Hi Everyone. This is my first HollyOaks story and comes from a prolonged period of thesis procrastination when I watched one particular storyline from beginning to end (or as much as I could) on youtube (sorry can't be more specific yet = spoilers). Since then have had this story rattling around in my head and finally decided to write it up. Hope you enjoy it! This is a very short opener and I've always seen it in my head as being one of those post-credit clips that HO has. If you have a minute please leave a review - would love to know what people think.
1. Nothing Good
January 5th 2015, 2.13am
Frankie's mobile pulsed for the second time in the darkness of her bedroom, briefly illuminating her bedside table before the scene faded to darkness once again. The visual change did not affect her though and, with its silence mode activated, the phone's activity caused no disturbance. However, the silence of the room was shattered a few seconds later by the sound of the land line, which also sat on Frankie's bedside table, ringing. Frankie automatically and unconsciously reached over to try to silence the source of the sound, only to be jolted into sudden and uneasy wakefulness by the realisation that it was the phone causing it, and the terrible thought that nothing good ever came from phone calls in the middle of the night. Her fears confirmed when, after picking up the receiver with slightly trembling hands, she heard the voice on the other end. "What is it?" she demanded, panicked, as she heard the unmistakeable sound of someone trying to speak through barely controlled sobs. "What's wrong?" She felt Jack stirring next to her as she continued, desperately trying to control her panic, "Sweetheart, you need to calm down, I can't understand you….Oh love, what's happened?"