Holiday Fic, Day 1: Juniper Breeze for Red
Title: Juniper Breeze
Author: miss_peg
Rating: NC-17 (language)
Summary: Emily's excited for Christmas morning...
Notes: This is the start of my holiday fics. A reminder that whilst many people did them in December I had lots going on (and quite frankly it was a good idea not to do it then as I was highly unmotivated) so I'm doing it in January along with tromana.
Today's prompt was Juniper Breeze from reddawg82 using the characters of Katie and Emily from the British teen drama, Skins.
Emily sat on the end of Katie’s bed with her legs crossed. She tried to be patient, which was a lot harder than it looked. At thirteen, Katie was losing sight of the magic of the occasion but that didn’t stop Emily. She checked her watch. Three minutes left. Still too long. She carefully climbed off the bed and sat down on her own as she fiddled with Katie’s clock, then her own watch. The process probably took about two minutes but that didn’t stop her from putting them forwards just a couple of minutes.
‘Get up!’ she shouted, tugging at Katie’s duvet.
Her twin’s reaction was quick and before too long they were stuck in a battle for the duvet. Emily pulled as hard as she could and fixed her feet firmly on the ground a few inches apart. Katie held on but her defence was weak, something she knew from the moment Emily tried to take her warm, comforting covers.
‘Fuck off Emily, it’s well freezing,’ Katie said, giving up the fight for the duvet. Emily pulled it into a ball in her arms where she held it tightly. Katie grimaced and sent hellish eyes in her direction.
‘It’s Christmas, aren’t you at least a bit excited?’
‘It’s fucking cold,’ said Katie, her only response. Emily threw the duvet back onto the bed and retrieved the package she’d kept under her own.
‘Merry Christmas.’ Emily grinned and handed it over. She waited patiently for Katie to unwrap her carefully selected gift. She’d gone shopping with her dad the weekend before and it took just sixteen minutes for her to find the right present.
Katie’s eyes lit up and she smiled back. She dropped the wrapping paper on the floor and leapt for her phone which sat on her bedside table. Emily watched her hurriedly change the cover of her Nokia phone from a plain blue to animal print. Without another thought, Katie prompted to send a couple of text messages.
‘Katie?’ said Emily, sitting patiently again on her bed. She loved seeing the look on her family’s face when she gave them presents and enjoyed giving as much as receiving. But even she couldn’t stand the wait any longer.
‘Sorry, thanks Emsy, here,’ said Katie, thrusting a small, unwrapped box in her direction.
Emily creased her eyebrows and turned the box over. Juniper Breeze, eau de toilette. She looked back up at Katie who had already begun digging into the stockings that had been left on the floor by the door.
‘You bought me perfume?’ she asked, to which Katie grinned and squealed at the ten pound note she found in the bottom of her stocking.
Emily rolled her eyes and opened the box. She didn’t wear perfume unless it was a special occasion and then she just used her mother’s. She wasn’t sure what purpose she’d have for a whole bottle of…Emily began to cough after spraying the bottle against her wrist.
‘What is this?’ Emily choked, throwing the bottle down onto the bed and scrubbing at her wrist with a face wipe she’d found in her stocking twenty minutes earlier.
‘It’s perfume, it’s well lush.’
‘It smells like dad’s dirty socks.’
‘Don’t be such an ungrateful cow.’
‘Thanks,’ said Emily loud enough for Katie to hear, until she had her nose in the wardrobe. ‘For nothing.’