New York Style
Chapter 7
Toni POV
I watched as Cheryl walked into he living room where I had been waiting for fifteen minutes now, looking more gorgeous than ever. She had a black jumpsuit on, and the necklace I had gotten her as an engagement present. In contrast, I wore a navy jumpsuit, long sleeved and simple. Her hair was in boxer style French braids, and my hair was blown out and curled.
"Wow babe, you look st-stunning." I said, stuttering over my words.
"You too stutters." She teased me back, I'm glad she was feeling better.
I escorted her down to the garage where we hopped into the garage and drove off towards the Andrews apartment.
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Veronica's POV
I sat at my vanity applying some makeup for tonights get together. I had certainly needed afresh coat, as the office was especially crazy. Just as I was putting the finishing touches on, Archie walked into our room with a dress shirt and new dress pants that I had gotten him for Christmas.
Archie and I had seemingly perfect lives. The all-star football quarterback, and the badass lawyer. We had talked about kids, but we decided that now wasn't the best time, maybe in a year or so. But as of now, we were perfectly content with how our lives were playing out.
"You look gorgeous Ronnie." Archie said from across the room.
"And you are the sexiest man alive Archikins." I said back.
I walked over to him and dressed a deep passionate kiss on his lips. We battled for a few minutes but realized that we had guest coming over soon. Over the past few years, we have worked on controlling our selves, ever since we went at it and I ended up being late for a very important meeting. So we put an end to thing and both went out to the living room to watch some TV before guests arrived.
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Betty's POV
"Jug! Are you almost ready?!" I called to our room on the other end of the apartment. I had called the bathroom for getting ready because of the lighting, so Jug had the bedroom and his occasional bathroom pop-ins to get a comb or his gel.
"Ya I just finished" he said as he walked into the living room, buttoning his shirt, and walking over to kiss me.
"You are the prettiest woman on this planet." He said to me lovingly.
"You aren't to bad yourself" I said teasingly.
He walked over to me and picked me up into his arms bridal style, and I began to laugh with shock he then stopped and kissed me once again.
"I love you Betty Jones"
"And I love you, Forsythe." I said with a smirk.
With my teasing he brought me over to the bed so then I was hanging above it and dropped me onto the soft duvet. I guess I deserved that.
"ooh we better get going, it's 5:45" Jug said, ad we quickly scrambled out into the streets of New York, and started our quick walk to the Andrews' residence.
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Toni POV
We walked the hall leading up to the Andrews' apartment feeling great. Although my morning sickness looked as though it was going to ruin my day, this gathering had really lifted my spirits. Now that I had a family, the holiday season became one of great cheer. We walked right into to their apartment to see Arch snd V siting next to each other on the couch. We all greeted each other and then fell into conversation as a Christmas Carol played in the backroom. Eventually the Jones' showed up and the festivities had begun. We started with present exchanges.
"Wow V, it's gorgeous" Betty said as she looked at the new jacket Veronica had got her. It truly was gorgeous, too hard to explain but gorgeous none the less.
It was time for people to open gifts from Cheryl and I, I had gotten the gifts for the boys, and Cheryl for the girls. Cheryl had gotten Veronica a new purse from a top designer here in New York, and Betty a new clutch.
I got Jug a new leather jacket with homage to the serpents on the inside and beanie, the same beanie of course, and the new jacket because he couldn't be a detective and represent a gang. I got Archie this hand worming thing that he has been raving about lately, so I figured I get it for him. We then settled in for dinner, this is where problems arose.
"I love you guys" Betty said.
"Me too, you guys are my family." Veronica said.
"Double that" Cher said
"Triple that" Arch said.
"Quadrouple that" I added.
"I don't know what comes after quadrouple, but that" Jug said with a laugh.
We ate together, raving about V's cooking, and how amazing this whole event was. We then moved onto desert.
"So for desert, I have my mousse, and my finest champagne." Veronica said.
Me and Cheryl were sitting across the room from each other at this point, but our eyes connected in seconds. What were we gonna do? Cheryl couldn't just turn down alcohol, that wasn't really like her, but she couldn't drink it either. As Cheryl continued to look at me with a worried look, I suddenly got an idea, V and B had just left to go get the desert and they were back in seconds, but that gave me just enough time to send Cheryl a text
In Text:
Tt: I have an idea, just play along.
Cher: Will do, hope works babe.
Back in real life
Betty and Veronica walked out and started to hand out champagne, and everyone took it. We all started to sip, except for Cher, who sat quietly, and just like that my pool up plan was set into action.
"Cher, what's up, you never turn down a drink." Veronica said with concern.
"Exactly why she's not drinking. We made a bet, that she wouldn't be able to not drink for a week, it' day two and she's thriving as you can see." I said slyly, a smirk playing at my lips, and Cheryl jumped right in.
"Ya I regret not making you do the bet too, I feel like a 20 year old at a liquor store." She said with a playful eye roll.
"Oh my god, that's too funny." Betty said, letting me and Cher know that our master plan had worked, but we were spending the next two weeks with the gang, so we would have to tell them eventually, but this cover worked for now. We laughed the rest of the night enjoying each other, and ended up sleeping over. Cheryl and I had already packed for Vermont, so all we had to do was swing by the apartment to get our stuff before we left at eleven. So we got up around nine and took a cab back to the apartment
"That was close T, but super smart thinking." Cheryl said while in the car.
"I know right, we were too close to getting caught." I said.
"And as much as I loved you solution, that can only work for a week, and the. We have to find some other way to get me out of drinking." Cheryl said.
"well we'll just have to tell them, they are our basic family after all" I replied.
"Ya I guess you're right, but when are we going to tell them?" Cher asked.
"I don't know, we'll figure that out later" I said as the car pulled up to our building.
We went inside greeting our doorman and then taking the elevator all the way up to our apartment, before going to our bed room to grab our stuff. Cheryl and I packed separately, just because it was easier to keep track of all of our things. The inly thing that I was bringing was a black backpack, and a duffle bag with my ski clothes in it. Cheryl on the other hand had two full suitcases with all of her clothes, and a duffle bag for ski equipment. I don't know how she planned to have that all fit in the back of the car, but that was her problem not mine.
Cheryl and I waited around the house for about an hour or so, until she got a text from Veronica saying that they were on their way. We made our way downstairs just before the black SUV pulled up in front of our building. We quickly piled our stuff into the back of the car before hopping in and heading off on my favorite trip of the year.
A/N: hey guys! That finishes off chapter Sven, I tried to include more of The other couples in this chapter, but there will most likely be more next chapter. I just want to apologize in advance because school basketball is acting up so I am a little short for time at the moment, so I may miss an upload or two. But besides that I hope you liked it! Keep leaving suggestions for the one shot series launching December first, and remember to keep smiling!