30 Days - Chapter 2 (PART TWO)
Title: 30 Days (Chapter 2) PART TWO
Author: ifonlyyouwere
Rating: T (at the moment, due to swearing)
Pairing: Naomi/Emily.
Word Count: 5,213
Summary: Emily has always been in her sisters shadow, she never gets praised by her parents, sometimes they talk like she doesn't exist. That is until Naomi, Keiran's future step-daughter moves in next door with her Mum...
Disclaimer: I don't own Skins, I don't own the characters, I don't own the scenarios. All I own are my ideas. Not too shabby.
A/N: The majority of this chapter was written out in the sunshine on the hottest day of the year, listening to Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. Which is why all the songs in this chapter are by him :)
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Part One
Their drive back was silent, not awkwardly silent, comfortable, both knackered from their day. The soft sounds from the CD played through the car again, and the sun gradually disappeared behind the horizon. Emily’s foot tapped along to the beat, humming slightly as she gazed ahead, out on to the open road. They arrived back at Naomi’s house, parked up and climbed out, collecting their things from the boot. Naomi unlocked her front door and motioned Emily inside.
“Is it ok?”
“Of course it is… it’s only my mum around at this time of night, and she’s hardly threatening.” Emily nodded and followed Naomi in, moving out the way as she shut the door behind her. Naomi slung the bag to the floor; hearing small traces of sand hit the laminate flooring. She led Emily through the hallway, letting her walk through in front of her, placing one hand on her waist, leading her through. Emily could do nothing but gulp as she felt Naomi’s hand mold to the shape.
“Oh, hello love!” Gina smiled big as she led the girls into the front room, letting them sit down on the sofa in front of her while she took a seat in the chair. Emily gulped; this felt like some kind of meeting the parent’s thing, and it wasn’t making her feel comfortable at all. She had met Gina before, once before, but never on her own, when her daughter had invited her in after a day alone with her. It felt like interrogation or something, and she hadn’t said a word yet. It was the look in her eyes maybe, or just the fact that she was sitting opposite the too, leaning forwards, hands linked together and elbows resting on her knees.
“So what you do today?”
“Just to the beach, you know Weston, it was a nice day.”
“Did you enjoy it Emily?” Her gaze was terrifying; it was almost like Emily had committed a crime by going to the beach with Naomi.
“Umm, yeah… I did, thank you Mrs Campbell.”
“It’s Gina dear.” Her façade disappeared for a little bit, and then returned again as she focused her eyes on Naomi. Their eyes bored deep into each other’s, and Naomi herself could see the small amount of mirth in her eyes. Naomi narrowed her eyes, ready to fight whatever battle was going to start.
“So what did you do?”
“Went to the beach…”
“What did you do at the beach?”
“What do you think? There are only so many things you can do at a beach Mum.”
“How was it for you then Emily? ‘The beach’ Exciting place, hmmm?” The amusement was pretty clear in her voice now, and Emily couldn’t help but chill a little bit as she gradually settled in to the company of Gina. Emily’s face cracked into a bit of a grin and Naomi turned to Emily with a relieved look on her face, but also an expression that said ‘Sorry about her’ - Not that it bothered Emily, it was nice having that kind of parental figure around.
“So, really, what did you get up too?”
“Well, Emily had never been to the beach so-“
“Wait, never been to the beach?” Emily shook her head sadly.
“That’s terrible, anyway carry on love.”
“So we did everything that was typically seaside things to do, you know, ate fish and chips, laid on the beach, played on the arcades, Emily sucked at Time Crisis…”
“I did not! You just wouldn’t let me shoot anyone! You hogged them all!”
Gina smiled happily at her daughter and Emily and loved that Naomi already had someone she could call a friend. It didn’t happen a lot, because Naomi was an only child, she found it difficult to communicate with other people. Her confidence was low and she kept herself to herself. She would go to school, get through her lessons, come home and then do her homework, and that was it. No out of school life like the normal kids did, no social life really and that made Gina grateful that they had moved next door to the Fitch’s, well Emily especially, who had been in the same situation, who just needed someone to be there.
“…But we spent most of the day lying on the beach, the sun was out all day, so it was nice to just lay and not worry about anything…well other than the tide coming in, which happened quite quickly actually.” She laughed and watched as Emily’s face contorted uncomfortably at the memory. After their time in the arcade’s they went back to lie on the beach, the music back in their ears, and their hands linked again, only this time, Naomi’s finger was softly tracing patterns on Emily’s palm. That was, until the tide came in quicker than they though and Emily ended up with a soaking wet feet. She wasn’t best pleased.
“Well it sounds like you had a lovely day, have you eaten dinner?”
“No, we had lunch quite late actually.”
“Well why don’t you two pop upstairs to your room for a bit and I’ll whip something up.”
“Are you sure?”
“Certainly, go on, I’ll bring it up.”
“Thanks Mum.” Naomi said, giving her Mum a quick kiss on the cheek before leading Emily upstairs to her room. As they walked inside, Emily gasped. It was huge. Naomi chuckled a little, she had been doing that an awful lot since she had met Emily, and to be quite honest she loved it. It made her feel liberated or something, she had found something that had made her happy.
”Wow! It’s so big! And a double bed! You’re so lucky!”
“Yeah, I guess…”
“I’ve always shared with Katie, obviously being twins everything is bunched together so we have to share a room, and now coz of all those shitty laws about boys and girls sharing bedrooms, James gets his own, little twat.” Her rant had made Naomi smile the widest she had, ever. Angry Emily was just so cute.
“Oh, and I only get a single bed, because we’ve got such a small room, and even when it’s small she manages to fuck it up even more and now we have no space at all. You know before you came yesterday…” Naomi nodded, an amused smile filling up her face. “I had to tidy her side of the room because she was off fucking her boyfriend, because I wanted it to look nice for you, and then my Dad comes in and says that I should follow Katie’s example and tidy my side better.”
“Well if its any consolation, it looked lovely.” Naomi nodded. And Emily smiled. She gazed around the room, noticing a wall filled with photographs, so full in fact, she couldn’t see any of the blue wallpaper behind it. She walked over to it, running her finger of one of the photos.
“You take photos?” She turned to Naomi, the thoughtful look on her face made Naomi’s knees weaken a little and she had no clue why.
“Yeah, they kinda document my life you know… It’s only landscape, townscape stuff, but I think they have character.” Emily turned back to the wall, moving over a little bit.
“I think they are amazing. Have you ever done portrait? I think they’d be lovely.”
“I’ve never had a model, no ones really known about it apart from my Mum, and now you I guess.” Emily nodded, spotting one photo that she really recognized.
“That’s the lake…”
“Certainly is. My favourite place, couldn’t not take a photo really.”
A knock on the door broke Emily from her reverie and they both turned to the door, watching as Gina carried in a tray, which held two plates both with scrambled egg on toast steaming from them, and two glasses of orange juice.
”I just guessed you liked eggs Emily, so if you don’t just tell me and I’ll go and fix you up something different.”
“No, no Gina, eggs are fine. Thank you so much.” She smiled and took tray off her and placed it on Naomi’s bed carefully. Gina winked at her and walked back out of the door, shutting it behind her. Naomi walked over, taking her plate from the tray and walking over to sit down on her computer chair, Emily did the same, but sat down on the edge of Naomi’s bed.
“So how long have you been taking photos?”
“As long as Mum has known Keiran. It started then, because I wanted to get out of the house, for obvious reasons. I found an old camera in the loft of my house in London, and decided to use it. Got me some fresh air, I found places, not because I was looking for them, but because I found them. I’d explore. Especially when I couldn’t drive and used a bike, I felt adventurous.” Naomi laughed and Emily laughed along also, taking a forkful of egg and piling it into her mouth.
“Here, you’ve got a bit of…” Naomi leaned forward, brushing a small bit of egg from the side of her face. Her hand still, Emily’s eyes following her hand, watching as it convulsed on her skin, almost as if she couldn’t remove it for some reason. Emily’s eyes locked with Naomi’s a sly, almost shy smile look over her face, and all Naomi could do was clear her throat to regain herself, and pull her hand back, not looking Emily in the eye as she continued to eat. Emily did the same, trying her hardest not to let a huge smile creep on to her face, at the thought of Naomi’s defences breaking.
“Thanks…” Emily replied, finishing off her food and placing the plate on the bed beside her. She felt a vibrating in her pocket and groaned as she noticed the word Mum flash across the screen.
“Emily?”
“Mum?”
“Where are you? You should’ve been back from the seaside ages ago.”
“I’m next door Mum, Gina made me some dinner.”
“Made you dinner? Are you being greedy?”
“Greedy? I was hungry!”
“Still, you shouldn’t be taking Mrs Campbell’s food.”
“She said I could! She made it for me Mum!”
“Well, obviously had no choice… Anyway, when will you be coming home? We need you here tomorrow morning because me & your Dad are going out early and we need someone to look after James.”
“Why can’t Kati-“
“She’s out for the night.”
“What?! So it’s ok for her to go out, again, and I have come home because of some stupid thing you and Dad have to go too?”
“Yes Emily, and you will do what I say. I mean it, if you’re not back in less that 15 minutes, you will not see that Naomi girl again, you hear.”
”But Mu-“
“No, 15 minutes Emily.” The line went dead.
”For fucks sake!” Emily shouted, causing Naomi to look over at her with concern.
“My mum wants me home. Katie’s out again, and I have to be there in the morning to look after James.” Naomi nodded solemnly and placed her empty plate back on the tray with Emily’s. Emily made her way out of the door, and down the stairs, watching Naomi walk through to the kitchen and place both plates in the sink, then walk back into the hall where she was pulling her shoes back on.
“Mum! Emily’s going!” Naomi called, and received a ‘Bye Emily!’ back from her, making Emily giggle a little and turn to Naomi with a smile on her face.
“Thank you for today, I had a really great time. The seaside is amazing.”
“Glad you enjoyed it.” Naomi shuffled her feet, she wanted to do something about what she was feeling, but they had only known each other so much as a day, and that would freak Emily out surely. Emily leant forward, shocking Naomi by placing a small kiss on her cheek. This caused butterflies to erupt in Naomi’s stomach and they grew even more so, when Emily pulled her into a hug. Naomi wrapped her arms around Emily’s waist and leant into the embrace. It lasted longer than it should of but neither of the girls cared.
“Oh wait, I’ve got something for you…” Naomi said quickly unwrapping herself from Emily and running up the stairs. AS she came bounding back down she handed a photograph to Emily, a photograph of the lake. It was taken at night and the moon had been reflected on the still waters. Emily turned to Naomi with a sincere smile.
“Are you sure?”
“Absolutely, I’ve got tonnes of them. Something to put on your side of the room, yeah, something that’s all yours.”
“Thank you Nae.” Naomi did a double take at the nickname and nodded with a smile, running her hand in a nervous way across the back of her neck.
“Well I guess I better go, I bet my Mum is waiting at the door with a stopwatch or something.” Both girls laughed and Naomi opened the door for her. She stepped out and began to walk all the way next door, with one more wave, Naomi shut the door, and couldn’t help but turn around and sigh, it wasn’t something that happened to Naomi at all, and now it was happening, it was really hitting her. All of a sudden there was a quick knock on the door. As Naomi gathered herself once again, but as soon as she opened the door, all of her reserves were gone as a small pair of lips were places softly on hers. She didn’t have much time to react, but she certainly knew whom they belonged too. As they broke apart and Naomi opened her eyes, all she spotted was Emily’s retreating back. She closed the door again, this time leaning against it as she registered just what had happened.
“I’m going to bed Mum!” Naomi called through to the front room, her mind still running through the events of the last 5 seconds.
“Ok, Good Night honey!”
“Certainly was…” Naomi sighed and slowly ambled up the stairs to her bed, still in this kind of trance that she could not for the life of her pull out of. She walked into her bedroom, shutting the door softly behind her, as she sat down on her bed and started to take off her clothes, she noticed a glass sitting on her side table, along the rim, sat the light pink gloss of a one Miss Emily Fitch. Oh yes, she was falling, and to be quite honest, she didn’t want anything to stop her.
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“Yea-heh! Go for it!” Cook shouted, clapping his hand in such an entertained way as he watched the two girls kissing like their life depended on it. Their tongues practically intertwined, their bodies pushed against each other in the most sensual way, and the music behind them playing like a soundtrack to their life.
“Leave them alone Cook, for fuck sake.” Effy said in her slightly charming way, a satisfied smile filling up her face as she watched the two girls blend in with the crowd, their hands intertwined like their lips had been before, only this time, their lips were not ferocious, it was soft and loving, and Effy could see the look in both girls eyes as they gazed at each other, the other things in the world not mattering to them at all, the people around them, the music, anyone’s thoughts against what they had. They forgot it, they didn’t even think about it, and by doing that, had found common ground. They were whoever they wanted to be, and nothing was going to stop them.
“But they’re fucking…its two fucking girls Eff! How can I not?! Wahey!” He shouted above the music, dancing off in the two girls direction, looking at Effy with a cheeky smile on his face.