Well, here's a new story. I finally decided to get off my ass and finish Kismet, but it's been so long since I've written anything that I was having issues. I thought writing something new might be a better idea to get me in the writing mode, which is why you are reading this.

This essentially picks up in the fall after season 4 ended except Naomi never went to Roundview with the gang. Basically everything else from the show happened though.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Skins characters.

Chapter 1

"Dammit Eff, stop running me into every fuckin' wall!" Katie shouted while trying to push the heavy couch back toward the smirking brunette.

"Woops," Effy said as she dropped her end to the floor.

Katie groaned as she fell toward the couch, nearly toppling headfirst onto it. "Bitch."

"Play nice," Effy heard a husky voice say from behind a large box that was nearly as big as the girl that was carrying it.

"Watch out Em, some tit left a couch in the middle of the hall," Effy warned.

Katie rolled her eyes and watched her sister drop the box beside Effy.

"I'm going to go get another box," Emily said, crossing her arms. "Can you two get this out of the hall?"

"Sure thing," Effy said with a smile before turning to Katie. "Well why are you just sitting there?"

Katie scoffed and Emily started walking away, laughing.

"Oh yeah, great fucking place for that," Katie heard a caustic voice say from behind her and she turned around to see a blonde girl glaring at her with icy blue eyes.

"Sorry about that," Effy nonchalantly said. "Katie here kept running into things and then she got tired and decided to take a break."

"Like hell I did!" Katie said, shoving her friend.

The blonde huffed and squeezed between the couch and the wall, continuing her journey down the hall while mumbling a few choice words and scowling back at the other two girls.

"It was a pleasure meeting you too," Katie shouted down the hall before turning to Effy. "What a bitch."

Effy just smiled and shrugged. "Let's get this in."

"Don't run me into anything this time, yeah?" Katie requested.

The two struggled with the heavy object for a few minutes, but finally managed to maneuver the thing through the door and into the place they would be calling home for at least the next year. After shoving the couch against the wall, Katie wiped the sweat that had started to appear on her forehead and then she took a moment to look around.

"It's kind of small," she noted.

"What did you expect?" her sister asked, entering through the open door, carrying one box and kicking another inside. "It's a dorm; they're not exactly known for being spacious."

"Yeah, but…" Katie paused and looked around. "Fuck. I don't know if I can live with you two in a place this small."

Effy smirked. "You could always move out and live with two strangers."

Katie frowned and crossed her arms over her chest. "I was only joking."

Emily caught Effy's eye and returned her smirk. Despite all her sister's complaining and bravado, they both knew she would never move out to live by herself or with anyone else. Katie would never willingly admit it, but she would feel lost without her sister and best friend and they both knew it.

"C'mon," Emily said as she grabbed her sister's hand and pulled her off the couch. "Help me bring up some more boxes."

"Do I have to?" Katie whined.

Emily playfully shoved Katie towards the door. "Don't be such a whiney ass."

"Remind my why we told dad not to come," Katie said, sighing.

"Because that would mean that mom and James would come," replied Emily.

Katie shrugged. "Point made."

Emily laughed lightly and followed her sister out of the room. Emily and Katie had said their goodbyes to their family that morning before heading to university on their own. Emily would have loved the extra help, but neither of them wanted the embarrassment of Jenna fussing over them and James was just a pervy little bastard that they couldn't trust around other human beings. Emily shuddered to think how he would react to all the scantily clad women running around the campus. Yeah, leaving them at home was definitely a good idea even if they had to do a little extra work.

Emily walked into the fresh air, closing her eyes and taking a deep breath before she followed her sister to her car. They had loaded everything into Effy's and Katie's cars since Emily's vehicle didn't exactly hold very much.

"I still can't believe you brought that thing with you," said Katie, rolling her eyes as she walked by.

Emily couldn't help but grin. She had fallen in love with the orange moped the instant she saw it and worked over the summer to buy it. Katie hated it, though, and refused to ever get on it despite the numerous times Emily had tried to get her to.

"Why wouldn't I?" Emily asked.

"You just look like such a lesbian on it," replied Katie.

Emily flushed and nervously tucked a lock of hair behind her ear. "I think there's only one box left in your car."

Katie lugged the box out and quickly dropped it. "Shit."

"Language," Effy said, sneaking up behind Emily and causing her to jump slightly.

Effy was something that Emily didn't know if she'd ever get used to; sometimes she jokingly wondered if she was even human. Half the time she just seemed to pop up out of nowhere and Emily was convinced she could read minds. The first time she saw her, Emily wondered if the other girl was even real, but she quickly learned that Effy was very real and seemed to have that weird effect on everyone. Even Katie had made a complete ass out of herself trying too hard to impress Effy on their first day of college.

"I'll get that one," Emily said taking pity on her sister. "You can start unpacking Effy's car."

"Here," Effy said, throwing Katie her keys before looking at Emily. "Need a hand?"

"No," Emily said, lifting the box, which nearly knocked the wind out of her. Okay, so the box was kind of heavy. "It's fine; I've got it."

Effy shrugged and joined Katie, leaving Emily to struggle with the box. Thankfully, a girl held the door open for her when she entered the building and a guy held the elevator open so she didn't have to drop the box to push the button, which was good because she didn't know if she'd be able to lift it again if she had to set it down.

"Do you need any help with that?" the guy asked.

"No thanks," Emily said, trying lift the box a bit higher to get a better grip.

The guy nodded and the elevator stopped on the third floor to let him off before going up one more floor to Emily's stop.

"Jesus," Emily said to herself, struggling with the box and making a mental note to let people help her when they offered.

Emily felt like she was losing her grip on the box when the doors slid open. She managed to take two steps into the hall before slamming into something very solid.

"Fuck," she said as the box flew out of her arms and landed with a thud to her left. Then she noticed the blonde lying on her back on the floor in front of her. "Shit, I'm so sorry."

"Can't anyone watch where they're fucking going?" the blonde yelled, which caused several people to stare in their direction.

"Are you okay?" Emily asked, reaching a hand out to help her up.

The blonde ignored her hand and got up herself. "Wonderful. I always love it when people slam boxes into me."

"It's not like I meant to do it," Emily said, some anger entering her voice.

"Well I guess everything is okay then," the blonde sarcastically said before taking a few steps to the waiting elevator.

"You know, you don't have to be such a bitch about it," Emily said, scowling, her voice rising a bit. "I said I was sorry."

The blonde responded by flipping her off as the doors closed and Emily was left to glare at the doors. After a moment, she shook her head, trying to get those piercing blue, hate filled eyes out of her mind. She was used to bitchy girls—Katie Fitch was her sister after all—but that was a whole new level of anger and hostility. Emily couldn't blame the girl for being angry, but she didn't have to act like that.

After a few moments, the elevator doors opened again and she heard her sister laughing.

"Why are you standing in the hall?" Katie asked upon seeing her sister.

"I dropped the box," replied Emily, omitting the fact that she'd dropped it because she slammed it into someone.

"Here," Effy said, grabbing the suitcase out of Katie's hands. "Katie can help you."

"C'mon," Emily said, grabbing one side of the box and waiting for her sister to grab the other, which Katie reluctantly did with a sigh.

It was definitely much easier with the two of them doing it together and Emily was just thankful that it was a box full of books so nothing would have broke when it fell. Although, she made a second mental note to not pack all her books in one box; that had definitely not been one of her smarter ideas.

The two finally managed to get the box into their room where they found Effy sitting on the couch looking relaxed.

Effy smiled. "About time."

Katie scoffed. "Well, you could have helped us if you were so worried about the time."

Effy just shrugged and got up, walking just outside the door and waiting on the other two. Katie just shook her head in exasperation while Emily held back a laugh. No one got under her sister's skin like Effy Stonem and it always amused Emily. Katie was always so used to being the one throwing out the insults and Effy was the first person that threw them right back at her.

"Come on," Katie instructed and Emily did as she was told and followed her sister out the door.

"Jesus, there's two of them," she heard the blonde from earlier mutter as she walked by.

Emily scowled and looked over to see the same look on her sister.

"I hate that bitch," Katie said before turning on her heel and following Effy toward the elevator.

Emily smirked; it looked like she wasn't the only one that had a run in with the blonde.

"You have to come," Katie said, crossing her arms.

Emily rolled her eyes. "No I don't."

Emily could hear the music and laughing; the campus seemed to be one big party tonight. Katie wanted to go out and join them and seemed hell bent and dragging Emily along as well.

"C'mon Em!" Katie begged.

"I want to unpack my stuff," replied Emily.

"Don't be so fucking boring," Katie said, putting her hands on her hips. "There are probably some fit guys out there."

"You wouldn't want to miss that," Effy said, looking at Emily and getting that all knowing look in her eyes.

"Fine," Emily said, turning her eyes to her sister.

"Great," Katie happily said. "Let's find you something to wear."

Emily could see Effy sigh a bit and shake her head. "What?"

"Nothing," Effy said with a shrug.

"Get in here," Katie hollered from the bedroom.

Emily opened her mouth to say something else to Effy, but decided against it. Instead, she followed her sister into the bedroom and was immediately assaulted by a handful of clothes. Emily looked at the clothes: a gray tank top, a pair of jeans, and a small, black cardigan. Emily was just happy that it came from her own closet and not her sister's since Katie had an unnatural love of leopard print.

"Put that on and then Effy can fix your makeup," Katie commanded.

Emily stripped off her clothes and started putting on the ones that Katie handed her. She was surprised that Katie would pick these clothes since it was something she was likely to wear anyway, but she figured Katie just didn't want to spend the next thirty minutes arguing about it when there were hot guys outside to be flirted with.

"Eff, will you come do her makeup?" Katie asked as she walked through the small hall and then hollered back to Emily. "I'm heading down; find me when you're out there."

"Okay," replied Emily.

"Are you ever going to tell her," Effy quietly said, which caused Emily to jump since she never even heard her coming into the room.

"Tell her what?" Emily asked, pulling the tank top over her head.

Effy cocked her head and Emily felt like her friend's eyes could see right through her. She didn't know how the brunette did it, but whenever she looked at people, Emily always felt like the other girl could see every bit of them. It was more than a little unnerving to have Effy staring at her. Instead of saying anything else, though, Effy sat Emily down on her bed to do her makeup.

"What do you think?" Effy asked, finishing up.

Emily just shrugged and fidgeted with her clothes.

"Don't worry," Effy said, coming up behind Emily and staring at her in the mirror. "You're beautiful."

Emily gave a sad smile.

"Maybe one day you'll actually believe me," Effy said, starting to talk away.

Emily laughed. "Doubtful."

"Now come on or all the hot guys will be taken," Effy said, turning around and winking.

Emily blushed. Fucking Effy Stonem and her all knowing brain.

The two went outside where there was already a massive number of people even though it was still pretty early.

"Jesus, it's not going to be like this every weekend, is it?" Emily asked.

"No," Effy replied. "I heard they just let it slide the first weekend and last weekend of the semester."

Emily looked around. "Do you see Katie?"

"Over there," Effy said, pointing to Katie who was surrounded by a group of guys.

"Of course," Emily said, rolling her eyes. "Think we should go over there? Eff? Effy?"

Emily looked over her should and then looked around the crowd, but her friend had disappeared.

"I swear to god, I'm going to put a bell on her," Emily said to herself.

Emily sighed and started making her way through the crowd, toward her sister. Several people bumped into her, but no one really seemed to notice. Eventually, she elbowed her way through, catching her sister's eye as she approached.

"What took you so long," Katie demanded to know.

Emily shrugged and then heard one of the guys say something about always wanting to be with twins, which made her roll her eyes. Why were they always so predictable?

"Want to dance?" one of the guys asked Katie.

"Here," Katie said, handing Emily her drink before walking away with the guy.

"So—" one of the guys started saying.

"No," Emily replied before he had a chance to continue.

With that, she tried making her way back through the crowd. She managed to get out virtually unscathed until she turned around the corner of the building and slammed into someone, spilling Katie's drink all over herself.

"You've got to be joking," Emily said, seeing the blonde hair and glaring blue eyes from earlier.

"Sorry," the blonde said, not really sounding at all sorry about it.

"Can't anyone watch where they're fucking going?" Emily said, mocking the blonde's statement from earlier.

"Cute," the other girl said, rolling her eyes.

"At least when I said I was sorry, I actually meant it," Emily said, staring at the blonde.

She crossed her arms. "And how do you know I didn't."

Emily just laughed.

"Okay fine, I didn't," said the blonde. "Consider it payback for earlier."

With that, she walked away and left Emily standing there, wondering what had just happened. Then she remembered she had alcohol all over her tank top and jeans and she sighed loudly.

"Great," she whispered to herself.

"You okay?" Effy's voice sounded behind her.

"Lovely," Emily lied.

Effy walked around Emily and looked at her soaked clothing. "C'mon."

Effy took Emily's hand and walked her to their dorm without saying another world. When they were in their room, Effy walked to Emily's closet and pulled out a t-shirt and another pair of jeans.

"Here," Effy said, handing the clothes over.

Emily threw the clothes on the bed beside of her and pulled her top and pants off. She could feel Effy's eyes on her the whole time and it was making her nervous.

"What?" she asked as she pulled the new pair of jeans on.

Effy shrugged nonchalantly. "You know you can talk to me, right?"

"What about?" Emily asked, turning around.

"You know what," replied Effy

Emily sighed. "I don't want to talk about it."

"So you're admitting there's something to talk about?" Effy asked.

Emily laughed. "I walked right into that one, didn't I?"

"Yes," Effy agreed. "I want you to listen to me and don't interrupt. Katie loves you—"

"I know that," replied Emily.

Effy raised her eyebrow. "I told you not to interrupt."

"Sorry," Emily said sheepishly.

"Katie loves you and, whether you believe it or not, will always love you," Effy continued. "No matter who or what you are. I know you think she won't and that's why you hide yourself from the world. Stop letting her walk all over you just because you think if you stand up to her, she won't love you anymore."

"When did you get so wise?" joked Emily, trying to not show that Effy's words had affected her.

"I've always been this wise," Effy said back before standing up and crossing the room, stopping right in front of Emily. "Stop fighting who you are."

"How do you know who I am?" Emily asked.

Effy smirked. "Because I see you."

Emily looked down, suddenly very aware of the fact that she was standing there in her bra.

"So who was the blonde?" Effy asked, taking a few steps back.

"I don't know," Emily replied. "Earlier today I accidently knocked her down and then I bumped into her again, spilling Katie's drink all over me. She's kind of a raving bitch."

"She lives three rooms over," Effy informed. "Maybe you'll run into her again."

Emily laughed. "Why would I want to do that?"

Effy smirked. "Because she may be a bitch, but she's an incredibly attractive bitch."

"I didn't notice," Emily said as she pulled her t-shirt on.

"You might want to next time," Effy said with a wink.

So apparently I can't have the girls meet without one of them hurting the other. I must note that I am American and I have no idea how universities are in England so…just go with it.

Let me know what you think since I'm kind of a feedback whore and nothing makes me happier than to read your comments (sad but true).