#cheybriel

At 8 am the next morning, a brunette girl pokes her head in the door, looking drowsy. “Cheeeeyyyyy.” She moans, feet dragging. “Cheeeeyyyy wake up we have to get to class.” She says, peeking around the corner into the living room to see if her friend is already awake. 

  When her tired mind registers what it sees, her eyes widen, and she’s no longer tired.

  Gabe is shirtless, and Chey is wearing one of his shirts, and their hair is horribly ruffled. Cheyenne is still pressed against his chest, eyes closed peacefully, and Gabe is curled protectively around her. 

  Tori’s frozen in the doorway for a few seconds, before stifling her giggles of sheer joy. She whirls back toward the door, pulling her phone from her pocket. She immediately starts texting Susnan: ‘dude i went to go wake up chey for our class and she’n gabe are cuddling in their living room

  Susnan texts back almost immediately: ‘awww but why the freak out?’

  ‘dude, i think she got Gabes d’

  ‘OMG’

  ‘IKR’

  ‘Should we tell anyone else????’

  ‘HELL YEAH. I’ll put it up as a spoiler alert for Chey and then everyone else will know.’

  ‘kaykay. Lunch at 3?’

  ‘Does Supernatural make us sob? I’ll see you at Cafe Telain.’

---

  At 3 on the dot, Tori walks into their favourite cafe to see Susanna at ‘their’ table, and Nicole leaning against the edge of it in her apron. 

  Tori grins, hiking her bag higher up on her shoulder and striding over. “Nicole! Did’ju hear?” 

  Nicole cocks her head to the side, hair down. She’s probably still on the clock, but the break between classes isn’t the only reason they eat lunch at three. Her free-hanging headphone is blaring something. “Hear what?” 

  Her twang is barely there, but Tori knows it’ll pick up. “I think Chey and Gabe fondue’d last night.” 

  Nicole’s eye’s go wide, and she literally has to clap a hand over her mouth to keep from squealing. She takes a deep breath, two, and removes her hand, but she’s grinning from ear-to-ear. “How do ya know?” 

  “I saw the aftermath, duh. Gabe and her were shamelessly cuddling in their living room with sex hair, Gabe shirtless and Chey in his shirt. It doesn’t take Sherlock to make this deduction.” 

  Nicole grins again, jotting down something on her notepad. “I’ll go order your food, Tori.”

  It’s Tori’s turn to grin, and Nicole’s back a few seconds later. “Have you told anyone yet?” Susanna asks, taking a bite of her burger. Tori swipes a few of her fries. 

  “No, just you two. Anyone else who might show up. I was planning to post a spoiler notice, but I can’t think of anything Chey isn’t up to date with/hasn’t seen.”

  Nicole chews on a bit of her hair. After a few moments of silence, she says, “You could still send out a group message. Susanna could do 9, and you could do 8, and then everyone but Chey would know.” 

  “Whoa wait, why do I have to do nine?” 

  “Because I found them and Nicole did the math, so now you have to do something?” Tori offers, and Susanna fakes an offended face, tossing a fry at her. Tori laughs out “Fry abuse!” Which makes Nicole look up from whatever she’s doing on her phone.

  “Hey hey hey, no food fights!” She scolds playfully. The bell at the counter rings, and she walks off to get Tori’s food. Benefits of the empty café is that there’s almost no wait between you and your food. 

  Tori pulls out her phone, intending to start on the group message, but she has a text from... Cheyenne.

  ‘why didnt you wake me for class?’

  ‘forgot, sorry. We didn’t do anything but notes, you can copy mine later’ 

  ‘k’

  Tori frowns as Nicole sets down her plate. “Something wrong?” 

  “Just doesn’t feel right lying to Chey, is all.” 

  Nicole grimaces, and pats her on the shoulder. “ ‘s not like she’s not going to find out soon anyway, we are us.” She plucks a fry from Tori’s plate, glancing between her and Susanna. “ ‘Nother show night? It is Friday, nothing better to do. I just picked up Supernatural Season 1 from Wal-Mart. We can gather around my cheap tv and cry about how little the boys were.” 

  Susanna grins. “Sam’s haaairrrr...” She reminisces, and Nicole laughs, then hums distractedly. Another person walks through the door, so she excuses herself. 

  Lunch passes in a flurry of texting and food. 

  ----

  When Nicole proposes another movie night, everyone agrees, which is surprising. But boredom with friends with better than boredom by yourself. 

  They do watch season 1, and there are coos of ‘they were so little!’ and calls for them not to go out because it wasn’t safe for ‘little bitty hunters’. 

  They’ve just finished with the skinwalker episode when Sarag grins mischievously, elbowing Chey in the side lightly. “Sooo.” She drawls. “How was it with Gabe?”

  Chey blinks, gesturing for Tess to pause the show. “How was what?” 

  Ashley blinks at her. “You know, last night.” 

  Chey blinks. “Fine, I guess? He made a blanket fort.”

  Monica and Sarag burst out in laughter. “You fucked.... In a pillow fort?” Monica forces out in between giggles, and the others start laughing as well. Cheyenne blinks, and beside her, Nicole shrugs. 

  “Sounds like Gabe, but I would’ve figured you’d’ve wanted a bed, Chey.” 

  “Wait wait wait.” Cheyenne says, waving her hands around slightly. “Gabe and I haven’t had the sex yet, guys.”

  Everyone freezes. “But...” Sarah starts, “Tori saw you guys. Cuddling. With sex hair. You were in Gabe’s shirt, while he didn’t have one at all!” 

  Chey looks at Tori. “So that’s why you didn’t wake me!” 

  Tori shrugs. “It was a logical assumption!”  She exclaims. 

  “Guess you won’t be needing to bake that cake, Nicole.” Hamish chimes in. 

  “Sad.” The girl says. “We were out of milk anyway.”

  Chey laughs. “I’m so telling Gabe about this.” 

  “Telling Gabe about what?” he asks. Several of the girls shriek. 

  Chey laughs as Mamdy blushes and puts her knife away. Brooke jumps up. “I’m going to go get more tea, anyone want some?” There were some agreements, and Chey gets up to hug her boyfriend. 

  “No, seriously, tell Gabe what?” he asks again as Chey pulls him into an unoccupied armchair. The girls fidget and mutter, but Chey leans up to whisper in his ear, “They thought we had sex.” 

  Gabe starts laughing boisterously, long enough for tears to form. “Ah. Not yet, girlies. Chey will probably tell you herself whenever that happens. But in exchange for the laugh, have a sweet.” Nicole squeaks happily, giggling something about free candy.

  Cara points at them. “You two seem awfully calm for two people who just found out that their friends spent ALL DAY thinking they had the sex.” 

  Chey scoffs. “Oh, like we were expecting anything else? We’ve been in each others love lives since Hamish told us about his first boyfriend.” 

  There are general agreements, and once Brooke returns with everyone’s drinks, they start the show back up again. 

  Cuddled close by Gabe and comforted by the whispers as everyone quotes the episode by heart, Chey finds herself nodding off. She doesn’t fight sleep.

  -----

  Once they’ve finished the next episode, almost everyone is almost asleep, the long week dragging on their nerves. Gabe stands, shifting his sleeping love into his arms. “I’m going to take her home.” he whispers aloud. Tori and a few of the others nod, and Gabe makes a silent exit. 

  Back in their apartment, he sets Chey carefully on their bed, shucking his pants before getting in himself and pulling Chey in close. 

  “Love you, Chey.” He whispers into her hair.