A Silver Lining

Summary:
Completely AU Emily and Naomi have been best friends since they were in primary school, but with Katie's constant nagging at Emily over getting a boyfriend, Emily decides she's had enough, what happens when things go wrong and she finds something totally unexpected.

My first story all reviews are welcome, constructive criticism is welcome but please be respectful. This was meant to be a short one-shot but it has quickly evolved into a short story.

Chapter One

"For gods sake Emily how do you think it makes me look when everyone sees you walking around with that total bitch?"

Katie was currently deep into another one of her long winded rants about Naomi again. She opened the door to her and Emily's bedroom and walked in

"I mean I wouldn't mind you hanging out with her but have you seen how she dresses, it's embarrassing really"

Emily rolled her eyes at her sister and followed her into their room

"Katie, she's been my best friend since primary school"

Emily could feel the anger start to build up within her again at her sister

"Yeah well, it's still kinda sad that she's the only person you hang around with, I mean you've never even had a boyfriend, how sad is that?"

Emily closed her eyes and said tightly

"Katie have you ever thought that I might not want a boyfriend right now?"

Katie turned around and gave her a confused look

"What the hell, why not, you're a Fitch, a Fit Fitch why wouldn't you want a boyfriend?"

Emily once again rolled her eyes,

"Maybe I want to concentrate on getting my AS levels instead of getting an STI"

Katie fixed her world famous Fitch glare on Emily, Emily shrunk nervously underneath the scrutiny. Katie started to get ready for bed

"Very funny, but soon enough everyone's going to start to think you and her are together, and even I'm not going to be able stop them from talking"

With that Katie turned off the light and got into bed, leaving Emily standing in the middle of the room Katie's words rattling through her head.

Emily had had Katie's words running through her mind all night, she had been in serious thought, what if Katie's right, I'm 17 and I've never even been kissed. She'd never really noticed before, taking to tuning Katie out when she started to rant about Naomi, or when she was talking about setting her up with some people from the Football Club, but all of what Katie had been saying had been right, she only hanged around with Naomi and she'd never had a boyfriend. Her thoughts were interrupted when she heard someone yelling her name,

"Emily, Emily"

She turned around and saw Naomi biking up the road towards her, as she got closer Emily started to smile and took a small step to the edge of the sidewalk. Naomi stopped next to her and dismounted from her bike and they started to walk to the bike sheds around the back of the college, Naomi pushing her bike along.

"Hey"

"Hi"

"So you didn't answer my text last night"

They had walked to the bike shed around the back of the college

"Oh, sorry about that, my phone died and Katie started to give me the usual rant again"

Naomi nodded in understanding

"The usual?"

Emily nodded

"Yep"

Naomi finished locking her bike up and looked at Emily, she could see that something was wrong, this happened nearly every time that Katie decided that Emily wasn't good enough to be her sister, sometimes she wishes that she could just slap Katie but because Emily was so nice she had been forbidden to do anything to her. So now it was again up to her to cheer Emily up.

"So if you had read my text last night it would have told you that I've been invited to a party after school today and I was hoping that we could skip the Friday night movie and we could go"

they had started to walk to the entrance of the college again, Naomi looked over at Emily, she had a vacant look on her face

"Hellooo!"

waving her hand in front of her face. Emily jumped in surprise and looked over at Naomi in confusion

"What"

Naomi sighed

"Party, Tonight, You, Me"

Emily started to nod,

"Yeah course"

"Right then meet me at mine at 8"

The school bell rang through the hallway and Naomi started to walk off leaving Emily to stew in her thoughts.

Emily

I hadn't been able to concentrate all day, with Katie's words resounding through my thoughts and the fact that me and Naomi were going to a party tonight, I had decided that I had had enough, I was sick and tired of constantly getting put down by Katie for not being like her, so I had made a decision, tonight was the night, I would stop being so uptight and start being a little bit more free. I had arrived home to find a note on the kitchen table top, it was from Katie, informing me that she wouldn't be home tonight as she was staying with Danny and that I was to cover for her with mum and dad.

"Typical"

She always does this without consulting me, she just assumes that I haven't got anything better to do tonight but sit around and tell mum and dad that she's at a friend's house. A thought suddenly popped into my head, tough luck Katie because this was the new Emily, and she was going to go to that party tonight. I quickly ran up the stairs excited to get started on the outfit that I was going to be wearing tonight.

So there, the first chapter of my first story, reviews welcome, should I continue? I do have another chapter written and I know what the story line is. If you think I should continue then I wouldn't be able to write any more until at least the 22nd of June as that's when my exams end.

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