it barley moved. I look in the tiny window to vaguely see a tiny girl laying on the floor, but what made my blood run cold is her head is red. With sudden anger I try the door again only to have it burst open and I run to her and collapse. I turn her over only to see it really is my girl. “Cheryl baby you got to wake up.” I shake her and her eyes burst open but what she did next I didn’t expect. She’s screaming and kicking and moving her arms like crazy. Telling me to get away and she’s starting to really hurt me. I try to get her to quite down so we don’t get caught. I hear footsteps and hear, “Cheryl it’s me Veronica, honey you got to stop we need to leave.” Cheryl flails into Veronicas arms crying. I feel a wave of jealousy as Cheryl doesn’t come to me but find comfort in someone else. Veronica gives me a look of sympathy but I hear footsteps again tons of them. We need to leave. We get up though it was a bit harder for Veronica considering she’s got a shaking Cheryl in her arms still clinging to her and we book it.
Next thing I know I’m slamming the door shut and putting the door lever thing back into the door so they can’t get through. I told them to run ahead of me so I was the last one to the truck. I get in the back of the truck only to be pushed down hard. I look up to see a shaking Cheryl nuzzling her head into my chest wrapping her arms around me tighter than my jacket. She’s mumbling something I could barley hear over Kevin’s engine. So I pull back and say, “what?” Cheryl looks up tear stained and boggy infested with dirt smeared all over saying, “your real.” She nuzzles her head back into my chest. So I wrap my arms around her while Kevin drives us back to my trailer.
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As Kevin and Veronica finally drive away I pull Cheryl into my house straight to my bathroom. “Baby I’m going to run the shower and we’re going to get in so I can wash you up, okay?” Cheryl only nods. I run the water to the temp I know we both like. I smile a bit remembering all the good times we’ve had so far in this shower. I turn back to Cheryl and slowly slide this disgusting uniform off. Then I go to take off her bra. Cheryl starts to shake a bit whispering, “I’m so ugly I’m so sorry,” my heart breaks. Her body is covered in bruises and welts and cuts. When I turn her around I notice the injection marks and I gasp, “Baby what did they do to you?” Then Cheryl loses it. She leans into me again and starts to cry. I wrap my arms around her, “Shhh you’re safe now no ones going to do that to you ever again baby I’m going to protect you, you’re not leaving my sight ever again baby.” After a few I undress her all the way getting her in the shower.
We lay in bed fully naked thankful for all the fluffy blankets Cheryl brought over one winter due to her being afraid id freeze in the trailer due to me having no heat. I’m running my hands up and down her arms trying to soothe her.
“While they were torturing me, all I thought about was you.”
I look down at her, “I’ve been thinking of you non stop since you’ve been gone.”
Cheryl shakes her head, “me screaming and pushing you away in there, I thought” she pauses, “I thought you were just another illusion and I couldn’t handle it.” She starts to semi freak out again. So I bring her closer, “Shhh we don’t have to talk about it right now baby.” She’s shaking again. I was so afraid when she was screaming and hurting me. Now I know why. “I don’t even know how I got there. All I remember was texting you before bed and looking in the mirror and-” she pauses again with her eyes closed as I feel her start to hyperventilate, “There was someone in my room because I heard a dark voice about how they were going to save me from my sins and give me redemption. I wanted to scream but who would care?! I wanted to call you but everything went black by then.” She was starting to freak out more. “Baby baby please stop it’s okay you’re not there anymore, okay? You’re here mentally and physically you are here with me.” I run my hands up and down her body replacing her pain with my touch. Placing delicate kisses on her head and neck. She starts to calm down again as the sleeping pill I gave her earlier is taking effect. “I love you baby I’m so glad I found you I was worried sick out of my mind now I have you back and I’m not letting you go I promise this is now your house and your room. It’s not much but you got love, and protection and hell we can even get a pet if you desire.” I feel Cheryl move into me more before she sets off to sleep she whispers, “it’s perfect Toni. I love you, you’re my forever.”