Hello hello ladies and gents(?)...this has been in my head for ages now and I decided to give it a go. It's Naomi/Katie again.
Katie's POV this time. Thought I'd try it. If I really cant manage that I'll go back to third persons POV.
Skins isn't mine. I'm not making any money with it. Bla bla bla.
Tell me what you think :)
"Awe, Katiekins in love with my sister?" Effy teases me and I grin, just shaking my head. What can I say? Obviously I've been enjoying her backside a lot and she is gorgeous. But I don't think I could really fall I love with her. She's got a girlfriend, for starters. Oh and the age difference. It's what? Five years? Usually that's not a lot but people would stare because I'm under age. "You could be her bubblegum bitch!"
"Shit Ems, I'm so going to flunk German. With my grades in maths and physics there's no chance I'll get my A-Levels! You need to fucking help me." That's Katie Fitch, begging her sister to save her life, again. Who is this Katie you ask? That's me.
Katie, 17 years old, from London. Last year of college.
There's a few things I'm really good at and some that I'm really not. Like, I can pretty much explain and tell you the whole history known to men and argue about which culture's got the most important literature but German? Who the hell chooses this? Again, that's me.
Thought that's quite a new challenge, right? And who doesn't like being challenged. Oh, right, that's me again.
Because as sad as it is, something horrible happened before I was able to soak up the language. I, it's really hard to talk about it, yeah? Well, okay. I became interested in other stuff. Or, to formulate it in my dad's words; he lost me to puberty.
I was always special. Didn't like sitting in school and learning boring stuff, I'd rather meet my mates outside the school and fuck off to get wasted. Somehow I always managed to hold my grades high enough I wouldn't fail. Until now.
Emily isn't helping much either. She's trying on her fifth outfit. I bet she's meeting this guy she likes this week. J.D. or something.
Pretty rude, my sister waltzing in my room, trying my clothes on, using my make up and all that while she's ignoring my pleading for her help? Bitch.
"EMILY!" I cant do anything but yell at her when she gets like this.
She turns her stupid head to me and smiles her most innocent smile. With the big eyes and sad look. Like that's working on me. I mean, I invented the look. "Stop that Bambi shit and help me with German."
She's laughing at me.
When she gets herself back together she shakes her head and sputters. "No way. You called me a grammar Hitler the last time I tried to help you!" A grin forms on my lips because that was a little funny. She had thrown her book at me and hadn't stopped crying for two days after I called her that. She is a pain when she gets all nerdy on me.
Wasn't my fault.
"Why don't you ask Panda? Her family is from Germany, she's good. She'll help you because you need a native talking person. You don't understand the rules." She explains and I would really like to throw something at her smug face.
I think she realized it because she's out of my room in a flash. Good. Smart arse. I really need a fag and maybe, just maybe it isn't a bad idea. I could ask Panda. But more than an hour with that girl brings me to the edge of committing murder. She is really quirky. Like, squirrel on mdma quirky.
I like to have fun and go out and all but Pandora is really something else. She is Effy's cousin though. The complete opposite and a really good friend of mine. Sadly I cant ask her because she'd walk away without talking to me for weeks if I did. She hates school stuff. Somehow her grades always did shine though, and her A-Levels were amazing. I think it's got to do with her having a note from her psychiatry for everything. And she is a fucking genius. She reads something and it's saved in her head forever. I do that too, but sadly I learn stuff by rote. It's there for the next days and gets me my grades but after that I forget it. She's still not sure what she wants to study so she didn't enrol in university yet. Gap year. Well, that's what she's saying. She is having the time of her life, partying.
Walking to Panda's isn't a long walk. I'm seeing her house already, she lives about five minutes away. I knock on the door and take a surprised step back as it opens. I come face to face with a bouncy Pandora and she reaches for me, hugging the air out of me.
I really cant stand this.
Untangling myself, I want to tell why I'm here but she wont let me, she's dragging me inside and I have to focus on my feet to keep up and stop myself from falling. She opens the garden door and pushes me outside.
Oh my god.
I'm standing in front of about thirty people and they are staring at me.
No wonder. I look a right mess. Haven't had time to style myself or refresh my make up. My hair is in a pony tail, I'm wearing baggy trousers, chucks and a tank top. Probably look like a homeless person selling my goods for cracks.
"Look mum! A Fitch made it." Please shoot me. Right now. "Which one are you?" I turn to Panda, she's looking like I made her day, really beaming. And I think it's her birthday, if the birthday banners are anything to go by.
I cant kill her now. Even if she never remembers who I am. It's not like there's ten of us. Or like we are twins.
"It's the youngest, isn't it darling?" A dark haired woman asks with a tight smile. I guess I really am under dressed. I'm not wearing a fucking pyjama.
They do. Pyjamas. In mid august. Mid day.
I remember that I can actually speak when I hear a chuckle to my right. Effy with her sister, maybe. "No, I am Katie. I'm sorry I didn't want to intrude. I should go." I try to make my escape and the mum is pretty pleased about that but some people don't want me to leave this hell.
Effy and her sister, or someone else, I don't remember who she is.
"Now that Katie's here she should stay. Panda invited her, didn't you Panda-pops?" I see Panda's ponytails bounce from the corner of my eye as I stare Effy down. She only smiles sweetly at me.
I want her to drop dead.
"Well then, make yourself at home." I swear this woman is having a stroke. This cant be her usual smiling face.
But at least the attention isn't on me any more and I can march up to Effy and kill her. I don't get the chance because my hand is grabbed and I'm being dragged off by Pandora again. She walks us around the house into a shed and pushes me inside before closing the door.
I'm hit by a cloud of smoke and let a smile escape my lips. That's more like it.
"Katiekins!" Cook's voice booms through the small shed and I'm picked up and twirled around in his strong arms. He's always soooo loud.
I've seen him a couple times and we have some funny memories of Effy's party's but other than that I don't really know him. He's older, and dropped out of school years ago. I think he's in his early twenties? He's always around the blonde girl, Effy's cousin or sister or whatever she is. That's all I know.
I tell him me to let me down and hit his shoulder but I think my laughter makes him continue.
"Let the girl down, James." The blonde girl orders and he obeys like a good dog .
I rearrange my ponytail and look around to see who else is here. I know Effy, Panda, Cook and the blonde girl. Then there's a bloke with a guitar and a Spliff in his mouth, pretty fit, a girl with long brown hair and another blonde girl sitting very close to the cousin/sister.
"Do you want vodka, rum, tequila or beer?" Blonde girl asks and I stare at her. She's balancing the bottles in her arms like a pro and has a lazy drunk smile on her face. She looks happy that she's having all the bottles. Really cute.
She's beautiful.
"Oi! Everyone this is Katie Fitch. Second youngest child of Rob Fitch." Cook introduces me and I grin, waving. "Katie, you know Pandora and Effy. I am James Cook but I bet you wouldn't forget my handsome cock, ever." I push him. Haven't seen his cock! And I don't plan to. Ever!
"Ha! Good girl. Always liked you. This is Freddy, my best mate. Our bartender over there is Naomi Campbell, Effy's sister with her girlfriend Lana. And that's Karen, Freddy's sister."
Girlfriend. That's why she's almost sitting on Naomi's bottle filled lap.
Everyone says their hello's and suddenly the music is turned up again and people are dancing or chatting. Thank god not a long welcome.
Naomi, now I know her name again, is pretty annoyed by said girlfriend. She's hissing something at her and walks over to me, bottles still balancing in her arms.
"Hey Fitch. Haven't seen you in a while." I really try to remember what she's talking about but I have no idea. I'm not even sure if she's talking about a special day or place because she looks like she's ready to fly away. Had a few drink this girl. I think she like her liquor.
"Yeah. Where have you been?" I cant go wrong with that, can I ? Nooo, not at all. Not when she's laughing like this because because of me. Her eyes shine and she's thrown her head back, almost letting her bottles fall.
When she's got herself calmed down she grins, shrugging her shoulders. The movement makes me look her over more closely. Her skin is tanned, a bright contrast to her blonde dyed hair and there is a fresh tattoo across her shoulder to her collarbone. It's still slightly crusty.
"Travelled a bit around. Spend my university money on educative learning by doing." She smirked cheekily and I don't think I've seen anyone look more beautiful. Ever.
She looks like she's just remembered something and laughs again. "Sorry. I Actually came over to make you a drink." She squints at me and points her finger somewhere above my head. "Dont think you're old enough though. You're like, tiny."
I gasp and swat her hand away which started patting my head. "I'm seventeen, thanks very much. Bitch. At least I'm not thirty!" Her jaw falls open and she stares at me, clearly offended. I'm about to apologize when her laughter booms through the walls again.
"Katie Katie Katie. Du bist lustig." There! That's what I meant. She actually uses the language without the typical British pronouncing or accent. I think she lived in Germany until she was twelve or something, before her mother married Effy's dad.
Okay, maybe I should stop looking at her like this because she's not longer laughing, she's scowling. "I didn't insult you. I said you are funny. No need to look like I kicked you. I'm not thirty! I'm turning twenty-two in October. So, you wanna drink something or are you gonna stand here and watch me for the next hours?"
What? She saw me staring? Well, I wasn't staring. I just tried to remember who she is. Nothing wrong about that. Is there?
"Vodka, please." She thrusts a cup and bottle in my arms and suddenly I'm standing alone.
She left. That was weird. My eyes follow her and I cant help myself, I cant avert my eyes from her back. God, she's got a nice back.
I hear someone laugh to my right and when I turn around I'm grabbed and pulled into Effy's lap. She's a real doll, sadly she doesn't care that much about friends. When I meet her, she's really lovely but she never calls or arranges to meet me.
"Katie, you really shouldn't be eye-fucking my sister when her girlfriend's watching." She whispers in my ear with a chuckle. Shit. I didn't eye-fuck her, did I? I was just appreciating her backside.
I turn around to look into Effy's magnificent eyes. She laughs and hugs me again. "You're too cute Katiekins but what the fuck are you doing here? No way you wanted to be a guest."
I really cant lie to her. I never could. It was years ago on the playground that I met her. I was playing with my siblings and she was with her siblings too, but they were drinking. I walked over to her and had my first beer, first Spliff, first hang over and was grounded for the first time ever.
"Spit it out, Katikins." Effy coos and I smile. Cant really keep shit from Effy. She got something that makes me always spill whatever is in my head. "All right. I got German and I really, really need help or I'll never get my A-Levels." "You can fail a class."
Wow Effy, thanks, didn't know that. I roll my eyes at her.
"I know that. But there's maths and physics. No way I'll pass. I really need help in German. And not just for a few hours until the next quiz, I need help through the whole year to pass." She nods and lights a fag.
I reach for it with a smirk and she laughs, lighting another one for herself. "Cant Emily help?" "Of course she could but she's my annoying, fifteen year old teenage sister, we'd kill each other."
Effy met Emily a few times but I don't think they'll be great friends or anything. Emily is more, lets say, normal. I like the misfits, people with faults and edges whereas Emily really likes routine and calmness.
"I'd say you, my lovely friend, are fucked." I pout. Suddenly Effy's eyes grow wide. She's got a soft spot for me. Always did. "No, no. No Kay. Forget it." I knew she wouldn't be caught dead tutoring me. Tutoring anyone really.
I sigh and fill the cup with Vodka, downing it depressively. I don't why I am disappointed, I guess I just am. Her hugging me doesn't help the matter, bitch. I stand up and walk to Naomi who's in a gross make out session with her girlfriend.
"Naomi? Where is the tequila?" I ask but she doesn't stop or acknowledge my presents. "Hello? You deaf?" Her girlfriend tears her lips away from Naomi's, glaring at me.
I glare back.
"What do you want, kid? Be a good girl and let the grown ups talk, yeah?" God. You have really no idea what it takes me right now not to jump over the table and throw her head against it.
Repeatedly.
Apparently I'm not the only one because Naomi pushes her shoulder, glaring. "Dont be a bitch." Slowly she turns her head to me and I'm met with ice cold eyes.
She didn't look at me like this earlier.
All of a sudden I have no idea what I wanted to say. She's watching me intently like I did something really horrible. That's not a nice feeling when you know how different her eyes looked at me before, whatever changed, happened.
"Uh." I'm left fucking speechless. Amazing. She's raising her brow, challenging me to say something or maybe she's making fun of me? There is a smirk playing on her lips. Fuck. What the fuck did I do? She's just wasted. She doesn't really hate me. Right?
"If you want to stand here and stare at me, that's okay too." She chuckles and I really want to die. Suddenly I feel someone's hand around my back and smell lavender, Effy. "Stop acting like a twat. She wanted to ask you for German lessons." I did not! At least there's no way she'll do it. She doesn't really like me and I bet she's already planning her next trip across the world.
"How bad is her German?" Yeah she could go to Australia and jump around with kangaroos. "I don't know but she says this will be a problem for some time to come." Wait, what? I look to Naomi and see that she's deeply in thought. Oh fuck. I think she is actually considering it.
She looks at me with a bored expression. "Look, if you want to do this you really need to think about it. I'm a native speaker, and I never learned it by some stupid rules or grammar lessons. I learned it as a child. I can teach you, but it will take time and I wont be taking any shit from you. Also you cant expect me to rattle off why something is this or that way, it just is. I never had any grammar lessons so I wont be able to explain it to you. My way or no way." I think I'm going to die.
No really, if Lana's look could, I'd be dead by now. She's shooting daggers at me. Bitch.
"Sounds good. I'm not the normal student. I cant sit through boring shit." Lana actually jumps off the sofa and she's marching out of the shed. Well, that was rude. But no one pays any attention to her, they look at me. Great. I think I need to say something else because Naomi and Effy are looking at me in amusement. "My dad will pay you. Just tell him how much you want." She grins. Good, I like that better than the scowl.
"All right. Just come to mine after college tomorrow." She grabs a pen and a post aid from the table, writing her number on it. That's cute. So retro. Everyone else would've demanded to see my phone and saved their number.
She hands me the note and I see her addressee written on it as well. "Cool." I nod. With a grin she hands me the tequila and winks at me. Cheeky bitch! She heard me when I walked over, she just decided to ignore me. When she sees my glare she laughs. "Gotta see what's crawled up Lana's arse. Be back later." And with that, Naomi was out of the door, rolling her hips way more than earlier and I bite my lip.
"Awe, Katiekins in love with my sister?" Effy teases me and I grin, just shaking my head. What can I say? Obviously I've been enjoying her backside a lot and she is gorgeous. But I don't think I could really fall I love with her. She's got a girlfriend, for starters. Oh and the age difference. It's what? Five years? Usually that's not a lot but people would stare because I'm under age.
"No! She's your sister!" I declare, not very convincing and Effy smirks. "Not by blood. Besides, she's not your sister. You could be her bubblegum bitch." Ugh. "Just give me the fucking Spliff."